by Press | Jun 27, 2019 | Newsclips
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court’s decision stopping the Department of Commerce from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. At its most basic level, the decision upholds the primacy of the Supreme Court as the ultimate...
by Press | Jun 25, 2019 | Newsclips
WHEN IT COMES to conservatives and the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion and labor rights are often considered among their prime targets. Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the court last fall, though, opened the road for a host of other challenges for which conservatives...
by Press | Jun 25, 2019 | Newsclips
I recently met a man who says he would have proudly served as a Nazi guard at Auschwitz. “You could have killed – you could have killed children?” I asked him. “That potential rests inside every human being given the right or the wrong pressures and...
by Press | Jun 24, 2019 | Newsclips
The Supreme Court held on Friday that a black Mississippi death row inmate should get a new trial, saying that the prosecutor who tried him six times for murder engaged in unconstitutional racial discrimination when striking African-American jurors from the...
by Press | Jun 21, 2019 | Newsclips
In a concurring opinion in a Supreme Court case announced Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas issued a lengthy call for his colleagues to overturn “demonstrably erroneous decisions” even if they have been upheld for decades —...
by Press | Jun 17, 2019 | Newsclips
A national family and medical paid leave program must be passed by Congress to ensure all American workers can care for their families without worrying about jeopardizing their income, according to officials at The Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, a...