A new Pew survey shows the public thinks the Supreme Court is the single most partisan overseer and adjudicator of elections.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Judicial Gerrymandering
On today’s episode, David and Hassan talk about what’s wrong with the courts.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Conservatives Use Trump Assassination Attempt to Target Women in Anti-Diversity War
It’s a move to enshrine values into law, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
Posted inLaw and Justice
America’s Judicial Divisions
Every major policy issue is now also a courtroom battle, decided in increasingly partisan settings. And there’s no end in sight.
Posted inPolitics
How Congress Gets Its Groove Back
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings will change how Congress writes laws. It may even force the legislative branch to take a hard look at its own dysfunctions.
Posted inLaw and Justice
‘Men’s Rights and Nothing More, Women’s Rights and Nothing Less’
Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Next Administration Can Stop the Government’s Endless Ethics Scandals
Federal officials of any kind should not be overseeing anything in which they have a direct financial interest.
Posted inTAP
It’s the Guns, Stupid
Today on TAP: Are we so inured to the premise that nothing can be done about mass ownership of military weapons that gun control has vanished from discourse and debate?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Supreme Court Trashes Student Debt Relief
Today on TAP: The conversion of the high court into a body of opportunistic partisan hacks, courtesy of Trump’s three appointees, needs to be a bigger issue in the election.