
Author: Scott Lemieux

A little birdie on Twitter pointed me to the Denver Post’s endorsement of Cory Gardner, the party-line Republican hack who would cast important votes for three members of the 5-member majority i
Talk about saying the quiet parts loud: U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley on Friday celebrated the U.S. Supreme court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, calling it a sweeping decision that w

I have a piece up at the Prospect about how elite complacency helped pave the path to Roe v. Wade. The Savvy pundit consensus has long been that it was hysterical scaremongering to point out that Repu
49 years of reproductive freedom in America are over. The conclusion of the jointly authored dissent: I will have more imminently.

Honestly, I’m surprised that even this was able to pass: The Senate passed a bipartisan measure aimed at gun safety, breaking a yearslong stalemate over federal legislation to address rampant vi
Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion holding that a New York statute enacted during the Taft administration was not part of the American tradition of regulating firearms while inventing a new fram

One reason to have very little faith in the future of American democracy is that even the minority of Republicans willing to stand up to Trump have been negatively polarized into moral bankruptcy: Fin
Finally, after a month, Pete Arredondo seems to be facing some consequences. But: Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police Chief Pete Arredondo has been placed on administrative leave am
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