There was never any reason to be complacent about the end of legal abortion, nor should we think that the impact of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling will be muted.
Scott Lemieux
Scott Lemieux is a political science professor at the University of Washington. He writes for the blog Lawyers, Guns & Money. Follow @lemieuxlgm
Posted inLaw and Justice
Justice Alito’s Bad-Faith Appeals to Majority Rule
The Supreme Court has eviscerated the ability for a majority of citizens to elect the representatives they want and have their will enacted.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Abortion Will Not Be Sent Back to the States
Republican jurists invoke democracy in preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, but democracy functionally doesn’t exist in much of the country.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Even Conservative Judges Haven’t Shot Down Vaccine Mandates
That’s because there’s over a century of jurisprudence confirming their legality.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Wait a Minute, Could John Roberts Block All of This?
How the Supreme Court might frustrate the effort to use statutory authority to advance a progressive agenda, and why the next president should follow through anyway
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Split Decision at the Supreme Court—Which Might Not Be Split for Long
The justices deny relief from gerrymandering, and hold up the citizenship question on the census … for now.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Indefensible Electoral College
Despite its deep-seated problems, ditching the Electoral College is easier said than done. For now, Democrats should emphasize that Trump was not the people’s choice.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
On Election Day, a Stark Choice When It Comes to Policy
Policy issues have drawn remarkably little notice in this sensation-driven election, but the two candidates’ platforms are as starkly divergent as they have been in a generation.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
North Carolina’s Fragile Voting Rights Victory
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that rejected voting restrictions in North Carolina only because the Court’s current 4-4 split left the justices evenly divided. The stalemate underscores how the future of voting rights hangs on the high court’s composition.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Public Option Would Fix Health Insurance Marketplace
Aetna is one of more than a dozen insurers abandoning the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, a move that adds urgency to progressive calls for a public option.