We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?
On birthright citizenship, we can thus follow Lincoln, or we can follow Trump. But we cannot follow both, because Trump is trying to undo precisely what Lincoln and his allies did, beginning eight score and three years ago.
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
Jackson handled the case as should be done on the emergency docket. Justices, she said, should deal with the requests "quickly, as transparently as possible, and for logistical reasons, not…make what amount to significant substantive decisions"
Our election system is reaching a breaking point. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber
The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.
If the court dismantles Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and allows overtly racist gerrymanders, one report estimates that Republicans will be virtually guaranteed an additional 19 seats in the 2026 midterms.
On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder what’s left of civil rights in this country.
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
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