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The Supreme Court just signed the death certificate of what remained of the Voting Rights Act. iPINIONS argues that the Roberts Court has turned democracy into a demolition derby, with Clarence Thomas serving as Pied Piper for a MAGA majority determined to recast protections for Black and Latino voters as racism against Whites. Read my… Read more.
Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice On this day in history, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice, shattering racial barriers. He was the brilliant mind behind the strategy that eradicated state-sponsored segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. He founded The Legal Defense Fund to aid the Civil Rights… Read more.
Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friends Justice Clarence Thomas reacted with righteous indignation when news broke about the luxury trips that billionaire Harlan Crow lavished upon him. Except that Thomas compounded his brazen venality by betraying willful gullibility. Because he wanted us to believe that Crow was just an old friend doing what old friends do. But everyone knows Crow wouldn’t have given Thomas the time… Read more.
Based on legal reasoning, precedents, and the justices’ sworn representations, the Supreme Court has no legal reason to end Affirmative Action in college admissions. But it had no legal reason to end a woman’s constitutional abortion rights. Yet the Court did so anyway. Mend, do not end, Affirmative Action Those arguing to end Affirmative Action insist… Read more.
Justice Clarence Thomas upstaged his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court with his concurring opinion when they overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) last month. They defied common sense to argue that the rationale they were using to do so only applied to abortion. Read more.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
It is axiomatic that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. That is clearly overstating the case. But it accurately reflects the outcome of grand jury star-chamber proceedings, which invariably lead to indictments. This is why news of a grand jury failing to indict is as newsworthy (or suspicious) as… Read more.
No doubt you recall Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s congressional testimony. She presented a very credible allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Her testimony should have disqualified him. But the intemperate and incredible way he defended himself proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he was unfit to serve. Despite all that, Kavanaugh… Read more.
Most Supreme Court justices are remembered for the precedent-setting decisions they write. But Justice Clarence Thomas will be remembered for something else entirely: the dark, silent shadow he casts over the court’s proceedings like a judicial zombie. Truth be told, no one expected Thomas to excel as a jurist. Not even George H. Bush, the… Read more.
