Category: Law
Abortion Rights Aren’t Coming Back
Justice Alito’s leaked draft goes a lot further than ending the right to an abortion. What can Democrats do to mitigate the damage?
DON’T BUY ALITO’S ASSURANCES: HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT AFTER ROE FALLS
the question: what happens after this decision is formally handed down, likely in June? To paraphrase Shakespeare, Hell will be empty, and all the devils will be here.
The U.S. is barreling towards Dred Scott II
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
SCOTUS Is Eroding the Separation of Church and State
The Supreme Court has essentially handed them a roadmap to test their theory that if everyone just went to a nice Christian school and prayed a lot, everything would be super.
United Kingdom’s conversion therapy ban filled with poison pills
The proposal has carve-outs for religious-based conversion therapy that are broad enough to cover virtually any sort of therapy that assumes a veneer of religion.
United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal obliterates Keira Bell
The Appeals Court invoked the mercy rule usually reserved for lopsided T-ball games where one side is being so badly beaten the referees stop it to prevent one side from being further humiliated.
‘Law and Order’ Ends Nothing But Democracy
With Trump pulling all the strings from controlling the military and police force, to stacking the courts and effectively censoring the media, he’s setting up an autocracy.
Our Future Looks More Like Modern Russia Than Nazi Germany
When surfing the social media feeds of progressives, finding comparisons of Trump to Hitler, or of our government to Germany in the 1930’s seems inevitable. On the surface, these comparisons might seem apt. There is a highly authoritarian streak to this administration, and the movement behind it is undoubtedly fascist in its outlook. They’re doing…
The SCOTUS Event Horizon for the LGBT Movement
Stop for a moment. Imagine how bad it will be with a conservative Supreme Court ruling on a host of issues related to LGBT people in America. The reality is that what’s coming is way worse than anything you just imagined. In fact, the moment Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed, we pass through an event horizon,…