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Guns, the Supreme Court, and American Way of Death

How the nation's highest court supercharged the nation’s gun violence epidemic.

21.09.2024 8

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Can Kamala Harris Be the Unlikeliest of Heroes?

If the study of the past teaches us anything, it is that history is often driven by unlikely heroes who rose to the occasion in an hour of dire need.

03.08.2024 20

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Violence Is Wrong, and So Is Trump

In the aftermath of the apparent attempted assassination, the mainstream media have exhorted us to embrace a form of collective amnesia, and to forget...

20.07.2024 10

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Why the Supreme Court's Immunity Trump Ruling Is Even Worse Than You Know

Five things you need to understand about what this right-wing majority has just done.

12.07.2024 10

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With Trump v US, Roberts Fully Reveals His Ideological Extremism

The opinion proves beyond a reasonable doubt that we do, in fact, have Trump judges. And Roberts is the quintessential example.

06.07.2024 10

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The Supreme Court Has Already Helped Trump Win His Immunity Case

By delaying its opinion until the waning days of its current term, the court will prevent the case from going to trial before the November...

20.06.2024 9

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If Trump Doesn’t Change, Judge Merchan Will Have No Choice But to Lock Him Up

The key to obtaining leniency in criminal sentencing, even in cases where guilt is a close call, is to show respect for the system and the judge, and...

14.06.2024 10

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Blaming His Wife for the Insurrection Flag Is Alito’s Latest Lie

Alito has been lying to the public since his Senate confirmation hearing, when he sought to portray himself as a judicial moderate, misrepresenting...

30.05.2024 30

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'Otherwise': The Word That Could Save Trump From Insurrection Conviction

The outcome of the case could hinge on how the U.S. Supreme Court interprets a single word contained in the obstruction statute.

29.04.2024 20

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Trump Makes History as First US Pres on Trial

The beginning of jury selection in the New York City “hush-money” case has Trump alarmed that his strategy of delaying his day of reckoning is...

17.04.2024 5

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The Right-Wing Supreme Court Could Validate Gov Abbott’s War on Immigrants

Of the five-member majority that scuttled much of Arizona’s Papers Please law, which has similarities to Texas’ SB 4, Kennedy, Ginsburg, and...

12.04.2024 20

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5 Reasons Biden Should Negotiate a Deal to Free Assange

Resolving the case would enhance the administration’s tarnished human rights image.

28.03.2024 10

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Meet Clarence Thomas’ Likely Successor If Trump Gets a 2nd Term

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Ho may just be the most reactionary federal appellate judge in the country.

12.03.2024 20

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The Supreme Court Is Not Going to Save Us From Donald Trump

Years from now, historians will look back on the high-court’s bailout as a key inflection point in the decline of democracy and the rule of law.

06.03.2024 10

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Same-Sex Marriage Is the Next Right on Alito’s Hit List

The problem for defenders of marriage equality and gay rights is that the moderate Obergefell majority has been supplanted by an ultra-right super...

28.02.2024 20

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The Right-Wing Supreme Court Will Save Donald J. Trump Just Like It Saved George W. Bush

In the end, politics and not the law will lead them to rescue Trump from the insurrectionist label.

23.12.2023 10

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