The prohibition of racial discrimination in voting and the right to have absentee ballots counted are in grave peril. The Supreme Court appears poised to deal a severe blow to the fundamental right to vote in two cases this term. Louisiana v. Callais threatens the right to vote free from racial discrimination and Watson v. Republican National Committee will… Read more »
The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. In accordance with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s long-standing vendetta against Cuba, Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck. Trump’s order preposterously declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat,”… Read more »
The high court now requires its employees to sign nondisclosure agreements that threaten legal action for leaks. Two weeks after the November 2024 election of Donald Trump, the Supreme Court instituted a new policy to hide its actions from public scrutiny, according to a recent report in The New York Times. Chief Justice John Roberts told the court’s employees… Read more »
Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump. The Supreme Court’s new term, which began last week, presents the court with a monumental opportunity to hand Donald Trump unbridled executive authority and eviscerate the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution. The court appears poised to rubber stamp many of… Read more »
We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states. In what may prove to be the most consequential redistricting case to come before the Supreme Court, Louisiana is urging the court to gut the main provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) and ban any… Read more »
Suspending the right to challenge the legality of one’s detention in court would shred a core tenet of the Constitution. If White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through the heart of the Constitution. On May 9, Miller told reporters that the administration is… Read more »
Trump is making real the words of OMB director Russell Vought, who said “we are living in a post-Constitutional time.” No sooner did Donald Trump take the oath of office than he immediately took a wrecking ball to government agencies and programs that protect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. States, public interest organizations, schools,… Read more »
Trump’s appeal will decide how the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling applies to his hush money case. Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to delay sentencing him this month following the May 2024 jury verdict finding him… Read more »
Trump is claiming total executive power that would eclipse the legislative “co-equal” branch of government. In the weeks since the presidential election, president-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made a series of moves that indicate their intent to dangerously consolidate executive power under the controversial “unitary executive” theory of the Constitution. During the presidential… Read more »
Biden and Harris favor term limits and an ethical code for the Supreme Court and elimination of presidential immunity. The infamous 920-page Project 2025, which provides a blueprint for a radical right-wing agenda under a second Donald Trump presidency, doesn’t recommend any reforms to the Supreme Court — and for good reason. The conservative extremists who… Read more »