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Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0

Meagan Day Jacobin
Is it possible for American democracy to be further degraded by the influence of billionaires? Thanks to champion of the working class J. D. Vance and his right-wing friends, including “dark money kingpin” Leonard Leo, we may soon find out.

This Week in People’s History, May 7–13, 2025

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Cartoon of Herbert Hoover staring glumly at the ashes of John Parker's Supreme Court nomination A Racist, Anti-Worker Judge? Not This Year (1930), Curtains for Smallpox (1980), Covid Kills Jobs, Too (2020), The Road to Revolution (1775), A Bad, Bad, Day in Augusta (1970), Even a King’s Word Is Not Law (1215), Red-Baiters Go Home! (1960)

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With His New Film, Alex Gibney Shines a Light on Dark Money

An interview with Alex Gibney Jacobin
Jacobin sat down with the prolific muckraking filmmaker Alex Gibney to discuss his new documentary The Dark Money Game, on the terrifying ramifications of Citizens United and how it’s empowered the same oligarchy now unleashed by the Trump administra

We’re Now on the Fast Track to a Historic Constitutional Clash

David Kurtz Talking Points Memo
It looks like potential contempt proceedings in the Alien Enemies Act case and the Abrego Garcia case will be running in parallel, leapfrogging each other for the right to be the Supreme Court’s biggest test so far of the Trump II presidency.

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid

Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H. Tribe The New York Times
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants... If the government can disappear any people it wishes, we all should be very, very afraid.
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