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The power to check the Supreme Court is there, in the Constitution. The task now is to seize it.
We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.
The murder of George Floyd fueled the largest demonstrations for justice, liberation, and transformative policy change in American history. We are now living through a period of backlash to that moment. Juneteenth calls us to the work that remains.
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History books have called my father an activist, a community organizer, a freedom fighter, among other things. But they don’t use a phrase that my dad has used to describe himself: a war general.
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Felony disenfranchisement laws are rooted in the Jim Crow era and were implemented to suppress Black electoral power
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's final chief of staff supported the reckless pursuit of the “rigged election” fever dream which Trump personally began laying the groundwork for months before the election had even taken place, and still refuses to disavow
Conventional wisdom says that the rule of the majority is in unavoidable tension with the rights of the minority.
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