Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk
The New York Times
The White House took a step last week that significantly undercuts the idea that federal employment should be nonpartisan. No modern presidential administration has undertaken such an effort to staff the entire government with political loyalists.
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle. He had the audacity to suggest that “our sacred rule of law is under attack.
The Supreme Court is poised to open the floodgates to mandatory taxpayer support for religious education across the country, striking down restrictions on religious charter schools. The right-wing justices seem unconcerned about the consequences.
This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that made it hard for politicians to sue the press for defamation.
Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.
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