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

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

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

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

Rep. David Ciccilline Demonstrates How To Respond To The GQP’s Anti-Immigrant Hysteria ‘White Fright’ 2022 Campaign Strategy

Update to The DOJ Needs To Prosecute These Republican Coup Plotters Before They Can Succeed (excerpt): But because Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice have failed to prosecute any of these seditious insurrectionist Republican members of Congress, they are only more emboldened in their fascist plots. This piece of shit insurrectionist traitor Rep. “Gym” … Read more