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)
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
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.
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.
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.
Numerous federal district judges around the country have blocked major portions of Trump’s early agenda — but Supreme Court showdowns loom.
The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.
The future of labor law has rarely looked so perilous for unions.
Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today.
Idaho, Kansas and Missouri in seeking to establish standing to outlaw mifepristone argue cause "a loss in potential population or potential population increase,” and that “decreased births” were inflicting “a sovereign injury to the state itself.
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