Excessive reverence for unwritten Senate rules has dashed the campaign to remake the bench.
Supreme Court
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Insidious Attack on the Training of Ob/Gyn Residents
The anti-choice lobby doesn’t want them to learn the full range of reproductive care, including abortion.
Posted inPolitics
Abolish State Senates
What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What to Do About the Court
A Prospect symposium on judicial review and the separation of powers
Posted inLaw and Justice
In Defense of Judicial Review
For all its imperfections, the Court is the one branch of government structured to protect minority rights.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Problem Isn’t Judicial Review; It’s the Court’s Politics
Which we can alter only with politics
Posted inLaw and Justice
American Government-by-Lawsuit Is a Disaster
Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.
Posted inPolitics
Abortion Rights Supporters Are in Step With the Mainstream
Taking shots at the Democratic Party regulars who do the work is very unhelpful.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Hospitals Undermine Reproductive Rights
Fears of controversy and squeamishness about the procedure lead many hospitals in blue states to ban abortions. Biden has the power to change this.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Case Against Judicial Review
If Democrats don’t bring the Supreme Court to heel, Americans will live under judicial despotism for the foreseeable future.
