The Trump administration had argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that it needed a decision on the citizenship question because the printer’s deadline for the 2020 Census form was July 1. In fact, the Supreme Court relied on this representation, bypassing the court of appeals (which is extremely rare) and adding the constitutional question to … Read more
The situation at our Southern border is horrific. Innocent people who want to escape hardship and cruelty in their home countries and achieve the American Dream, and even those who have crossed into our country illegally, are being denied adequate and timely due process and subjected to harsh treatment that most thought was confined to … Read more
Last month the Phoenix New Times followed up on a Buzzfeed report on the Plain View Project, a database created by a team of Philadelphia attorneys in an effort to catalog bigotry and racism among police officers nationwide on social media. Phoenix Cops Bash Muslims, Call Black People Thugs in Shocking Facebook Posts: The database includes 282 … Read more
What took so damn long? This should have happened weeks ago. Mark Sumner at Daily Kos reports, House files lawsuit demanding Trump’s tax forms: On Tuesday, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, demanding the release of Donald … Read more
Following the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates, Republican “Never Trump” commentators who are counting on Democrats to save our democracy from their own abject failure to prevent the hostile takeover of the Republican Party by a grifter, con man and criminal who has successfully converted the GOP into an authoritarian personality cult of … Read more