Jason Kander, a rising Democratic star, is leading a new organization that hopes to turn the tables on Republican voter suppression.Â
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Warren Silenced: The Patriarchy Strikes Back
Effectively telling the progressive senator to sit down and shut up, the Senate majority leader played the card of an abuser.
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Why Democrats Should Block Gorsuch
In a rational political system, Democrats might keep their powder dry in the Supreme Court battle. But Republican extremism has made resistance Democrats’ only option.
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Starving Civil Rights In the Trump Era
Donald Trump is poised to defund the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and his Supreme Court pick bodes poorly for the future of civil rights.
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A Price Confirmation Would Continue Obstruction of Gun Violence Research
The prospects for reinvigorating gun violence research could become even more remote. Federal funding for studies into gun violence and gun-related deaths has effectively been frozen for the last two decades, a worrying trend that looks to continue under a Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, especially if the Senate confirms Representative Tom Price, President […]
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Scalia, the Sequel
An originalist like Antonin Scalia, Neil Gorsuch is guided by 1787 thought processes, which made no provision for a right to privacy, or reproductive choice, or same-sex marriage.
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Awaiting Trump’s Pick
Two of the three favorites for a Supreme Court appointment are merely very conservative. The third is way very conservative.Â
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Donald Trump: Trickle Downer of the Week
The deregulator-in-chief’s crusade to slash 75 percent of the federal government’s rules is based on the myth that regulations kill jobs.Â
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Trump Just Became President, and There’s Already a Plan to Impeach Him
It didn’t take long for critics, citing his ethical quagmires, to call for a congressional investigation.Â
