Pema Levy and Ari Berman go double barrel on the true enemy of democracy in this country--John Roberts. The Roberts court has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way. In a matter of months, the...
John Roberts
That's the case Harold Meyerson makes: Taney, the chief justice who ruled against Lincoln in the habeas corpus case, is remembered today as the author of the Dred Scott decision, which declared that Blacks.
Anyone who cares about the public lands should be extremely concerned about John Roberts' opinion in rejecting a case that sought to overturn the giant marine national monuments created under.
In the initial Gilded Age, the courts took the 14th Amendment, tore it up as it applied to African-Americans, and created entirely new and unintended meanings for it as it applied to corporations, starting the nation down the road that has lately led to Citizens...
I have more substantive thoughts here. On the point of Roberts's fraudulent "minimalism," I should also note this bit of comedy from Roberts's concurrence, explaining why he voted to overrule.
Does this mean that Obama will try to have John Roberts arrested?