Supreme Court

Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer on Friday. She was one of the most visible justices during her 27 years on the Court, regarded with adulation by progressives, vilification by conservatives, and yet, this woman must be acknowledged as an excellent example of America’s freedom in action. As a Jewish woman, her social background and politics was different than that of a Christian conservative, and the ability she had to interpret the Constitution through that kind of lens is historically of extreme importance.

Pray RBG outlives McConnell and TrumpI often talk about how I went to the same high school as Bernie-- James Madison in Brooklyn. Bernie graduated in 1959, a couple of years before I started. And a few years before Bernie started, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a student there.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss two Supreme Court decisions related to US President Trump’s financial information, which on the surface may seem like defeats for Trump but in reality are political wins for the President.

The Supreme Court of the United States has barely had time to gather its collective breath this last few days.  Among its decisions, including those dealing with President Donald Trump’s financial records, was that of McGirt v Oklahoma. The case furnishes a detailed discussion on the extent Native American self-governance survived the assaults of the US Congress and the creation of the State of Oklahoma in 1907.

As usual, there was a lot of news yesterday-- head-spinning. But one thing that no-one should overlook is the importance of the Supreme Court striking down a Louisiana abortion law that was meant to prevent abortions in the state. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the 4 liberals on the Court to override the far right contingent working to overturn Roe v Wade.

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker

Yesterday Neal Katyal, a former Acting Solicitor General, and Josh Geltzer, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, penned a piece for The Atlantic on why Trump keeps losing at a conservative Supreme Court. "The legal reasoning may look like it turns on obscure technicalities," they wrote, "but the administration’s cases are falling apart because of something much more deeply wrong...

CHARLOTTESVILLE (Rutherford) –– The system is rigged, the government is corrupt, and “we the people” continue to waste our strength by fighting each other rather than standing against the tyrant in our midst.
Because the system is rigged, because the government is corrupt, and because “we the people” remain polarized and divided, the police state will keep winning and “we the people” will keep losing.

The system is rigged.
The system is rigged, the government is corrupt, and “we the people” continue to waste our strength by fighting each other rather than standing against the tyrant in our midst.
Because the system is rigged, because the government is corrupt, and because “we the people” remain polarized and divided, the police state will keep winning and “we the people” will keep losing.

-by Marge Baker,Executive Vice President,People for the American WayEven after two months into a national health and economic crisis, Donald Trump and his Republican cronies in the Senate have continued their assault on our federal courts. And while Americans from every walk of life are dealing with the devastating health and economic impact of this pandemic, Senate Republicans are quietly processing more of Trump’s judicial nominees.People For the American Way has led the charge against Trump’s dangerous judicial nominees since he took office.