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Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts
Thursday, August 8, 2019

How the Supreme Court Is Rebranding Corruption — Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

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In thirteen years of hostile decisions, the Roberts Supreme Court has done all it can to legalize corruption. With the Bridgegate case, it ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Pam and Russ Martens — The Kavanaugh Nomination’s Money Trail Leads Back to Clarence Thomas

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Dark money and conflict of interest on SCOTUS. Sex scandal is just a canard. The real issues go far deeper. Not that the sex scand...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Kate Bahn — Understanding the importance of monopsony power in the U.S. labor market

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With the launch of our new website, we are reintroducing visitors to our policy issue areas. Informed by the academic research we fund, the...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Kate Martin — Neil Gorsuch was instrumental in defending George W. Bush’s torture program

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When Gorsuch took a job at the Justice Department in 2005, the department — then headed by President Bush’s former White House counsel Albe...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Martin Armstrong — The Supreme Court Just Created a Full-Blown Police State – The End of the USA Cannot Be Far Behind

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Citizens United was bad news for American democracy, this decision is very dire news for US liberty. Given the rise of total surveillance ...
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Friday, May 6, 2016

Fox — Trump To Name Supreme Court Nominees By July

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In an interview with Fox News, Trump said would consider “wonderful, conservative, good, solid, brilliant judges in the form of” the late J...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Reuters — Obama considering Nevada’s Republican governor for Supreme Court

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WTF Raw Story Obama considering Nevada’s Republican governor for Supreme Court Reuters
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Reuters — Senate Republicans vow to preemptively block any Supreme Court nominee from Obama

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Chairman Chuck Grassley and the rest of the committee’s Republicans sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying they wil...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Steven Rosenfeld — How Scalia's Death Could Upend the Presidential Election and Spark the Biggest Political Battle of Our Times

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This is actually a boon for democracy and electoral activism and participation since so many interests are involved on the political spect...
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Emily Atkin — After Scalia Death, Ted Cruz Says 2016 Election Should Be ‘A Referendum On The Supreme Court’

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The single-issue candidate. Before Scalia’s death, Cruz had repeatedly made the Supreme Court a centerpiece of his campaign, promising t...
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Dara Lind — Read Justice Ginsburg’s moving tribute to her “best buddy” Justice Scalia

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Respect versus reality show. The American public likes a reality show, so that's what they get. VOX Read Justice Ginsburg’s moving ...
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Brad DeLong — Scott Lemieux on How Nino Scalia Tried to Turn Jurisprudence into Partisan Professional Wrestling

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Scott Lemieux: "No discussion of Scalia’s legacy, for instance, can ignore the 2000 decision Bush v Gore, in which the court issued ...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

VOX — At least 14 Supreme Court justices have been confirmed during election years

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A key part of the conservative argument will be that it's unprecedented for the president to nominate a candidate during an election ye...
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Breaking — US Supreme Court Justice Scalia dead at age 79

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Shocker. RIP. BBC US Supreme Court Justice Scalia dies The Guardian Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79 Justice Scalia ...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Sara Jerde — Rubio: 'God's Rules' Win Over Supreme Court Decisions

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in a video posted Tuesday that he believes people of faith should ignore la...
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jeff Clements — When the Supreme Court is this wrong, it’s time to overrule them

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Surveys show that a large majority of American citizens across the political spectrum oppose the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United deci...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

If SCOTUS kills the subsidy part of Obamacare, the economy will feel it and stock rally will be over

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The Supreme Court will be hearing arguments soon on whether or not the government subsidies given out under Obamacare are legal. I...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Rutherford Institute — U.S. Supreme Court Rules 8-1 that Citizens Have No Protection Against Fourth Amendment

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In a blow to the constitutional rights of citizens, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Heien v. State of North Carolina that police office...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

David Kravets — Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to “Orwellian world”

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Let's hope that Sonia Sotomajor becomes the next William O. Douglas . Ars Technica Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Crying for Argentina

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Last week, the US Supreme Court made a decision that could force Argentina to pay American billionaire hedge fund managers the full value o...
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