In October, we covered Buck v. Davis, a death penalty case that was being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Wednesday, February 22, the Court ruled in favor of convicted murderer and condemned prisoner Duane Buck and sent his case back to the appeals court. Procedurally, the case was a complicated mess, but it […]
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Upholding the Rule of Law
The appellate court informs the president that he can’t end-run the Constitution.
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Q&A: How Democrats Can Win the Voter Suppression Argument
Jason Kander, a rising Democratic star, is leading a new organization that hopes to turn the tables on Republican voter suppression.
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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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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.
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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.
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Big Money’s Other Casualty: Fair Courts
Record spending by secretive outside special interests in state supreme court races poses a stark threat to the impartiality of the nation’s courts.