If Trump’s nominee is confirmed, we’ll have the most radically conservative Court since the early 1930s.
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Posted inPolitics
Democrats, Republicans, and the Ruthlessness Gap
The Supreme Court fight should leave Democrats considering power, and how they must wield it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Won’t Be Replaced … Until After the Election
You have to put yourself in the shoes of Mitch McConnell.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
As California attorney general, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population. The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Trump Administration Is Defying the Supreme Court on DACA
On Monday, the government legally had to begin accepting new DACA applications, but advocates, legal experts, and Senate Democrats worry that they are slow-walking processing of new applicants.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Did the Supreme Court Just Make Me a Minister?
Expanding the ministerial exception may give religious institutions license to discriminate.
Posted inTAP
Majority Rule? Not Yet, Fellow Americans
Today on TAP: The Electoral College threat to democracy
Posted inLaw and Justice
Still Anti-Abortion, but Can’t Swallow Alternative Facts
Why Chief Justice Roberts sided with the liberals in June Medical Services
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Decisive Tax Defeat for the Multinationals?
Altera, owned by Intel, just lost a major case on corporate offshore tax evasion. It could signal the end of ‘transfer pricing’—the most common and flagrant way big companies avoid taxes.