In a case it will hear next week, the Court could side with Alabama and deliver a devastating blow to the landmark civil rights law.
John Roberts
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Republicans Are Coming After Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan
Yesterday, the first legal challenge was filed to kill the measure, but the administration is on solid legal ground.
Posted inLaw and Justice
On Regulation and Immigration, the Supreme Court Tried to Seem Reasonable
Their end-of-term decisions on greenhouse gas regulation and migrants from Mexico could have been worse, but the conservative justices are still pushing the Court rightward.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
Native, Inc.
Fifty years ago, Indigenous Alaskans created their own corporations to manage their land and affairs. Their success holds lessons in the lower 48, where tribal rights are under renewed attack.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
Another Scheme to Curtail Voting Rights
Get to know the “independent state legislature doctrine” which intrigues Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court’s Alabama Disaster
An evening ruling undoing the work of Trump- and Clinton-appointed judges harms Black voters—and shows an activist conservative Court bent on narrowing voting rights.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The (Necessary) Perils of Biden’s Unitary Presidency
Firing Trump’s Social Security commissioner was the better of two bad choices.
Posted inMain, Political Animal
In Election Litigation, An Ominous Sign
Buried in a legal debate over “independent legislatures” lay signs that the Roberts Court is all about raw power.
Posted inFeatured, Protecting the Vote
The Supreme Court’s Latest and Very Ominous Voting Case
Because of a split decision, a Pennsylvania ruling that allowed more time for mail-in ballots narrowly survives. When Amy Coney Barrett is seated, voters will lose. Big time.
Posted inFeatured, Law and Justice, Political Animal, Politics
Packing the Court Might Work. Threatening to Pack It Did.
What Joe Biden can learn from FDR.
