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

Well, That Alabama Supreme Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Gutting IVF

Tragically, it’s not the first time that Owasso has punished one of its LGBTQ+ members. In April 2022, one of Benedict’s teachers at Owasso High School, Tyler Wrynn, was featured in a video by Libs of TikTok, a far-right account Continue reading Well, That Alabama Supreme Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Gutting IVF

The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness

If it does so, that will have ramifications for all unhoused people, from those who have been chronically homeless for some time to those currently falling into homelessness. And that last category is a large one: In the time since Continue reading The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness

Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling

The verdict caps a draining four-month civil trial of the former president that began after Engoron ruled that New York Attorney General Letitia James had already proven Trump committed bank fraud. In the ensuing months, Trump railed against the justice Continue reading Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling

The Supreme Court Could Radically Redefine the Right to Protest

The Supreme Court has routinely held that participants in nonviolent First Amendment activities, such as boycotts and protests, are constitutionally protected from civil lawsuits for the consequences of those activities. In the 1982 case NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Store, the Continue reading The Supreme Court Could Radically Redefine the Right to Protest

The Supreme Court Wants No Part of Disqualifying Trump From the Ballot

At least a few of the justices appeared to be worried that states would use bogus claims to disqualify otherwise legitimate candidates. These fears are not wholly unfounded. As I noted earlier this week, a coalition of Republican governors and Continue reading The Supreme Court Wants No Part of Disqualifying Trump From the Ballot

The Scene at Trump’s Supreme Court Case Is Creepily Cultlike

Over the last several months, Republicans have worked overtime to make a crisis out of the border without actually working to solve it. Republican governors are going toe to toe with federal agents along the Rio Grande section of the Continue reading The Scene at Trump’s Supreme Court Case Is Creepily Cultlike

Court to Oregon Republicans: That Stupid Boycott Is Going to Cost You

Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Continue reading Court to Oregon Republicans: That Stupid Boycott Is Going to Cost You

E. Jean Carroll Gives Unbelievably Amazing Description of Trump in Court

David Cohen, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, told The New Republic that the Pennsylvania government has a “very high bar” to clear to justify Medicaid excluding abortion coverage after this ruling. The government must prove it has a Continue reading E. Jean Carroll Gives Unbelievably Amazing Description of Trump in Court

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown on Medicaid Abortion Ban

David Cohen, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, told The New Republic that the Pennsylvania government has a “very high bar” to clear to justify Medicaid excluding abortion coverage after this ruling. The government must prove it has a Continue reading Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown on Medicaid Abortion Ban