Tag: SCOTUS
The Supreme Court’s crisis of legitimacy
What other recourse is there, except to reach for the pitchforks?
The Supreme Court’s EPA decision could hamper regulator’s ability to protect...
The agency will still be allowed to regulate many forms of air pollution, but would need explicit direction from Congress on how to tackle some of the worst aspects of climate change and other pressing issues.
Science shows US Supreme Court abortion, guns, environment rulings will have...
We can’t allow ourselves to be discouraged. Too much is at stake.
The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate carbon pollution...
The U.S. has entered a new era of administrative law, with an activist court asserting its power to curtail what it perceives as the excesses of regulatory agencies – and not always waiting for those agencies to complete their work.
‘Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas’ petition nears 1 million signatures
"He has shown he cannot be an impartial justice and is more concerned with covering up his wife's coup attempts than the health of the Supreme Court," reads the petition.
Naomi Klein: The US is in the midst of a ‘shock-and-awe...
"The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over," warned the author of "The Shock Doctrine."
The current US Supreme Court is not constitutionally legitimate
Dobbs is a watershed attack that will come to be known as an infamous consolidation of an unrelenting extremist assault on this country's gains for equality and justice.
Lift the Supreme Court’s veil of secrecy
These nine individuals make decisions that affect every American. Why should they get to do it secretly?
Bill Baird’s battle for legalized abortion and Roe v. Wade
"This is a religious war,” says Baird of the intense push to make abortion illegal.“
Media shocked by the leak, not the opinion
The essential story journalists need to be telling now is the story of the further concrete consequences the decision would have on millions of people’s lives throughout the country.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.
Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?
We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.