Another one about the Supreme Court’s likely decision, unthinkable just a few months ago. If the Court throws this back to Congress, it may be another generation before Americans can enjoy the health care security that every other industrialized democracy enjoys. In the meantime, more millions will be unable to afford or even find insurance, [...]

The Supremes seem poised to rule against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate that everyone buy health insurance. Big surprise there, from a radically right-wing activist court, with the five justice majority willing willing to twist themselves into pretzels to achieve the desired outcome. What they will leave is a broken  health care system that’s [...]

The Supreme Court’s dismissal of the class action suit by women employees of Walmart should not come as a surprise. The Roberts Court has been almost unremittingly hostile to employees, and equally friendly to corporate interests. Nor should it surprise anyone that the Court, once again, reached beyond the narrow claims of the case to [...]

The Supreme Court has always divided on ideological grounds, but I’m not sure if I’ve seen the Court divide on such politically partisan grounds in my lifetime. In the past, justices often ended up, after a few years on the Court, on the opposite side of the political divide from the presidents who nominated them. The [...]

The import of the Supreme Court’s drastic over-reach in the Citizens United case is coming painfully clear. Tens of millions of dollars in anonymous campaign contributions are pouring in to groups free to spend on this election with absolutely no accountability for where the money came from. Groups with innocuous names like The American Future [...]

The New York Times noted that in the four months the Supreme Court has debated overturning the Chicago gun ban, 10,000 Americans have died as a result of gun violence. In another bold foray into judicial activism, the Roberts Five has imposed its preferences on the Constitution, blithely ignoring  half of the Second Amendment. The [...]

The Roberts Court continues its assault on campaign finance sanity, striking down an Arizona law which has worked well over the years to level the playing field, allowing candidates encumbered by the need to raise campaign funds to compete against self-funded multi-millionaires. The Court’s reckless activism is upending decades of legal precedent, and in the [...]

Now it’s Judge Sotomayor’s turn to be at the center of the Cirque du Hypocrisy, otherwise known as the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Supreme Court nominee’s qualifications. Everyone involved knows that, if no smoking gun has been found by now, Sotomayor will be confirmed easily, but the game must be played as if [...]

I’ve grown increasingly tired of the fights over Supreme Court nominees. No matter who the current occupant of the White House names, you can be sure there will be strident objections from the opposing party. Too conservative, out of the mainstream, too liberal, a judicial activist, a sexist, a racist, etc., etc. Oh, sure, there [...]