SCOTUS Enables the Ethnic Cleansing of Springfield, OH to Commence

In a 6-3 decision in the case Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 Haitian immigrants. That fact is awful, but seems sterile and anodyne out of any proper context. The preeminent scholar of the global history of genocide and … Read more

Kris Mayes and Adrian Fontes Respond to Federal Judge Ruling Against Trump’s Unconstitutional Move to Control Elections

Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled against Donald Trump’s Executive Order that, if allowed, would give the Executive Branch unprecedented control over American elections, including the regulation of mail-in ballots. In her ruling for the Democratic statewide Attorney Generals, like Arizona’s Kris Mayes, who brought the suit, she wrote, “The Constitution … Read more

Ansari, Grijalva, and Gallego React to Conservative Supreme Court’s Whites-Only Immigration Ruling Today

In today’s ruling by the conservative majority 6 to 3 United States Supreme Court, Samuel ‘Roe v Wade was erroneously decided’ Alito wrote that Haitian immigrants’ claims that Donald Trump’s decision to strip them and Syrians from the Temporary Protected Status they, up until today, enjoyed, was not “overtly” motivated by racism and therefore could … Read more