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Poland’s Supreme Court…and ours
Don’t know if you’ve picked up on the news from Poland. In brief, Poland’s latest autocrat-in-chief “purged” Poland’s highest court, yanking judges whose views he found objectionable. But something funny has happened on the way to the “purge:” the Polish … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged autocracy, Lech Walesa, Malgorzata Gersdorf, Poland's Supreme Court, purge of Poland's Supreme Court, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States
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Gerrymandering: We are given reason to hope
OK, the Supreme Court Gill decision would have sunk me into the earth if I weren’t already there, given all the horrors surrounding us nowadays. And I was so, so crossing all my fingers and toes that Kennedy would determine … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged Brennan Center, gerrymandering, Gill v Whitford, James McGill Buchanan, June 30 immigration protest, Justice Kennedy, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, Nancy MacLean, political gerrymandering, SCOTUS, SCOTUS decision on gerrymandering, Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Paine Park, Tom Paine
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Stephen Reinhardt: Why our democracy is not the enemy
In today’s Times, Linda Greenhouse, who for many years covered the Supreme Court for the paper, wrote about Stephen Reinhardt, the federal appellate judge who sat on the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco. It is, as always with Greenhouse, … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged habeas corpus, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, liberals, Linda Greenhouse, progressives, SCOTUS, social justice, Supreme Court
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