by Lawrence Goldstone Conventional wisdom is that the Supreme Court is divided 6-3, with the (far) right holding the advantage over the (far) left. If that were true, there would be no hope for those on the left or even in the center of preventing the Court, which has become a de facto ...
Keeping up with the times is important A recent article in the Washington Post described President Biden’s pause to use outside experts to help him work through his approach to multiple crises facing his presidency as a diversion. The topic was the dire condition of democracy at home and ...
Most people are familiar with the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The incendiary rhetoric that has engulfed our political system has demonstrated that especially violent words can cause hurt, even death, to others. The most recent example ...
by Robin Abcarian Before we delve into the ethics of peacefully protesting in front of a Supreme Court justice’s home, I’d like to remind you about some of the havoc wrought by abortion foes after the court legalized abortion in 1973. In 1986, the clinic of abortion doctor ...
by Gene Collier The architect of this fresh American madness should take his rightful bows today, deep and from the waist, and it’s not Donald Trump, whose grasp of advanced legal concepts is only that he can’t be restrained by them. Sen. Mitch McConnell is the man of this ...
by Will Bunch Earlier this month, a speech warning about the dangers of politicizing the U.S. Supreme Court was delivered in Utah by an authoritative, insider source, who cautioned that “[a]t some point the institution is going to be compromised.” He voiced his growing concern that ...