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Death-threat squads harass voting administrators out of their jobs, clearing way for election theft. It’s a slow-motion coup

By Lindsay Beyerstein / October 13, 2021 /

“They’re playing the long game.”

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.

Do the Democrats have the incentive to attack not only the court’s conservatives but the court’s legitimacy? It seems so

By John Stoehr / September 27, 2021 /

Let’s hope its polling slump is permanent.

Let the Haitians in, all of them

By Richard Sudan / September 20, 2021 /

The United States owes them that much.

Democrats in the Congress should enshrine abortion into law with even stronger protections

By Mia Brett / September 10, 2021 /

We need abortion rights based on equal protection rather than privacy or free exercise of the rights of physicians.

No, Roe’s imminent demise won’t drive conservative white women away from the Republican Party

By John Stoehr / September 9, 2021 /

It will create new enemies, though.

The Republican Party overplayed its hand in Texas

By Claire Bond Potter / September 9, 2021 /

A new abortion fight will mobilize a Democratic Party that has not foregrounded social policies so dramatically since 1965.

Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug

By John Stoehr / September 3, 2021 /

The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.

Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states

By Mia Brett / September 3, 2021 /

Overturning Roe would have affected national abortion coverage and abortion would have been immediately illegal in 13 states.

By turning law enforcement over to ‘abortion vigilantes,’ Texas uses lawlessness to destabilize equal treatment under law

By John Stoehr / September 2, 2021 /

So far, it has the Supreme Court’s blessing.