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Could Texas’ abortion vigilante law sabotage the open-carry goals of gun-rights groups? Justice Kavanaugh seems worried
A bizarre twist of fate.
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What is gerrymandering and why does a democracy allow it to be used to protect white power?
A legal history of congressional district map-making.
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Federal judge stops Texas' abortion vigilante law after dismantling it in written opinion
Robert Pitman is your new favorite person.
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How the right wing uses the Constitution and the Supreme Court to squeeze liberty out of Americans they don’t like
The right to harass, intimidate and threaten whomever they want.
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The state of our bail system is so corrupt you don’t need to be convicted to lose your rights -- or face a death sentence
How can we claim people are innocent until proven guilty?
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Do the Democrats have the incentive to attack not only the court's conservatives but the court's legitimacy? It seems so
Let's hope its polling slump is permanent.
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Democrats in the Congress should enshrine abortion into law with even stronger protections
We need abortion rights based on equal protection rather than privacy or free exercise of the rights of physicians.
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No, Roe's imminent demise won't drive conservative white women away from the Republican Party
It will create new enemies, though.
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The Republican Party overplayed its hand in Texas
A new abortion fight will mobilize a Democratic Party that has not foregrounded social policies so dramatically since 1965.
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Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug
The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.
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Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states
Overturning Roe would have affected national abortion coverage and abortion would have been immediately illegal in 13 states.
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By turning law enforcement over to 'abortion vigilantes,' Texas uses lawlessness to destabilize equal treatment under law
So far, it has the Supreme Court's blessing.