Today on TAP: The top Republican on the Judiciary Committee can’t complain about ‘affirmative action,’ but there’s a fallback strategy.
Supreme Court
Posted inLaw and Justice
Clyburn Pushes Management-Side Labor Attorney for Supreme Court
Michelle Childs, a potential choice to replace Stephen Breyer, worked for years defending employers accused in racial, gender, and other discrimination cases.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
On Being American
Mitch McConnell reminded us that Americans often have trouble with the reality of fully American Black people. Expect more such flare-ups in the new Supreme Court fight.
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Breyer Finally Steps Aside
Today on TAP: Biden is very likely to name Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his successor.
Posted inPolitics
Making China’s Case: Manchin, Sinema, and the Six Supremes
By demonstrating America can’t ensure the right to vote or to survive a pandemic, they’re bolstering the argument that authoritarian regimes work better than ours.
Posted inPolitics
There Is a Bully Pulpit
And thanks to the Supreme Court, Biden will need to use it.
Posted inTAP
The Republicans’ Death Panel Finally Emerges!
Today on TAP: The Supreme Court’s Republican Six rule that the government lacks the power to fight a pandemic.
Posted inWorking in America
Can OSHA Keep Workers Safe? The Court Hears the Case Tomorrow.
Had OSHA’s standard not been stayed by the most conservative circuit court, the number of COVID cases and deaths would have been reduced.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Court and the Rise in Vigilantism
Last Friday’s ruling on Texas’s new anti-abortion law makes it possible to undo long-established rights.
