“Et tu, Brute?” – William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” Those who believe in free and fair elections and the rule of law in Florida and elsewhere across the United States are reeling after five conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on April 29 that neuters Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights […]
The Supreme Court took the unusual step on Thursday of dismissing a case that it had already heard, handing a rare win to a death-row prisoner and avoiding a ruling that could make it harder for other prisoners with intellectual disabilities to avoid execution.
In rare cases, the justices agree to hear a case, only to conclude later that it would be inappropriate or unnecessary for the high…
U.S. House Republicans on Thursday denounced expanding the Supreme Court, an idea some Democrats support to dilute the court’s conservative majority after years of decisions that have angered liberals. Republican and Democratic lawmakers at a hearing clashed over the future of the high court following Louisiana v. Callais, a landmark decision gutting the federal Voting […]
The Trump administration set the stage for the largest heist in American history this week by creating an illegal fund of taxpayer dollars to compensate President Donald Trump and his allies—including the January 6 insurrectionists for being brought to justice after storming the Capitol in 2021.
The Justice Department’s announcement that it will set a $1.8 billion slush fund to settle a $10…
When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map to take effect in December, its conservative majority wrote that a lower court had “improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign” when it blocked the map more than three months before the election. Now, the Supreme Court is the one upending elections. For the […]
Today the Trump administration is hosting an all-day prayer festival on the National Mall, partially funded with millions in taxpayer dollars, to “rededicate” America to God — and to promote Christian nationalism. It’s all part of America’s 250th birthday celebration, which has been co-opted by the current administration and its minions to convey an overtly […]
President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post depicting Venezuela overlaid with an American flag and labeled the 51st state followed a Fox News report that Trump had said he was “seriously considering” such a move.
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Since it overturned his IEEPA tariffs in _Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump_ , Donald Trump has clearly had the Supreme Court on his mind. In addition to complaining about “his” justices voting against him even when they “knew where [he] stood, how badly [he] wanted this Victory for our Country,” Trump set off significant speculation when he discussed potentially nominating three more justices.…
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
The post The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering appeared first on The American Prospect.
About a decade ago, I moved into an apartment in Washington, D.C., that seemed like a bargain. The unit was in good shape and in a nice location. The price was reasonable—slightly below market rate, but not suspiciously low for a fourth-floor walkup. I did a brief walkthrough before signing the lease, just in case, only to cut it short when my editor at the time called to let me know that the…
El presidente ha sido insistente en que la presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, “está haciendo un excelente trabajo” y colaborando como esperan con su país.
The post Presentador de Fox: Trump considera la posibilidad de convertir a Venezuela en el estado 51 de EE UU appeared first on EL NACIONAL.
Recall, if you can stomach it, the late summer months of the 2024 presidential campaign. The political press was churning out (accurate) stories about how Vice President Kamala Harris was distancing herself from some of the bolder policy proposals she’d previously backed, and many of the left were in a froth over it. But I paid it little mind. Timidly pivoting to the center was nothing new for…
Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have a problem on their hands. Americans have an increasingly low opinion of the Supreme Court. Thanks to its aggressive and corrosive rulings, a growing number of voters and elected officials favor structural reforms to rein in the conservative justices—by expanding its size, narrowing its jurisdiction, and other major changes.
The chief justice…
The reactionary hacks on the Supreme Court might have gone too far this time.
The post John Roberts Is Starting to Sweat appeared first on The American Prospect.
Lots of solid reasons, in fact.
Throughout the American South is an archipelago of majority-Black congressional districts that provide some measure of Black representation in Congress. These districts owe their existence to a combination of basic electoral math, federal court orders, and legislative compromises. If Republicans have their way, all or nearly all of them will be gone in the next few months.
The Supreme Court’s…
As discussed on today’s BradCast, little if anything will ultimately get corrected in our broken democracy unless and until we have reform of our corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. Time to start talking about it, so we can press candidates for Congress this year on whether they will support it. [Audio to full show follows this […]
After the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the federal Voting Rights Act in an April 29 decision, a furious U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries condemned what he called an “illegitimate” conservative majority on the court. “This isn’t even the Roberts Court,” Jeffries said, referring to Chief Justice John Roberts. “It’s the Trump Court.” Democrats […]
After the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the federal Voting Rights Act in an April 29 decision, a furious U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries condemned what he called an “illegitimate” conservative majority on the court. “This isn’t even the Roberts Court,” Jeffries said, referring to Chief Justice John Roberts. “It’s the Trump Court.” Democrats […]
The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.
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El presidente de Estados Unidos presiona a los gobernadores republicanos para que cambien los distritos de voto a tiempo para las ‘midterms’ de noviembre
The Supreme Court achieved one of the principal goals of the conservative legal movement by destroying the last remaining pillar of Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Wednesday’s decision in _Louisiana v. Callais_ , the court’s six-justice conservative majority effectively dismantled its protections against racial gerrymandering, and thus rendered the once-mighty law a hollow shell of…
It’s a grim day. Tune in for today’s BradCast for the full story. I’ll keep it brief here. [Audio to today’s show follows this summary.] In short, after telling America, when SCOTUS gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, in 2013’s Shelby County v. Alabama, that there was no concern, because Section 2 was […]
William Baude and Richard Re respond to a common narrative
Over the weekend, the _New York Times_ published a fairly explosive investigation into the birth of the Supreme Court’s modern shadow docket. Traditionally used for procedural decision-making, the shadow docket has, over the last several years, acted as a back door for SCOTUS to make key policy decisions more or less on the fly—or at least without spending months or years considering briefs and…
Most Supreme Court justices seemed to side with the government against a claim by telecom giants that the Federal Communications Commission violated the companies’ right... Read More
The post ‘Toothless’ or Unconstitutional? SCOTUS Hears Case on $100M Fines for Verizon, AT&T appeared first on The Daily Signal.
_The New York Times_ on Saturday published a series of Supreme Court internal memos that amount, in hindsight, to a major milestone in the decline of American democracy. The closely held memos show how the justices’ shadow docket—particularly their use of brief, unsigned decisions on cases before they’ve even reached the court—transformed from a simple administrative mechanism into a major…
A critique of the New York Times "unfortunately tendentious reporting about the memoranda."
A New York Times scoop reveals that Chief Justice Roberts was concerned that the EPA would (again) get away with imposing unlawful burdens on utilities.
Protester sign outside of the U.S. Supreme Court