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Justice Clarence Thomas upstaged his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court with his concurring opinion when they overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) last month. They defied common sense to argue that the rationale they were using to do so only applied to abortion. Read more.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
Chief Justice John Roberts himself confirmed yesterday that the leaked draft opinion, which delineates the reasoning for the (Republican) Supreme Court to finally overrule Roe v. Wade, “is authentic.” I commented on the Mississippi law that provided the pretext for the Court to deliver this death blow to abortion rights in America in “Abortion Brings… Read more.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni’ Thomas, will cause him to retire in utter disgrace. This is unavoidable now. Because, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, she sent then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows a flurry of text messages, some of which The Washington Post published last… Read more.
Trust me, Ketanji Brown Jackson is far more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than Amy Coney Barrett. And Blacks everywhere should be proud and encouraged in equal measure that she is even more suited for this pioneering role, as the first Black woman, than Thurgood Marshall was, as the first Black man, when… Read more.
Last summer, when fellow progressives began heckling Justice Stephen Breyer to retire immediately, I defended him in part as follows in “Re Justice Breyer: To Retire, or Not to Retire, That Is (Not) the Question,” July 3, 2021: ________ Full disclosure, I am probably more progressive/liberal than Bernie Sanders and AOC. More to the point,… Read more.
It seems everyone in Washington was alarmed at the way arguments on Mississippi’s anti-abortion law played out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. This, because the Republican-appointed justices kept signaling their intent to betray legal precedent, even common sense, to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that granted abortion rights. Nicole Wallace was communications… Read more.
A few months ago, AOC and her (expanded) Squad were all over TV and social media appealing to Justice Stephen Breyer to retire – to save American Democracy and to seal his judicial legacy. But it appears either uncertainty or frustration has gotten the better of them. Because, as Spectrum News NY 1 reported on… Read more.
Just weeks ago, I commented on how President Trump was making it impossible for Attorney General William Barr to do his bidding, despite Barr’s obvious interest in doing so. The problem was that Trump kept telling everyone what he should have been telling no one. In that case, it was that he wanted Barr to… Read more.
The Justice Department alarmed voting-law experts Thursday by announcing an investigation into nine discarded ballots found in northeastern Pennsylvania, a case immediately seized upon by the Trump campaign as evidence of a dark Democratic conspiracy to tamper with the presidential election. President Trump also appeared to cite the case, telling reporters at the White House… Read more.
