Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation into the leak of Justice Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But the Chief has not publicly expressed any concern over the earlier scandalous revelations about “Ginny” Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, having a direct line of influence over her client’s cases before … Read more
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
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
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
A day after Politico reported a leaked working draft of Justice Alito’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the Emily’s List National Conference in a previously scheduled appearance. (I don’t know why this video screen has the wrong background). Transcript of Remarks by Vice President Harris … Read more