My latest at the Diplomat amplifies my thoughts on Snowden: Of course, the United States isn’t the People’s Republic of China. Edward Snowden had plentiful opportunities to make his views regarding the extent of the national security state known without violating the law or committing espionage,...
While we wait for Paul's piece (PC update: link here) about Roberts's astoundingly weak justifications for striking down a major act of Congress, I thought I'd add a few additional.
Maybe so Lyndon. But it didn't last forever. Now we have to overcome again. John Lewis on what the Court decision means, stabbing the civil rights movement "in its very.
Over the past quarter century I've read a lot of SCOTUS opinions as a matter of professional obligation. The majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder is the worst SCOTUS opinion I've ever read, considered simply as an exercise in formal legal argument. And I've read...
Kind of an unfortunate day for Obama's climate change speech, not that it is his fault. I'll distract my attention from my outrage at the overturning of a huge part.
Shorter verbatim John Fund: "The Supreme Court’s decision today to overturn a small part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is actually a victory for civil rights." As a wise.
I have a piece up about today's Roberts Court atrocity. Read the whole etc., but I wanted to highlight a couple points. First, let's be clear about Congress's authority and why the majority's focus on state sovereignty is utterly misguided, by starting with what Roberts would...
It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.
I will have more on today's appalling disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act imminently. In the meantime, enjoy this column about why conservative constitutional arguments against affirmative action are wrong:.
It's worth having an open thread just to express anger and frustration over our Plessy-nostalgic Supreme Court ruling the most important section of the most important piece of civil rights legislation passed since the 14th Amendment unconstitutional. Will anti-lynching laws soon be ruled unconstitutional as well?...
The man who made Iraq, massive upper-class tax cuts and Sam Alito possible, while reassuring us all the while that a man who governed to the right of the Texas.
Not only does reasonable moderate Sam Alito show us that there is no difference between the two parties and elections don't matter and therefore because of Edward Snowden we should.