Supreme Court

America’s future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood

By John Stoehr / December 9, 2021 /

My interview with Sea Change Radio’s Alex Wise.

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Lose Roe, lose right to privacy

By Mia Brett / December 9, 2021 /

Abortion, birth control, Internet usage, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy and even healthcare privacy are on the line.

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Democracy isn’t ‘backsliding.’ Equality is 

By John Stoehr / December 3, 2021 /

Equality has been presumed in the word ‘democracy’ since the postwar era. We may not be able to presume that much longer.

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Post-Roe, American women will be separate and unequal

By John Stoehr / December 2, 2021 /

The United States will be a crazy-quilt of abortion laws in which some women have rights and some don’t, depending on where they live.

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The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery

By Mia Brett / December 1, 2021 /

They are not respecting “life.” They are fearing “race suicide.”

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Could Texas’ abortion vigilante law sabotage the open-carry goals of gun-rights groups? Justice Kavanaugh seems worried

By Mia Brett / November 5, 2021 /

A bizarre twist of fate.

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What is gerrymandering and why does a democracy allow it to be used to protect white power?

By Mia Brett / October 21, 2021 /

A legal history of congressional district map-making.

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Federal judge stops Texas’ abortion vigilante law after dismantling it in written opinion

By Mia Brett / October 8, 2021 /

Robert Pitman is your new favorite person.

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How the right wing uses the Constitution and the Supreme Court to squeeze liberty out of Americans they don’t like

By John Stoehr / October 7, 2021 /

The right to harass, intimidate and threaten whomever they want.

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The state of our bail system is so corrupt you don’t need to be convicted to lose your rights — or face a death sentence

By Mia Brett / October 4, 2021 /

How can we claim people are innocent until proven guilty?

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