Conservative Judges Sound Alarm: Trump Will Shred Our Justice System

Lopez has backed banning abortion with no exceptions and falsely claimed that climate change isn’t caused by human activity. His conservative beliefs should be no surprise, given the strength of the Republican Party in the 4th district. Buck was similarly Continue reading Conservative Judges Sound Alarm: Trump Will Shred Our Justice System

Wannabe Conservative Influencer Arrested on January 6 Charges

A conservative influencer has been arrested for participating in the January 6 insurrection. Isabella Maria DeLuca faces a total of five misdemeanor counts: one each for theft of government property; entering restricted buildings or grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in Continue reading Wannabe Conservative Influencer Arrested on January 6 Charges

The Most Conservative Jurists in America Have Lost the Supreme Court

S.B. 4 is an unusual measure by any standard. The statute allows Texas to more or less enforce its own immigration laws. Under S.B. 4, illegal entry into the United States is a state-level crime, empowering state law enforcement agencies Continue reading The Most Conservative Jurists in America Have Lost the Supreme Court

How a Supreme Court Leak Helped Conservative Justices Unite to Overturn Roe

The report also depicts an effort by Alito to force the other conservative justices to help him overturn Roe after Ginsburg passed—including by secretly sharing a draft opinion with conservative allies. Once Alito circulated his draft opinion amongst the members Continue reading How a Supreme Court Leak Helped Conservative Justices Unite to Overturn Roe

Conservative Judges Are Dismissing Decades of Precedent to Try to Kill the Voting Rights Act

“Taken at face value, these statements appear to create an open-and-shut case that there must be a way to privately enforce Section 2,” Stras wrote. “If five Justices assume it, then it must be true. The problem, however, is that Continue reading Conservative Judges Are Dismissing Decades of Precedent to Try to Kill the Voting Rights Act

Book Bans Are a Conservative Plot to Destroy Public Schools, Says Randi Weingarten

Teachers union head Randi Weingarten says that the campaign by conservatives to ban books isn’t about the books at all, but part of a broader strategy to destroy public schools—one that was supercharged by the pandemic. “You take the agita Continue reading Book Bans Are a Conservative Plot to Destroy Public Schools, Says Randi Weingarten

The Conservative Who Turned Against Corporate America

For Ahmari and his fellow Compact writers, there is no enemy more despicable than liberalism. Last year, the magazine’s co-editor Matthew Schmitz, another convert to Catholicism, paraphrased an old quip from Norman Mailer: “You can call me anything you want, Continue reading The Conservative Who Turned Against Corporate America

We Are Still Waiting for a Convincing Conservative Attack on Bidenomics

By now you’re well familiar with the right-wing knock on Bidenomics, which is mostly that it created ruinous inflation. That’s pretty obviously wrong. Inflation has fallen by two-thirds over the past year, and French economist Olivier Blanchard, who had predicted Continue reading We Are Still Waiting for a Convincing Conservative Attack on Bidenomics

The Conservative Legal Roadmap to Disqualify Trump From Office

A three-judge panel in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately rejected the judge’s interpretation of the 1872 law—though it declined to either disqualify Cawthorn himself or delve into Section Three in greater detail. (Cawthorn was later defeated in a Continue reading The Conservative Legal Roadmap to Disqualify Trump From Office