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June 8, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Keeps Chipping Away at Your Constitutional Rights
What recourse do ordinary citizens have when federal agents violate their rights? After Wednesday, not much.
June 7, 2022
Alex Thomas
Gun Companies Are More Vulnerable to Lawsuits Than You Think
Firearm manufacturers enjoy many legal protections from civil litigation, but gun-control advocates have found weaknesses that can be exploited.
June 6, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s June of Doom Is Upon Us
The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.
June 1, 2022
Matt Ford
Supreme Court Hands Social Media Giants a Win but Invites Conservatives to Try Their Luck Again
A shadow-docket decision spared Facebook and Twitter from a Texas law that would have prevented them from moderating their platforms.
June 1, 2022
Matt Ford
The Police Have No Reason to Help You
Cops have been given an incredible set of legal powers immunizing them from the fatal errors of their own decisions—including their decision to do nothing in Uvalde, Texas.
May 27, 2022
Matt Ford
Taking Cues From Texas, California Proposes Its Own Bounty Law—Against Guns
If it passes, the Golden State would set up a confrontation with the Supreme Court, which blessed the Lone Star State’s anti-abortion law.
May 26, 2022
Walter Shapiro
Democrats Need to Start Talking About Repealing the Second Amendment
It’d likely be a decades-long campaign, but it’s long past time to take disarming America seriously.
May 25, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Is Enabling America’s Gun Dystopia
After a long period of inaction on the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court is back to doing what it does best: making our world a more dangerous place.
May 24, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Decides Death Row Prisoners Don’t Deserve Competent Lawyers
The court’s conservatives have pared back the Sixth Amendment’s protections so that it won’t impede the state’s ability to erroneously execute the innocent.
May 23, 2022
Matt Ford
Abolishing Birth Control and Gay Marriage Is on the Table
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, and conservatives plotting a sexual counterrevolution, there’s no telling what rights might get abolished next.
May 19, 2022
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Is Throwing the Supreme Court’s History Out the Window
The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions and is showing no hesitation in pushing to erase long-standing precedents.
May 17, 2022
Matt Ford
American Politics Just Got a Little More Corrupt Thanks to Ted Cruz and John Roberts
Campaign graft continues its long-running undefeated streak at the Supreme Court.
May 16, 2022
Alex Thomas
Donald Trump’s Gaffe About
Roe
Has Become America’s Worrisome Future
The anti-abortion movement once recoiled at the former president’s assertion that women should be punished for having abortions. It’s since started to embrace his way of thinking.
May 16, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Public Defenders Are About to Be on the Front Lines for Protecting Abortion Rights
If
Roe
gets overturned, defense attorneys will face a wave of new prosecutions targeting pregnant people.
May 13, 2022
Maya Wiley
Hope Is Not Naïve; It’s the Only Path to Victory
Yes, we haven’t gotten all we want. But we have to let people know that the only way to get more is to vote.
May 11, 2022
Matt Ford
What Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law
A tour through the justice’s draft decision overturning Roe suggests he either doesn’t know—or doesn’t care—about centuries of progress.
May 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Overturning
Roe
Could Make Ectopic Pregnancies Extremely Dangerous
Treatment for this rare condition is separate from abortion care. But the sweeping abortion bans being considered in some states could have deadly consequences.
May 10, 2022
Katherine Stewart
How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights
Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft decision, steeped in authoritarian strains of religious dogma, is a road map for further erosions of the liberties all Americans enjoy.
May 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
With
Roe,
the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Car
Why Republicans don’t yet want to talk about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
May 9, 2022
Michael Tomasky
Mitch McConnell Said Something That Can Help Democrats Win the Midterms
Democrats need to see to it that McConnell’s remark about Congress possibly passing a federal abortion ban is known to every single American voter.
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