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
Late on Sunday night, on a Memorial Day weekend when most Americans were distracted, the Texas Lege tried to pass the most anti-democratic, Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bill in the nation. EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder. (Texas is already the most difficult state in the country to vote, it is … Read more
David Gordon briefly touched on this in an earlier post, but on Thursday the House Passed Sweeping Gay and Transgender Equality Legislation: [The House voted 224-206 on Thursday to pass the Equality Act], a bill that would extend civil rights protections to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, but the … Read more
It has been almost 50 years since this classic episode of All In The Family when Archie Bunker learns that a black family, the Jeffersons, have bought the house next door in his Queens, New York neighborhood. Lionel Moves Into the Neighborhood (season 1, episode 8, originally aired on March 2, 1971). This was at … Read more
First Amendment religious liberty was intended to be a shield from government control over religion in response to the state religions of Europe, and the centuries of sectarian conflict from which many colonists had fled Europe. The government was prohibited from establishing a state religion, and all religions were free to exercise their beliefs. But … Read more