Tag: SCOTUS
SCOTUS: Okay for debt collectors to hound people, even after statute...
“The result is that debt buyers have won ‘billions of dollars in default judgments’ simply by filing suit and betting that consumers will lack the resources to respond.”
Supreme Court Overturns Restrictive Texas Abortion Law
What does the new decision mean for other states with TRAP laws?
In Scathing Dissent, Justice Sotomayor Says Supreme Court Just Gave The...
“It implies that you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged.”
BREAKING: The Biggest Legal Attack On Unions In Decades Is Dead
Justice Antonin Scalia died, and the anti-union litigants lost the fifth vote they needed to prevail.
Obama’s Nomination Insurance for Plutocracy
Obama can call Garland moderate and Republicans can call him liberal, but on the most important question of 2016 he is neither.
Mitch McConnell: We Won’t Vote on Garland Because the NRA Opposes...
Did Mitch McConnell just admit to Republicans being in bed with the NRA?
Republican Senator Says Colleagues Should ‘Man Up’ And Vote On Merrick...
"The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get "yes" or "no" votes. Your whole job is to either say "yes" or "no" and explain why.”
Myths And Facts On The Nomination Of Judge Merrick Garland To...
Here are the facts on the nominee, previous lines of right-wing attack, and facts about the nomination and confirmation processes going forward.
Supreme Obstruction
After so many years of this, the public is, to say the least, disillusioned to the point of giving up on government – even our current pretense of democracy.
The Single Solution to Sanders’ South Carolina and Supreme Court Problems
Yes, revolutionaries, Bernie has two problems; and his “movement” needs to go interactive to help him solve them.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.