Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from.
Samuel Alito
Posted inWorking in America
Labor, Supply Chains, and Alito
Our editor at large lists his Best of 2022.
Posted inPolitics
Kansans to Alito: F*ck You.
Americans, it appears, don’t like their rights taken away.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Samuel Alito: The 21st-Century Roger Taney
The author of ‘Dred Scott’ and the author of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization stripped fundamental rights from Blacks and women, respectively. And sundered their nation in the process.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Sense of an Ending
On ‘Dobbs,’ ‘Roe,’ ‘Casey,’ and life in a gender hierarchy state
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Through Line From ‘Brown’ to ‘Dobbs’
Samuel Alito’s argument against abortion rights sounds a lot like the arguments made against school desegregation 70 years ago.
Posted inTAP
Don’t Fret, Said Alito; There’s Family Leave!
Today on TAP: But there’s paid family leave only in states where abortion is legal and will remain so. No state where it’s being criminalized would consider such post-birth decency.
Posted inTAP
Alito Outs and Splits the Republicans
Today on TAP: His draft opinion overturning ‘Roe’ has the anti-abortion movement in frantic damage control mode. Will the spin work?
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
‘Roe,’ Precedent, and Reliance
In his draft opinion, Justice Alito dismisses the idea that unintended pregnancies can upend women’s lives.