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Kimberly Atkins StohrCommon Dreams |
Biden now has a chance to not only wield a crucial tool to advance criminal justice but also strike back at the nation’s burgeoning bloodlust.
If you don’t think you and yours have skin in this particular game, think again.
The ire you may feel over the lack of accountability for Trump’s lawlessness is righteous. Just make sure your aim is right.
What will the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, which Trump helped to build, have to say about Trump’s view that biding by the...
My job may be to sort out what the election means for the Supreme Court, reproductive health care, and the guardrails of our democracy. And I’ll get...
Donald Trump has repeatedly called the American people "the enemy within." Harris called on their better angels with a pitch-perfect case...
So far, judges are protecting our democracy from the GOP’s flood of baseless election-related legal attacks. Can that safeguard hold?
We can see the decline in the former president’s ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English...
Their own precedent looks pretty sharp when it’s staring back at them.
Tim Walz cut through JD Vance’s attempt to smooth talk his way out of acknowledging the truth: He is the running mate of a man who tried to...
The show 'Veep' demonstrated the sometimes hilariously amorphous nature of the job. But the prospect of JD Vance being one heartbeat away...
Legal challenges are flying fast and furiously over efforts to interfere with the election results even before ballots are cast or counted.
"A binding code of ethics is pretty standard for judges, and so I guess the question is: Is the Supreme Court any different?" Justice...
Democrats should be screaming about the Supreme Court from the rooftops. Why aren’t they?
The tendency for many in my industry to let the vast majority of Donald Trump’s harmful false statements go unchecked — it’s just Trump being...
While such conservative gambits were carried out under the radar years ago, now people are paying attention.
If Vice President Kamala Harris is the nominee, Democrats must fight the torrent of misogynoir that she will face, rather than leaving that work for...
Republican platform embraces Project 2025 and is a threat to democracy, but instead of ringing the alarm bells, the press keeps its focus on Biden’s...
When the rubber meets the road, she has delivered exactly what conservatives wanted. Her resistance only comes when she’s not a deciding vote.
Presidential campaigns are not fantasy sports leagues, with easy levers to pull to maneuver into a more ideal position, including swapping out...
No, the rights to free speech and religious liberty are not under attack, despite warnings from Justice Samuel Alito. But his dissent serves as a...
According to the US Chamber of Commerce, there are 4 million more job openings than available workers to fill them. One major driving factor is...
President Biden reacted to his son’s conviction as a father, an American, and as a president. Trump, conversely, acted like an autocratic baby after...
Merrick Garland needed to roar. He barely meowed.
Trump’s veepstakes is proving the corruptible lure of proximity to his despotic power, even for those who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.
How can we trust that the court’s gerrymandering decision wasn’t biased by Justice Samuel Alito’s favor of conservative causes? We can’t.
Elections are won in the margins of battleground states, which is why the pro-Trump spot is running on urban radio stations in Michigan, Georgia,...
Her story rings true to women who have experienced being in a situation they didn’t want to be in — particularly one of a sexual nature.
Donald Trump should finally face real, tangible consequences for his nonstop disdain for the rules that bind him just like the rest of us. Judges in...
The Framers would laugh at Trump’s immunity claim. So why are the court’s constitutional originalists taking so long?
Special counsel Jack Smith knew exactly what he was doing when he chose to charge Trump with obstructing an official proceeding — and the justices...
If there was ever a moment to really put country over party, it’s now: by voting, just once, for Biden.
It wasn’t only the more liberal members of the court who spent part of Tuesday’s argument lamenting the burgeoning phenomenon of nationwide...
Retired Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer’s candor about the state of the court is refreshing and much needed.
Former special counsel Robert Hur made it a lot harder for Americans to know who or what to trust.
Thomas’s excuse to flout recusal guidelines was already written into the very toothless rules that govern him. As a result, our democracy has lost...
Republicans are on a mission to roll back the power of federal agencies, and they know that they have GOP-appointed federal judges and a conservative...
Such a position is not a panacea for restoring the public trust, but it’s a good start.
Through inaction, several members of the court’s conservative majority are signaling loud and clear their views on academic diversity, LGBTQ rights,...
Maria W. Stewart rose from indentured servitude to become not only the nation’s first Black female published political writer, but also the first...
Trump’s case is weak, but that doesn’t mean he will lose.
The idea of a Trump alternative in the GOP race, for those who wished for one, was just that: wishful thinking. But it doesn’t mean that the GOP...
If you own or work at a business that requires capital, if the value of your home or other property is important to you, or if you want adequate...
While the law struggles to catch up, candidates and prosecutors must use existing law to try to curb AI-generated disinformation.
Trump may lose in court, but he made the case that a vote for him in 2024 is a vote for presidential lawlessness. Americans must take him at his word.
Black women in academia feel disposable.
What can we learn from George Bailey in "It’s a Wonderful Life"? Without leaders who encourage us to trust in each other, our nation —...
If Donald Trump’s GOP primary opponents are really interested in defeating him, most of them have got an interesting way of showing it. Or rather...
Special counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election are...