For decades, only social conservatives made the courts a make-or-break voting issue. Can liberals now up their game and win the war?
Simon Lazarus
Simon Lazarus is a lawyer, former White House domestic policy staffer for President Jimmy Carter, and a writer on the Supreme Court’s handling of legal checks on corporate power and other legal issues.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Here’s How Democrats Can Expose What Kavanaugh Threatens
Highlight his belief in unchecked presidential power, and the danger it poses to the ACA and the Mueller investigation.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Did the Supreme Court Just Gut the New Deal?
Monday’s ruling banning employee class-action suits could open the door to destroying non-union workers’ rights.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Scalia Problem: It Wasn’t Originalism or Textualism — It Was Trumpism
A review of Richard L. Hasen’s The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court Case That Could ‘Overturn the Heart of the New Deal’
And though the Court will rule before July, hardly anyone has noticed it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Don’t Just Whack Wells Fargo’s CEO
Target his highest enabler: The Supreme Court.
Posted inFeatures
The Next War Over the Courts
Conservatives are already fired up about Obama’s judicial nominations. Is the White House prepared for the fight?
Posted inArticle
Will Congress Rebuff the Supreme Court’s Anti-Consumer Activism?
The Court’s campaign against individual court enforcement of consumer, employee, retiree, and other statutory protections has been a secret hiding in plain sight for the last four decades. Congress is finally taking notice.
Posted inArticle
Justice Scalia’s Two-Front War
Despite lip service to “judicial restraint” Scalia has been waging a war against consumer product regulation as well as protections for workers, at both the state and federal level.
Posted inFeatures
Repealing the 20th Century
When most Americans think about the Supreme Court’s effect, they think about such cultural hot-buttons as abortion, or due process for terrorists.
