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Brett Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh Sends a Strong Signal on How He’ll Approach Abortion Rights In a decision on an entirely different subject, Kavanaugh laid out a test for overturning Supreme Court precedents — like the right to an abortion.
2020 elections
Dec. 18, 2019
Collins Officially Running in 2020, in Race That Could Decide Senate Control She angered a lot of constituents with her pivotal support for Brett Kavanaugh, and will have a strong opponent.
the body politic
Oct. 24, 2019
Here We Go: Supreme Court Accepts First Big Post-Kavanaugh Abortion Case The Court could begin the long march back to a pre–Roe v. Wade era by validating laws designed to shut down abortion providers.
brett kavanaugh
Sept. 30, 2019
What Brett Kavanaugh Means to Conservatives A new book about Kavanaugh illustrates the way the story has become a weapon with which to bludgeon the press.
Should Democrats Plan on Packing the Courts in 2021? Certainly the threat of judicial reform should stay on the table so long as conservatives use judges to thwart democracy, as they did in FDR’s day.
brett kavanaugh
Sept. 17, 2019
All the Unanswered Questions From Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings In addition to the sexual misconduct claims, the confirmation process failed to fully resolve questions about Kavanaugh’s emails, debts, and finances.
supreme court
Sept. 17, 2019
What the Kavanaugh Book Actually Says About That New Allegation Drama surrounding a botched New York Times excerpt of ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ threatens to eclipse important revelations.
green new deal
Sept. 16, 2019
Another Obstacle for Climate Action: A Conservative Supreme Court A new study suggests SCOTUS could obstruct the Green New Deal just as it once obstructed the original New Deal.
vision 2020
Sept. 16, 2019
This Is Why Presidential Candidates Should Think Before They Tweet Democratic candidates might have waited a few days before invoking impeachment based on a New York Times story.
Everything We Know About Deborah Ramirez’s Allegations Against Kavanaugh A damning new report indicates that her claims were never fully investigated, even though she had potential witnesses who were willing to speak.
vision 2020
Sept. 16, 2019
Kavanaugh’s Impeachment May Have Just Become a 2020 Issue Multiple Democratic presidential candidates said Congress should hold Justice Kavanaugh accountable in response to new sexual misconduct allegations.
brett kavanaugh
Sept. 16, 2019
NYT Makes Major Correction That Undermines Its Big Brett Kavanaugh StoryA woman who Kavanaugh reportedly sexually harassed at Yale does not remember the alleged incident.
sexual assault
Sept. 16, 2019
What We Learned From the New Book on Brett Kavanaugh and His Accusers The book from two New York Times reporters reveals a previously unknown allegation, and offers new details from Ramirez and Blasey Ford.
sexual assault
Sept. 16, 2019
What We Learned From the New Book on Brett Kavanaugh and His Accusers The book from two New York Times reporters reveals a previously unknown allegation, and offers new details from Ramirez and Blasey Ford.
Kavanaugh Accused of Exposing Himself to a Second Yale Classmate The New York Times uncovered a previously unreported allegation against the Supreme Court justice.
Anti-Abortion Activists Object to State Bans — But Only on Tactics Anti-abortion leaders are discouraging extreme state abortion laws, preferring stealth until the time is ripe for a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade .
2020 senate elections
July 18, 2019
Susan Collins’s Approval Rating Dives As Reelection Contest Approaches The senator is losing popularity and is lashed to a president who is even more unpopular than she is in Maine.
supreme court
June 26, 2019
Gorsuch Gives SCOTUS Liberals a Win in Two Criminal-Law Cases His application of Scalia’s strict principles of statutory interpretation, and perhaps a libertarian streak, distinguish Gorsuch from Kavanaugh.
church-state separation
June 20, 2019
SCOTUS Splits on Church-State Separation in Peace Cross Case While in the minority in the “Peace Cross” decision, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered an eloquent testimonial for the “wall of separation.”
The ‘Tiger Mom’ and the Lie of Meritocracy Amy Chua created a brand preaching the values of hard work, but her daughter’s success points to something else.
brett kavanaugh
June 4, 2019
Democratic Leaders’ Reluctance to Wage Kavanaugh Fight Looks Even Worse Today Ryan Grim’s new book paints an unflattering portrait of Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein’s handling of the Kavanaugh confirmation fight.
kavanaugh watch
May 27, 2019
Is Justice Kavanaugh As Bad As Democrats Feared? Conservatives’ salvation? Cautious operator? Here’s what we’ve learned so far about the impact Kavanaugh will have on the law, and Americans’ lives.
reproductive rights
May 24, 2019
The Legal Fight Over Alabama’s Abortion Law Begins Other, less drastic abortion laws are more likely to provide Supreme Court conservatives with the pretext to begin unraveling reproductive rights.
