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![]() Bill BlumCommon Dreams |
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.
In the aftermath of the apparent attempted assassination, the mainstream media have exhorted us to embrace a form of collective amnesia, and to forget...
Five things you need to understand about what this right-wing majority has just done.
The opinion proves beyond a reasonable doubt that we do, in fact, have Trump judges. And Roberts is the quintessential example.
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...
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...
Alito has been lying to the public since his Senate confirmation hearing, when he sought to portray himself as a judicial moderate, misrepresenting...
The outcome of the case could hinge on how the U.S. Supreme Court interprets a single word contained in the obstruction statute.
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...
Of the five-member majority that scuttled much of Arizona’s Papers Please law, which has similarities to Texas’ SB 4, Kennedy, Ginsburg, and...
Resolving the case would enhance the administration’s tarnished human rights image.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Ho may just be the most reactionary federal appellate judge in the country.
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.
The problem for defenders of marriage equality and gay rights is that the moderate Obergefell majority has been supplanted by an ultra-right super...
In the end, politics and not the law will lead them to rescue Trump from the insurrectionist label.