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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Supreme Court
Accusation of 1980s Sexual Assault Dogs Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee
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 […]
Are your Personal Liberties at Stake if Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court?
If Americans lose the right to privacy enshrined in Roe, they’ll lose a lot more than abortion access
Does this Change Everything? Kavanaugh Pick Cements Generational Rightward Tilt on Court
The decision cements a rightward tilt on the top judicial body
With Kennedy’s Vacancy, Only Voting Can Check One-Party Rule
Now only voter pushback can restore balance to Congress
The Gorsuch Court is Crushing Workers and Democracy: Can Dems find the Courage to Fight Back?
Progressive grassroots groups are on the march, but is it too little too late?
Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes
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 […]
Trump’s national anthem outrage ignores decades of Supreme Court rulings
First Amendment at Stake
Corporatocracy: Al Franken shows Gorsuch Cold-Hearted toward Freezing Trucker
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 […]
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