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Aren’t the Georgetown Prep Twins After All The two Trump justices are showing some differences, with Gorsuch acting as the more rigidly conservative jurist. But over time they could converge.
supreme court
Apr. 23, 2019
Supreme Court Telegraphs Approval for Adding Citizenship Question to Census If the decision goes the way it appears to be going, states with many immigrants will lose federal funds and all sorts of political clout.
lgbtq rights
Apr. 22, 2019
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Anti-Discrimination Laws Cover LGBTQ Employees SCOTUS will clarify whether federal laws offer broad protections to LGBTQ employees. Kavanaugh’s presence on the Court creates grounds for pessimism.
mueller report
Apr. 17, 2019
Remembering the Starr Report As We Await the Mueller Report It’s unlikely Mueller’s report will have the seismic impact of the dirty book Ken Starr put together, which 20 million people read the first two days.
Why Kavanaugh Replacement Neomi Rao Is So Controversial Rao, who was confirmed to the nation’s second highest court, faced flak for her views on everything from date rape to deregulation to dwarf-tossing.
supreme court
Feb. 8, 2019
Brett Kavanaugh Knows Exactly What He’s Doing Unpacking his duplicitous dissent in the Louisiana abortion ruling.
supreme court
Feb. 7, 2019
Supreme Court Deals Blow to Anti-Abortion Movement, But It May Only Be Temporary Roberts joined liberals in keeping a lower court from defying Supreme Court precedents. What that means for the future of Roe v. Wade is unclear.
Scandal Engulfs Virginia’s Top 3 State Officeholders The governor and attorney general wore blackface. The lieutenant governor is facing sexual-assault allegations. The way forward is unclear.
We’re About to Find Out What Our New Supreme Court Thinks of Gerrymandering SCOTUS’s view on partisan gerrymandering probably won’t be good news for democracy.
senate judiciary committee
Jan. 3, 2019
Republicans Finally Appoint Two Women to the Senate Judiciary Committee Joni Ernst and Marsha Blackburn are trusted party loyalists and hard-core anti-abortion lawmakers who can provide cover for their party’s misogyny.
Everything Is Still Going Perfectly Fine for Brett Kavanaugh All 83 ethics complaints against him have been dismissed now that he’s on the Supreme Court.
supreme court
Dec. 10, 2018
What’s It Mean That the Court, and Kavanaugh, Sided With Planned Parenthood? The new justice voted with liberals in declining to hear a case that could have cut off funding for the group.
booker book review
Dec. 4, 2018
Anna Burns’s Booker Prize–Winning Milkman Offers Some Hope But No Change A surprise winner of the U.K. prize, Milkman is about Northern Ireland, #MeToo — and really any time or place — for better and worse.
consequences?
Nov. 27, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Is Already Back to Coaching Girls’ Basketball Weeks after he cried about Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations ruining his life, the Supreme Court Justice is back on the court.
Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out About the Threats She’s Faced “Words are not adequate to thank all of you who supported me,” she writes in her latest update on GoFundMe.
interesting times
Nov. 19, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: What Happens If Americans Stop Trusting the System? Our fractured politics — and growing distrust by many of key institutions — suggest a burgeoning national crisis of political legitimacy.
The GOP Thinks #MeToo Is a Chance to Exploit the ‘Biased’ Press But their attempts just show how much they get wrong about journalism.
the kavanaugh hearings
Nov. 8, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford Is Still Being Put Through Hell She’s had to move four times and hasn’t been able to return to her job.
the body politic
Oct. 28, 2018
The Ruling Minority Will Stop at Nothing to Stay in Control Which is why we need to pick ourselves up and keep fighting.
allegations
Oct. 25, 2018
Michael Avenatti Under Suspicion for Claims Made Against Brett Kavanaugh An NBC News report details discrepancies between statements Avenatti released from clients about Kavanaugh, and what those women told reporters.
The Future of Transgender Rights Now Rests With Brett Kavanaugh If the Trump administration redefines gender under Title IX, the issue will end up before the courts — and Kavanaugh will likely be the deciding vote.
black conservatives
Oct. 23, 2018
Black Conservatives Could Attract Black Voters If They Treated Them Like Adults A controversial radio ad in Arkansas showcases why Republicans fail to win black votes — even when they use black spokespersons.
trump rallies
Oct. 18, 2018
Trump Said the Midterm Elections Are About Kavanaugh During a hard-to-follow and often bizarre campaign event in Montana, Trump outlined what he believes will define the midterm elections.
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