Supreme Court

Yeah, no, Reconstruction laws were actually race conscious

By Mia Brett / November 4, 2022 /

Critics of affirmative action want you to believe that laws meant to protect Black people weren’t meant to protect Black people.

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Affirmative action isn’t bias. It’s politics that rightwing justices don’t like and will strike down

By John Stoehr / November 3, 2022 /

That’s what we should focus on.

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The Republicans want judges to define ‘Black’

By Mia Brett / October 25, 2022 /

We’ve been here before. It was bad then. It’s bad now.

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SCOTUS ignores its own rulings to keep executions going

By Mia Brett / October 20, 2022 /

A death row man ate his own eye. Justices said whatevs.

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Who needs affirmative action when we have racism?

By Rod Graham / October 12, 2022 /

Leveraging white power can produce the same results.

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Trust me, Ginni Thomas says. Democracy demands more

By John Stoehr / October 3, 2022 /

The truth is in plain sight.

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The Supreme Court’s dangerous abuse of religious exemptions

By Mia Brett / September 19, 2022 /

How far are the rightwing justices willing to go?

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What in the world is Lindsey Graham thinking?

By John Stoehr / September 14, 2022 /

His proposal would not only ban abortion nationally after 15 weeks, it would, in effect, ban democratic politics.

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Someone like Trump pleading the Fifth is funny, but the right against self-incrimination is no laughing matter

By Mia Brett / August 15, 2022 /

It’s just too perfect considering that Trump said in 2016 that, “if you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” 

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Time for a revival of the democratic imagination

By John Stoehr / August 8, 2022 /

The people, not the Supreme Court, decide on individual rights.

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