The damage the Trump administration did to American freedoms and democracy is difficult to measure. For most of us the damage is irrelevant - to our personal lives - but for others, personal freedom and even our environment, it is a tragedy.
"The recent set of watershed Supreme Court opinions...
We have a SCOTUS full of perjurers today, I will be tactful and not mention Thomas and Kavanaugh's misdeeds. So then how did America get a court of fools. Partly it was Trump, elect a dishonest person and you get dishonest choices. But oddly Alito told the truth and they still confirmed him...
"An alarmed Rachel Maddow is convinced Republicans will now angle to bring a “fetal personhood” case before the Supreme Court in a bid to totally shut down abortion nationwide."
link; Rachel Maddow Predicts 'Fetal Personhood' SCOTUS Case Will End Abortion Nationwide
Now, where have I heard...
This is well said and brilliant.
'Sen. Whitehouse Speaks on Day 3 of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson'
A conservative (dark money) SCOTUS is simply the legislative branch of the oligarchs, the corporatist, and the powerful over the working class.
'Injustices...
This is a simple poll to make a relevant political point.
In the 2016 Presidential Election, one of the primary reasons that Trump voters voted for Trump over Hillary was to DENY Hillary the chance to nominate any Supreme Court justices. Trump won the election. It would be a betrayal of HIS...
All eyes on Roberts ahead of Supreme Court's abortion ruling
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Chief Justice John Roberts is under the microscope as the Supreme Court prepares to issue its first major ruling on abortion rights in the Trump era, which will give the clearest...
Below you will find the founders vision and design for this country:
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3506&context=wlulr
Now compare that to todays 'very' sad reality.
The 'spirit' of the law is dead and long gone!
Today, the founders government has been...
It's a great day LGBT people who no longer have to fear discrimination in theworkplace
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/scotus-lgbtq-transgender-decision-140519262.html?soc_src=newsroom&soc_trk=com.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail&.tsrc=newsroom
Supreme Court Says LGBTQ Employees Are Protected By...
If there is a hell it will be full of Supreme Court justices. Or is that corporate justices?
'Supreme Inequality' Makes A Case That The Top U.S. Court Has Widened The Wealth Gap
'The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America' by Adam Cohen
'Injustices: The Supreme Court's...
While all Justices and Judges, indeed all people have their biases, this strikes me as different and disturbing. Justices will typically make an honest attempt to balance their ideology with a sound application of the law and the constitution, even when that ideology shapes their perception and...
"If hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." Nikola Tesla
"Between 5,000 and 7,000 hate crime incidents are reported each year to the FBI." AP
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil
Does hate create evil, does...
A great victory for the 5th Amendment. Thank God President Trump was elected and able to appoint two Supreme Court Justices thus far. Let’s hope he’s able to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
My Faith Votes | SCOTUS Watch | June 28, 2019
I really have to wonder about people who devote their so called lives to trying to deny others what they can take for granted- Specifically marriage. Meet Brian Brown of the National Organization for (Straight ) Marriage who is obsessing about Mayor Pete Buttigieg and who thinks that he can...
Supreme Court lifts orders to disclose DACA cancellation records
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Friday lifted orders the Trump administration was facing to turn over more records detailing the decision to terminate the Obama-era program that offers quasi-legal status and work permits to...
"Pryor, 54, is an Alabama-based judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch, 49, is on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Hardiman, 51, is based in Pittsburgh for the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. All three were nominated by President George W. Bush for their...
Nothing in the US Constitution mentions supermajority requirements except for (1) the passage of new Amendments and (2) impeachment of the POTUS.
And the history of the evolution of the filibuster rule in the Senate evolved from 1892 when the SCOTUS ruled that the Senate may therefore change...
First of all, let's be clear. It is understood that the President alone does not have the power nor the authority to "ban abortion" on their own. Please don't read too far into the title of this thread.
That said, on inauguration day, January 20, 2017 - When President Elect Donald Trump is...
I thought the "Grand Old Party Sub" detested "big government"??
President-Elect Donald J. Trump has reportedly assured NJ Governor Chris Christie that, despite recent reports, he has not been banished from his inner circle, and will nominate the Bridgegate behemoth to the Supreme Food Court...
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain pledged Monday that Republicans will unite against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton puts forward if she becomes president, forecasting obstruction that could tie Capitol Hill in knots.
However an aide later clarified that McCain, R-Ariz., will examine...
On March 23, 2016, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Zubick v Burwell. This case has several plaintiffs. The issue is the HHS mandate which forces employers to provide health insurance to their employees that includes contraceptives. For those employers with a religious objection to...
The religious will disagree but consider only the judgments made almost daily by the religious about others who do not share their view of life? Judge not lest .... sounds nice but since religions possess what they they believe is the word of god, all actions are possible. The golden rule is...