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By Thom Hartmann | – (Via Yes! Magazine) – There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the Court to have as much power as it does today—Thomas Jefferson among them. My new book The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America dives into […]

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Trump’s Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS’ Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is accused of soliciting the help of a foreign government to dig dirt on, essentially to do opposition research for him, on his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. It should be underlined, though, that the possibilities for foreign interference in US elections is a much bigger phenomenon than simply this […]

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John Roberts, SCOTUS Chief Justice, Slams Trump in Extraordinary Rebuke

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“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges”

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The Kavanaugh Hearings Just Won’t Leave Me Alone

Belle Chesler

( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s been three weeks since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony before the nation and I’m still struggling to move on. As talk turns toward the impending midterms, I find myself mentally pushing back against the relentlessness of the news cycle as it plows on, casting a spell of cultural amnesia […]

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How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

Karen J. Greenberg

(Tomdispatch.com) – Amid the emotional hubbub over the predictable confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, there has been a largely overlooked casualty: the American judiciary. It’s not the end result alone — his addition to the highest bench in the land where he will sit for life — that promises to damage the country, but the unprofessional, […]

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After Mitch McConnell’s coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America

John Buell

The Supreme Court is a major force adding to systematic injustice

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Trump Claims America owes Kavanaugh an Apology after Senate Sexual Assault Testimony

Sebastian Smith

by Sebastian Smith | – Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump said Monday he was apologizing on behalf of the whole country to his new conservative Supreme Court justice after one of the most contentious confirmation processes in US history. At a White House swearing-in ceremony, Trump stood next to Justice Brett Kavanaugh and said […]

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Plutocratic Coup: Top Six Ways a Kavanaugh Court will Take us back to the Dark Ages

Juan Cole

Despite the considerable cloud over his head, Brett Kavanaugh was put on the Supreme Court on Saturday, in what may best be described as a plutocratic coup by the ruling-but-minority Republican Party. Since Kavanaugh succeeds Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often served as a swing vote on those occasions when a decision veered to the left, […]

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Irony: Nobel Peace Prize for anti-Rape Activist, as US Senate puts Alleged Abuser on Highest Court

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If the allegations of Professor Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh are true, then he was a juvenile criminal. He and a friend plotted out how to get girls inebriated, force them into an upstairs side room, turn up the music to drown out screams, jump on top of them, […]