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We’re headed for a separation of powers showdown between Congress and the president that will ultimately end up in the Supreme Court.
As the Supreme Court moves increasingly to the right with the recent additions of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, we can expect the continued evisceration of civil rights and civil liberties.
Comcast is locked in a Supreme Court bound $20 billion discrimination lawsuit. The NAACP warns that if the cable company is successful, it could destroy protections provided by the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
How elections are stolen; Austin turns the tables on abortion funding; Arnautoff Murals; Progressive prosecutors; Ecofascism; Brutality at the camps; Sotomayor sounds the alarm
Do Republicans value democracy or the rule of law? The answer is clear, but there's still time to fight back. Our political system could be in peril. Democracy probably cannot survive if one of two major political parties is indifferent to its fate.
...the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm..., made moves...asking the Supreme Court to take up a case challenging the constitutionality of inclusionary zoning — a popular tool cities and states employ to increase affordable housing...
The next redistricting cycle, which begins in 2021, will be a frightening and unfettered orgy of stolen partisan advantage
The liberal justice blasted the Supreme Court’s conservatives for abdicating their duty and putting American democracy in danger
The unstraight scoop from NPR, Chuck Todd, NYT; Trump's everyday outrages; Female anchors fight back; AI and the election; SCOTUS social media crackdown
Byron Allen v. Comcast goes to SCOTUS; Rightist Media Power; T-Mobile-Sprint Merger; Tech Economy Brings Inequality; Media Workers Unionize; "When They See Us"; Readers Call Out NYT Warmongering
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