Lynn Shapiro 
Judging from Monday’s oral arguments in Trump v. New York, at least three conservative Justices — Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito — oppose Trump’s xenophobic scheme to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census. At issue is a July 21 Trump administration order that directs the Commerce Department to release two sets … Read more
UPDATE Nov. 26, 2020: The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority late on Nov. 25 sided with religious organizations in New York that said they were illegally targeted by pandemic-related restrictions imposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to combat spiking coronavirus cases. Now that devoutly Catholic Amy Coney Barrett has become the fifth conservative Justice, a … Read more
Just before Thanksgiving two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts defended the courts’ integrity. He criticized Donald Trump’s argument that a Ninth Circuit ruling against his attempt to stop asylum seekers was made by an “Obama Judge,” Jon S. Tigar. “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts … Read more
The Supreme Court is arguing Obamacare for the third time on Tuesday, November 10, in Texas v. California. In 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts initially joined liberals to uphold Obamacare as a tax, rather than an entitlement in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius Roberts spared Obamacare for the second time in 2015, in … Read more
My colleagues David Gordon and Clyde Steele have written extensively about State Senator Vince Leach’s autocratic governance compared with the Legislative District 11 Democratic challenger, JoAnna Mendoza, who is as salt-of-the-earth as Kamala Harris. Mendoza is a Marine Corps veteran, a Redrock resident, and mother to a 4-year old son. She is one of the … Read more