Tag: Supreme Court
Divided Supreme Court hears landmark LGBTQ workplace discrimination case
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision in the three cases by early next summer.
Justice Sotomayor slams the Supreme Court’s ‘new normal’ under Trump
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed Trump’s “third-country” asylum rule to go into effect. It’s the administration’s toughest barrier to asylum-seekers yet, and a...
Supreme Court hands GOP big victory on gerrymandering, ensuring “massive election...
The ruling that federal courts can’t resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is “almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future.”
The Supreme Court nixes corporate contributions for the 2020 campaign
The justices refused to consider a challenge to a longstanding ban on corporate donations to political campaigns.
More Americans are suing over gerrymandered state maps – but the...
The public is more aware of partisan gerrymandering than ever – and less supportive of it.
INSTITUTE INDEX: The secret money behind the push to ban abortion
There are a number of people "more dedicated to the enterprise of building a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe v. Wade."
Packing the Supreme Court
Mitch McConnell’s long-term strategy of packing the Court in order to entrench the Republican Party is becoming an obscene reality.
Three LGBTQ cases before the Supreme Court asks the question: How...
Will the Supreme Court back LQBTQ rights? Time will tell.
Expanding Supreme Court may be only way to protect Democracy
2020 Democratic candidates may not be able to avoid this issue for long.
Ending the punishment of poverty: Supreme Court rules against high fines...
On Wednesday, the court ruled the Eighth Amendment protects people from state and local authorities imposing onerous fines, fees and forfeitures to generate money.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.