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Supreme Court
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Stunning Shift in Public Opinion Post-Dobbs
Political scientists Laurel Elder and Steven Greene explore the dramatic evolution of Americans’ views on abortion.
Posted inPolitics
Proportional Representation Gets a New Look
Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Supreme Court Gives Wall Street Its Own Regulator
The wealthy got the ultimate regulatory carve-out for when this bubble pops.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Plan to Corrupt American Science
OMB’s Russell Vought would bring all federal research grants under direct political control, to align with ‘the president’s agenda.’
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court’s Zero-Sum Session
In the transgender sports cases, like everywhere else, someone has to win and someone has to lose.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Assault on Congress’s Anti-Monopoly Solution
By letting presidents fire independent agency commissioners at will, the Supreme Court broke a deliberate diffusion of power that is as old as the Constitution itself.
Posted inTAP
The Court Equivocates on Whom to Deport
Birthright citizenship appears to be OK, but refugees from ‘shithole countries’ gotta go.
Posted inTAP
Two Rulings That Are Impossible to Reconcile
If you believe that presidents get to fire executive branch appointees, there is no logical way for that to only be inapplicable for the Federal Reserve.
Posted inTAP
Courts Keep Blocking Trump’s Moves Against the Right to Vote
We are protected not only by Congress’s rejection of the SAVE America Act. Courts are distinctly unsympathetic to Trump’s attempted takeover of elections via executive order.