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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Christine Blasey Ford, a professor of Psychiatry at Palo Alto University and an affiliate at Stanford University, gave a harrowing interview in the Washington Post Sunday accusing a young, drunk Brett Kavanaugh of having attempted to rape her. He tore, she alleges, at the bathing suit she was wearing under […]

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Accusation of 1980s Sexual Assault Dogs Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee

AFP

Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump’s conservative pick for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh denied Friday involvement in an alleged sexual assault on a woman while they were in high school in the 1980s. In a statement released to US media, Kavanaugh rejected the woman’s claim, made in a letter to the Democrats vetting his […]

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Are your Personal Liberties at Stake if Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court?

Olivia Alperstein

If Americans lose the right to privacy enshrined in Roe, they’ll lose a lot more than abortion access

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Does this Change Everything? Kavanaugh Pick Cements Generational Rightward Tilt on Court

Michael Mathes

The decision cements a rightward tilt on the top judicial body

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With Kennedy’s Vacancy, Only Voting Can Check One-Party Rule

Chris Winters

Now only voter pushback can restore balance to Congress

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The Gorsuch Court is Crushing Workers and Democracy: Can Dems find the Courage to Fight Back?

Peter Certo

Progressive grassroots groups are on the march, but is it too little too late?

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Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes

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By Ryan Gabrielson | ( ProPublica ) | – – ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases of great import. In 2007, a group of California Institute of Technology scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against the […]

Bill of Rights

Trump’s national anthem outrage ignores decades of Supreme Court rulings

Juan Cole

First Amendment at Stake

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Corporatocracy: Al Franken shows Gorsuch Cold-Hearted toward Freezing Trucker

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Amy Goodman | Democracy Now! | (Video News Clip) | – – Transcript via Democracy Now! ALPHONSE MADDIN: In January of 2009, I was working as a commercial truck driver for TransAm Trucking Incorporated of Olathe, Kansas. I was hauling a load of meat through the state of Illinois. After stopping to resolve a discrepancy […]