| Jul 12, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAn older generation remembers President Richard Nixon desperately insisting, during the Watergate scandal, “I am not a crook.” Along the same lines, right-wing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett implores, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan...
| Apr 20, 2022 | Rights / DemocracyMuch ink has been spilled over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election, despite his wife’s participation in efforts to overthrow it. Those are sensible calls. But meanwhile, too little attention has been...
| Apr 30, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPerhaps the most important consequence of Donald Trump’s presidency has been the federal judiciary’s rightward lurch. As of April 1, he’d appointed a record 39 far-right judges to lifetime posts on the Supreme Court and federal circuit courts — more than half the...
| Apr 3, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
