Tag: Supreme

Hello there, Citizen, with self-inflicted head-scratching wound. Desist thy scratching! I, a Supreme Court Justice who sided with the majority in the Affirmative Action decision, am here to explain the things that confound you: why I prefer aisle seats, why I eat cereal with chocolate milk, and oh y...

An incredibly compelling and thoughtful read, Cohen makes the case in Supreme Inequality that the progressive, forward-thinking, civil-rights crusading Supreme Court of the 1960’s Earl Warren years are no more, and that, since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and his subsequent ...

Tomorrow afternoon, President Donald Trump is set to announce his Supreme Court pick: Amy Coney Barrett. If she is confirmed, Barrett will fill the seat of storied justice, legal scholar, and women’s rights pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died earlier this month at the age of 87. Un...

The latest Originalist stupidity is United States v. Rahimi. Rahimi’s lawyers argue the Second Amendment gives all American criminals a right to own guns. Police took Zackey Rahimi’s guns because he assaulted his girlfriend, shot at people in the streets, shot at other dri...

The January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot: A Turning Point The events of January 6 have been etched into the annals of American history, not just as a day of unprecedented turmoil at the U.S. Capitol but as a catalyst for a series of consequential legal and political debates. These discussions have center...

On October 31, the US Supreme Court will hear two cases that will determine the future of race-conscious affirmative action. The most likely outcome is that the court will decide to outlaw the consideration of race in college admissions. There has long been disagreement about affirmative action&r...

When I was a newly hatched lawyer, I handled a small trial in rural New Mexico. A woman slipped and fell in her cowboy boots, hurt her knee and sued the local grocery store. It was the kind of small dollar case that baby lawyers cut their teeth on. My opponents were a couple of local boys whom th...

The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overruled a lower court’s decision allowing a pregnant woman to have an emergency abortion, dealing a severe blow to women’s rights. The Texas Supreme Court’s decision stunned advocates for women’s rights. The decision followed t...

The Trump case comes at a time when the court’s approval rating is at an all-time low. The bulk of the American people now feel that the court itself is extremely partisan. There will be entire generations of children that grow up with less rights than that of their parents and even grandparen...