A Supreme Court ruling nullifies a core piece of the 21st Amendment: state control of alcohol markets.
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Never Mind the Russians. It’s the Court That Rigs Our Elections.
The five Republican justices’ gerrymandering decision ensures GOP rule even when the party’s in the minority.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Split Decision at the Supreme Court—Which Might Not Be Split for Long
The justices deny relief from gerrymandering, and hold up the citizenship question on the census … for now.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Anti-Entrenchment Agenda
Entrenched power is the problem. What can be done about it?
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Can Democrats Stop McConnell and Trump’s Quiet Regulatory Takeover?
Republicans have stymied the filling of Democratic seats in independent agencies. There doesn’t appear to be any plan to confront this.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Does the Civil Rights Act Protect Gay Employees? The Court Will Decide.
And the conservative justices will have to choose between their self-proclaimed allegiance to what a law says and their social biases.
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Over to You, John Roberts
The future of American democracy may literally come down to the decisions of one man, Chief Justice John Roberts. That’s because all of Trump’s efforts to place himself above the law—stonewalling subpoenas, telling his people to defy contempt citations, making dictatorial claims about executive power—will eventually end up in court. The Supreme Court. And as […]
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Resisting Trump’s Politicization of the Census
Trump’s intention is to undercount noncitizens, and Supreme Court conservatives appear on board.
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The GOP Justices: Republicans First, White Guys Second, Constitutionalists Third
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on the constitutionality of President Trump’s Commerce Department adding a question on citizenship status to the 2020 census, and it looked like the five Republican pooh-bahs (Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh) are poised to give it a thumbs-up. What this means is that the census—for which […]
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Janus’s Progeny? A Supreme Court Threat to Majority Rule Looms
Two cases the Court is considering taking could undermine collective bargaining—and democracy as we know it.