supreme court
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Leaked Emails Show Clarence Thomas’ Wife Supports Trump and His Muslim Ban: Report
Looks like Clarence Thomas’ wife is not only in support of the asshat-in-chief but actually sent out an email on a conservative Listserv trying to mobilize support around his policies. “What is the best way to, with minimal costs, set up a daily text capacity for a ground up-grassroots army for pro-Trump daily action items…
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President Pee-Pee’s Supreme Court Pick Started a Fascism Club in High School
So it turns out that back when Judge Neil Gorsuch—you know, President Pee-Pee’s nominee for the Supreme Court—was just a high school student, he founded the Fascism Forever Club. First off, what a dork. Second, really?! The 49-year-old nerd started the club as a freshman at the über-expensive elite Georgetown Preparatory School near Washington, D.C.,…
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Bracing Ourselves for Trump’s Possible Supreme Court Pick
Amid the resulting commotion from his latest executive actions, President Donald Trump announced Monday that at 8 p.m. Tuesday he would announce his pick to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. That’s right. The president gave us a heads-up that he would be making a major announcement of who may get one of the…
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Despite Protests, Trump Revives Pipeline Projects
A day after President Donald Trump signed executive orders to freeze most federal-worker hiring, remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and stop funding of all foreign nongovernmental agencies that perform abortions, he’s given the go-ahead for construction to continue on two controversial pipelines, the Chicago Tribune reports. In only his second day in…
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Appeal to Revive Strict Voter-ID Requirements
Score 1 for voting-rights advocates. On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear an appeal by Texas that sought to bring back the state’s strict voter-identification requirements, which had been found to disproportionately affect minorities, Reuters reports. In July 2016, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2011…
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Whiteness Wants Clarence Thomas to Have Prominent Place in National African-American Museum
I don’t think Sen. John Cornyn III (R-Texas) understands how this works. I could be wrong, but I don’t think you need a white sponsor to be inducted into the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In fact, I don’t think you get inducted, since it isn’t the Hall of Fame. I surely…
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Trump's Victory Equals Conservative Majority on Supreme Court
Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election Tuesday means that a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is not too far behind. In his action plan for the first 100 days of his presidency, Trump promised to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. With a Republican majority in…
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Anita Hill Paved the Way for Donald Trump Accusers to Speak Their Truth
This month marks 25 years since Anita F. Hill sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testified about sexual harassment by then-Supreme Court hopeful Clarence Thomas. She testified about his commentary regarding her physical appearance and someone leaving a pubic hair on his soda can. It was shocking. Fast-forward to 2016, and here we are…
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Colin Kaepernick on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Comments: ‘It Is Disappointing’
Colin Kaepernick admits that he was disappointed to learn that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg finds his and other NFL players’ protest against over-policing of African-American men, women and children to be “dumb and disrespectful.” During an interview with Katie Couric, RBG noted that she wouldn’t have someone who protested by burning a flag thrown…
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Racial Bias Got Duane Buck the Death Sentence; the Supreme Court Can Fix It
The perceived criminality and dangerousness of black men in the United States has a long and storied history. Black men are killed, become hashtags, and their names become etched into an American lexicon of atrocities against blackness. Terence Crutcher. Philando Castile. John Crawford III. Duane Buck could be next. “Nobody in this room is unaware…