Tag: U.S. Constitution
Civil Rights case probes racism behind Cancer Alley pollution
Federal lawsuit claiming local officials illegally pushed polluting industries into Black communities reaches new stage.
Martial Law in the United States
Trump will reverse the equation and use martial law to overcome public protest.
SCOTUS rules on ban on gender transition care for minors
The Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee's ban did not violate "U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law by discriminating on the basis of sex" and upholds ban against treatment for minors.
House passes bill to shield Trump from legal accountability, restricts judges...
Republicans push sweeping limits on judicial authority after courts repeatedly block Trump’s executive actions as unlawful or unconstitutional.
Ripping up constitutions
But Trump doesn’t care what’s in the U.S. constitution any more than he cares what trees make up his toilet paper.
The U.S. constitution was meant to be a work in progress
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal’s first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it’s still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.
Protest as domestic terrorism? The threat to dissent
With activism more and more referred to as a form of terrorism on the right, the left will need to take local and state elections more seriously to halt the trend.
How African Americans fought for & won birthright citizenship 150 years...
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The biggest threat to our democracy that you haven’t heard of
The real threat is the real possibility of a rogue Constitutional convention – empowering extremists to radically reshape the Constitution, our laws, and our country.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.