More partisan gamesmanship will only degrade our judiciary.
Tag: United States Supreme Court
The GOP Rush to Confirm Kavanaugh Could Wind Up In His Impeachment
Mitch McConnell’s haste could cost the Republicans their SCOTUS majority.
A Nobel-Winning Economist is Aiding a Major Climate Lawsuit. Whatever.
But only the power of the vote will bring about climate justice.
Someone Tell Bill Maher Not to Waste His Sympathy on Laura Ingraham
Watch this clip very carefully from last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Do you notice that Maher doesn’t actually refute any of Eliot Spitzer and Heather McGee’s points about David Hogg’s pushback against Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault? As Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy observes here, all parties involved in the Hogg-Ingraham controversy simply exercised… Read more »
Supreme Court Can’t Wait to Kill Youth Climate Lawsuit
Like death itself, the end can be delayed, but not escaped: A group of 21 youths who accuse the U.S. government of failing for decades to properly address climate change defeated the Trump administration’s attempt to keep the dispute out of court. The U.S. [Ninth] Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that a… Read more »