Vox.com reported, State-level Republicans are going all in on extreme anti-trans, anti-abortion laws: Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are taking up anti-trans and anti-abortion bills at a shocking rate, as lawmakers seize on an enforcement mechanism first tested by Texas’s SB 8. Multiple states — including Florida, Idaho, Texas — and Arizona — have … Read more
Supreme Court Justices have spent their break trying to convince Americans that they are not political, that they are ethereal beings who are above it all. Also, trying to convince themselves that their shit doesn’t stink. It has not gone well, because Americans know that they are being lied to and played for fools. In … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court began the week last Monday with a couple of technical criminal sentencing cases. Greer v. United States is a case about what kind of argument the defendant needs to make in cases alleging that he is a felon in possession of a gun after the Court’s ruling in Rehaif v. United … Read more
Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Here is a real life example. Donald Trump initiated a number of tariffs in his trade war with … Read more
Wow, it’s June already! And you know what that means: SCOTUS Watch. June is the last month of the Supreme Court’s term, and the Roberts Court has developed a reputation for cliffhanger endings to its most controversial cases, as if it is a reality TV show. We are about to find out just how radical … Read more