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Time to Start Thinking About the Midterms
May 8, 2025 The Republican Party is attacking the right to vote with a raft of new election laws — and criminal penalties for breaking them.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday?
Apr 14, 2025 The defense and homeland security leaders have until April 20 to issue a report that could lead Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Trump’s War on Lawyers Is Just Starting
Mar 24, 2025 If Trump succeeds in bringing his first targets to heel, expect him to widen the attack on attorneys, firms and legal advocacy organizations.
Napoleon in a Clown Nose
Feb 24, 2025 Trump’s assaults on the rule of law are crude and sometimes clownish, but the paradigm shift driving them has been carefully planned.
Birthright Citizenship and the Post-Constitutional Agenda
Feb 3, 2025 Don’t count on the Supreme Court to stop Donald Trump’s new executive order.
Garlanded with Failure
Jan 16, 2025 History will not remember the outgoing attorney general kindly.
Could Donald Trump Serve a Third Term as President?
Dec 9, 2024 If you think the 22nd Amendment would stop Trump from serving a third term, you probably haven’t read the amendment.
Donald Trump and the Election Subversion Plot of 1787
Oct 28, 2024 Trump is exploiting the deeply anti-democratic Electoral College as designed by the Founding Fathers.
Heller Skelter
Sep 17, 2024 How two Supreme Court decisions supercharged the nation’s gun violence epidemic.
Scuttling ‘New York Times v. Sullivan’ Could Destroy Independent Media
Aug 29, 2024 The foundational precedent protecting freedom of the press may be on shaky ground.
In Chicago, the Whole World Is Watching Again
Aug 20, 2024 But this week’s Democratic Convention is more like 1932 than 1968.
Recent Rulings Expose Supreme Court’s Anti-Worker Bias
Aug 8, 2018 There is no question that the Roberts court has made the task of union organizing more difficult. And if Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is confirmed, there is little doubt that difficulties will intensify.
Supreme Court Wraps Term With Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement and a Rash of Right-Wing Rulings
Jun 27, 2018 Here’s your recap of the jurisprudential carnage.