Because the Trump regime can't seem to bother doing any kind of background check on anyone it nominates, Republicans are in the middle of pushing through the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court despite a history of financial recklessness, ideological extremism ...read more
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a right-wing extremist who has a disgraceful judicial record when it comes to human, civil, worker’s and women’s rights. The White House and the Republican Party has also seen enough of his body of work to know that Kavanaugh, if appointed ...read more
Republicans have little to no use for democracy. We've known this for decades. It's why we had to pass the Voting Rights Act in the first place and why the extremists of the Republican controlled Supreme Court gutted it. With that pesky law out of the way, Republicans can now ...read more
Donald Trump used the bully pulpit of the presidency to recently announce his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on prime time TV. Initially when it happened, I viewed it as another example of Trump manipulating the media once again because Supreme Court nominations typically ...read more
I graduated from Northwestern University in 2012, and while I don't regret my experience there, I find myself frustrated by how not diverse it was. When I walked on to campus as a freshman in the fall of 2008, it was one of the least diverse groups to ever enter the university: ...read more
Sometimes I seriously believe the present-day Democratic Party is filled with the biggest conglomeration of pessimists and quitters in the history of American politics. Today, as many of us feared, another shoe dropped in the ongoing crisis of the Donald Trump presidency: Justice ...read more
Today, the Supreme Court voted to uphold Donald Trump's Muslim ban by a vote of 5-4,. Although Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg argued that the ban was motivated not by law but by racism, the conservative wing of the court won. Earlier this week they won another 5-4 ruling over ...read more
Chris Rock had a joke a back in the 90's about not bothering with gun control and making bullets cost $5000 each instead. Today, the Supreme Court gave the gun control movement the next best thing by affirming that while there is a second amendment right to own a gun, there's no ...read more