Trumpists in robes

Trumpists in robes

Editor’s note: This may be the last newsletter for a while. I’m taking an RV out west for most of July and will have little access to internet. If I have occasion to post, I will (I still have a lot to say), but don’t count on it. When I return, I’m going to move the...
The fight has just begun

The fight has just begun

The Supreme Court just delivered a devastating series of opinions designed to upend liberal policies that have been place for decades. The most high-profile case ended a woman’s right to choose when to become a mother, but other cases block states’ abilities to...
Cheering for a pyrrhic victory

Cheering for a pyrrhic victory

By noon today, we’ll have an answer as to whether a three-judge panel of Superior Court judges accepts the maps drawn by the legislature. The panel could reject them and draw their own or they could accept alternative maps drawn by other parties. Regardless, the...
Aid and comfort

Aid and comfort

Last week more clearly defined the direction in which the Republican Party is moving. Even relatively moderate conservatives blasted Joe Biden for pledging to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. They also went out of their way to defend the book-banning taking...
Judicial whiplash

Judicial whiplash

If you’re watching the redistricting court cases in North Carolina, you may suffer from whiplash. And it might not be over yet.  On Friday, a three-judge panel of Wake County Superior Court judges ruled that filing for legislative and Congressional seats could move...

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