After last year’s long list of 5-4 partisan decisions, and with this year’s biggest cases coming up in the next few weeks, this report jumps ahead to take an advance look at
Category: Courts
Top 10 Crazy Pure Partisan Supreme Court 5-4 Cases With Neil Gorsuch* Deciding, 2017 Term
It is hard to imagine a list of the top ten craziest 5-4 cases in a single Supreme Court yearlong term. But imagination is no longer needed because crazy is off the
After 5-4 Supreme Court Upholds Voter Purges, Report Shows 16 Million Purged in 2016 Election
The Brennan Center released a new report this week entitled Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote [PDF]. The detailed report shows excessive voter purging in all 50 states. A
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Want Tyrannical IRS Police Powers
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are the most “conservative” members of the Supreme Court (notwithstanding the new member, Neil Gorsuch who is hard to fully explain this early in his tenure). You
Justice Samuel Alito Almost Blows Ohio Voter Purge Case For Republicans, But Nobody Notices
Voter purging rules are currently awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court which just heard oral arguments in an Ohio case. The Court looked at many words and issues regarding vote purging.
Neil Gorsuch and 5-4 Supreme Court Hide Documents To Protect Donald Trump
A new 5-4 Supreme Court Order [PDF] permits the Donald Trump administration to selectively withhold government information from court cases. The specific case involves the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program,
Neil Gorsuch Confirmed, ‘Gift to the Billionaires and Corporate Interests’
A day after it triggered the so-called “nuclear option,” the U.S. Senate on Friday voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch
Written by Andrea Germanos, staff writer at original source Common Dreams.
Smoking Guns: SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch Not Only Wants But Expects Corporate Theocracy
Neil Gorsuch would use the Supreme Court to automatically place corporations above the law any time that the owners of corporations might consider compliance with the law “sinful.” Sincerity of beliefs would
Scalia Cut Religious Rights of People, Neil Gorsuch Added Religious Rights of Corporations
Special Report: How Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch created Corporate Personhood Religion to place corporate roadblocks between government benefits and citizens. Donald Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace the recently departed
Voters in Four States Reject Citizens United in Landslide Victories
Move To Amend, an organization formed to overturn unlimited campaign funding, published a summary of the results of Citizens United corporate speech related referendums in the 2016 election. All passed. Here is