Listening to the oral arguments this week in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one thing seemed abundantly clear: Roe v. Wade will soon be overturned. This was clear in Chief Justice John Roberts’ line of questioning, as he lamely tried to get his conservative colleagues to stick to the …
Read More »Amy Coney Barrett Is an Emergency
This is not a drill. This is a judicial emergency. We are at DEFCON 1. These are not exaggerations. If the reports are true that President Trump plans on nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, we will be on the verge of the Supreme Court …
Read More »Wisconsin's Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
A Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot an unarmed black man seven times in the back. An armed teenage vigilante has been charged with five felonies for shooting three people, and killing two, at the ensuing protests. As marches continued, with armed white snipers observed on downtown Kenosha rooftops, the state’s …
Read More »American Plague
It was just a week ago now that Derek Chauvin, then still employed as a Minneapolis police officer, pressed his left knee into the neck of George Floyd for what, on video, seemed like an interminable amount of time. It was a total of eight minutes and 46 seconds, nearly …
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