Extremism

Gov. Greg Abbott Wants To Use Anticipated Decision in Dobbs To Reverse 1982 SCOTUS Precedent On Educating Immigrant Children

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We first have to take a trip in Mr. Peabody’s time travel WAYBAC Machine, to 2011 when Arizona’s leading anti-immigrant racist, then Senate President Russell Pearce, unsuccessfully tried to prohibit undocumented immigrant children from receiving a public school education, even though it was a violation of  a 1982 Supreme Court decision. Pearce moves to officially … Read more

Dear Justice Alito: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

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David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, writes at the Washington Post, Reversals usually expand rights. Alito’s ruling would deny them. In his leaked draft opinion for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. points to Brown v. … Read more

Justice Alito’s Draft Opinion Relies On A 17th Century Jurist Responsible For the Marital Rape Exemption, And Who Executed Women As Witches

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Above: Justce Samuel Alito; Sir Matthew Hale. Most Americans have probably never heard of Sir Matthew Hale, an English jurist who was born in 1609. But Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization cites him a half-dozen times throughout his draft as proof that abortion bans are an indispensable part … Read more

More Opinions From Legal Correspondents On The Alito Draft Opinion

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Politico obtained a working first draft of an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, one of the most radical Republicans on the Supreme Court, reversing Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows. I’ve given you my opinion, but here is another opinion from Supreme … Read more

CD 2 GQP Primary Debate Was A Farce – The Media Must Do Better

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Paul Waldman at the Washington Post writes, The Republican primaries have gone off the rails: It might have been inevitable that the 2022 version of the Republican Party would be dominated by its most extreme and unhinged impulses. The election of a Democratic president always produces a furious backlash. With Donald Trump demanding GOP fealty … Read more