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19 hours agoIn America, Even Judges Have To Take Matters In To Their Own Hands - Above the Law
Judges are increasingly carrying guns for self-protection due to rising threats and inadequate security measures.
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1 year agoGay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may have helped create a constitutional crisis - LGBTQ Nation
Elon Musk's team gained unauthorized access to the federal payment system, threatening USAID operations and raising concerns about national security and economic stability.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
3 days agoOne Justice Just Took Surprise Aim at Brett Kavanaugh. There May Be a Bigger Strategy at Play.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticizes Justice Kavanaugh's support for race-based detentions, highlighting his lack of understanding of the impact on affected individuals.
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US Elections
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1 week agoTrump becomes first sitting president to attend supreme court as justices hear arguments on birthright citizenship - live
The Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship, with significant public demonstrations and Trump's unprecedented attendance.
US Elections
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoTrump becomes first sitting president to attend supreme court as justices hear arguments on birthright citizenship - live
The Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship, with significant public demonstrations and Trump's unprecedented attendance.
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3 weeks agoThe United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: Trump is aiming for a dictatorship'
Almost a quarter of the world experienced democratic backsliding, or a shift towards autocratization, in 2025, and six of the 10 newly regressive countries identified in the research are located in Europe and North America, including G-7 powers such as Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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1 month agoWhy international law is still the world's best defence
The post-World War II international legal order faces erosion from ultranationalism, great-power rivalries, and norm violations, risking a return to force-based politics where power supersedes principle.
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1 month agoMixing The Mixed Constitution - emptywheel
Burke's was a broadside that not only excoriated the social upheavals effected by the French revolutionaries and (by extension) commended by Marx, but the continual economic and social instability prized by modern liberal economic philosophy and practice. Against a new class of elites-mainly, an alliance between ideological progressive theorists and a rising financial oligarchy-Burke urged protection of the stability, tradition, and social continuities vital for the flourishing of ordinary people.
Left-wing politics
fromBig Think
1 month agoHow the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses
The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
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fromAbove the Law
4 weeks agoThe Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law
Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
Right-wing politics
fromThe Nation
4 weeks agoWhy Does the Supreme Court Treat Trump Like a "Regular" President?
The Supreme Court applies the presumption of regularity doctrine to Trump, assuming good faith and proper conduct despite evidence of illegal and unconstitutional motivations, creating a fictional version of the president divorced from reality.
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1 month agoJustice Gorsuch: Originalism Requires We Recall That The Founders Knew How To F-ing Party - Above the Law
Justice Gorsuch argues that founding-era 'habitual drunkard' laws cannot justify modern firearm restrictions for drug users, citing evidence that Founders consumed far more alcohol than modern standards would classify as habitual use.
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1 month agoJustice Gorsuch: Originalism Requires We Recall That The Founders Knew How To F-ing Party - Above the Law
Justice Gorsuch argues that founding-era 'habitual drunkard' laws cannot justify modern firearm restrictions for drug users, citing evidence that Founders consumed far more alcohol than modern standards would classify as habitual use.
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1 month agoJudge Newman Asks the Supreme Court to Intervene: Framing Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Imperative
Judge Pauline Newman, barred from judicial duties since 2023 without impeachment or disability finding, petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act's bar on reviewing judicial council orders.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks agoThe Supreme Court Just Heeded One of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Sharpest Dissents
The Supreme Court unanimously refused to immediately revoke Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, instead allowing full judicial review while maintaining their legal protections.
Law
fromThe Nation
1 month agoJamie Raskin Just Told John Roberts: "The Emperor Has No Clothes"
Representative Raskin told federal judges that threats against them stem from public misunderstanding of judicial roles, urging the judiciary to clarify that judges interpret law rather than implement political preferences.
US politics
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month agoThis Is What Democracy Looks Like
Recent federal actions have weakened voting rights protections established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, particularly affecting college students and first-time voters through investigations and restrictions on voting engagement studies.
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1 month agoExcerpt from 'The Cradle of Citizenship' by James Traub - Harvard Gazette
The same deep forces that afflict many Western nations have wrenched us apart: the transition to a postindustrial economy and the attendant erosion of working-class security, the demographic shift toward a "majority minority" nation, the cultural upheaval that has dethroned men, and especially white men, from their age-old dominance - and the rise of entrepreneurs of outrage eager to exploit all that free-floating anger.
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fromABA Journal
1 month agoNearly 200 former judges denounce claim that courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders
Over 175 former federal and state judges denounce Trump administration claims that district courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders, calling such attacks an extraordinary assault on the judiciary.
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoAutocracy is rising in the west. But the global south proves it's not inevitable | Kenneth Roth
Autocrats face growing internal pressure from their populations, while democracy remains valued globally despite Western challenges from far-right movements and disaffected voters.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months agoIn the Midst of a Crisis: Relational Liberalism and the Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Legitimacy
Contemporary democracies face a legitimacy crisis driven by widespread erosion of trust, causing representation breakdowns, unchecked power, and extreme asymmetries in wealth, status, and influence.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
1 month agoOp-Ed | The Trump administration believes that it has the right to decide what the rule of law is | amNewYork
A federal judge invalidated the Trump administration's policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to third countries rather than their home countries, ruling it violates U.S. law protecting against torture and persecution.
Law
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1 month agoStanding Up And Cheering For American-ish Principles - Above the Law
Trump's State of the Union challenge to Democrats about protecting American citizens over illegal aliens was a rhetorical trap that oversimplified complex policy issues requiring nuanced discussion rather than simple yes-or-no responses.
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2 months agoThousands Of Law Students Demand Congress Allow The Constitution To Apply To ICE - Above the Law
A student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability.
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US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoDemocrats have a constitutional power they aren't using to fight back: state resolutions | Sidney Blumenthal
Democratic state legislatures can revive pre-17th Amendment orders of instruction to pressure senators and counter attempts to impose a police state.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
2 months agoHas the constitutional order failed? Experts suggest U.S. is witnessing institutional collapse at New York state bar summit amNewYork
The U.S. has shifted from a constitutional crisis to systemic constitutional failure characterized by institutional breakdown across all three branches.
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama "Using the 14th"
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month agoRepublican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons
A proposed constitutional amendment would let Congress review and potentially nullify presidential pardons via a two-thirds congressional vote within 60 days.
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