The anti-democratic governor accustomed to getting his way finally accepted his losses in the courts last week. What does Walker’s electoral overreach mean for the Badger State?
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The Federal Government’s Secret War on Black Activists
In a chilling echo of the 1960s, law enforcement agencies have stepped up surveillance of racial justice advocates and groups exercising their constitutional rights.
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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
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Remembering Judge Stephen Reinhardt
The legacy of the great liberal appellate judge, who died Thursday at 87
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The Radical Roots of Janus
The attorney whose arguments were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday—a decade after his death—actually wanted all unions outlawed.
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Who’s Behind the Janus Lawsuit?
A look at the right-wing foundations and individuals funding the case—which the Supreme Court hears today—that could weaken America’s unions.
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Democracy Unchecked: Trump Spurs State Lawmakers to Curb Judges’ Powers
The president is leading the way for Republican attacks on judicial independence.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
No Big-Game Hunting at Justice
How federal prosecutors let major white-collar criminals off the hook and stick shareholders with the costs of corporate crime
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Abortion Access, the Supreme Court, and a Troubling Case of Déjà Vu
Planned Parenthood’s new petition for high court review involves a state restriction on medication abortion nearly identical to one the nation’s top court ruled unconstitutional in 2016.
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Jeff Sessions Is Just Getting Started on Deporting More Immigrants
He’s speeding up their hearings, and if that leads to expelling exemplary immigrants on whose paperwork the government is sitting—well, that’s tough.