Supreme Court Upheld Birthright Citizenship, but Ruling Should Have Been Unanimous
The decision had the narrowest possible majority, and Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent is an ominous sign.
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Supreme Court Continues to Dismantle Anticorruption Laws
Its latest decision to strike down campaign finance limits underscores the need for Congress to pass popular anticorruption reforms.
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“It Ends in a Monarchy”
Trump the businessman said, “You’re fired”; Trump the president is fighting in court for the right to say those words whenever he wants.
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The Supreme Court’s Hermetically Sealed Logic on the Voting Rights Act
In decimating one of the most sacred and popular pieces of legislation in American history, Justice Samuel Alito quotes himself.
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Finishing Off Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court Declares Racism Over — Again
The Court’s conservative majority used outdated examples to say the racial gap in voter turnout has closed, but in reality, the gap is growing.
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Chief Justice Roberts’s Vendetta Against the Voting Rights Act
He’s been railing against it since the early 1980s.
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Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara
Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship.
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Supreme Court Could Protect the Right to Vote for Military and Overseas Voters
The Brennan Center is urging the Court to uphold Mississippi’s law providing grace periods for mail ballots.
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How Supreme Court Rulings on Redistricting Have Undermined Voters of Color
Far from calling balls and strikes, the Roberts Court’s record shows a pattern of altering fundamental rules for our system of elections.
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Supreme Court Poised to Take Another Swipe at Campaign Finance Law
Congress, not the Supreme Court, should make the rules for political party fundraising.
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