Glenn Greenwald: Trump-Appointed Judge BLOCKS Administration From Invoking Alien Enemies Act in Deportations
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Why Federal Courts Are Unlikely to Save Democracy From Trump’s and Musk’s Attacks
By Maya Sen / The Conversation State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage…
The Solution to Homelessness Is Housing
The Supreme Court just greenlit cruel measures to arrest and prosecute unhoused people. Instead, lawmakers should invest in what really works.
AOC Files to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito
The justices’ transgressions represent “one of the clearest cases” for impeachment, said Ocasio-Cortez.
SCOTUS Decision in Starbucks Case Will Impact the Labor Movement
The 8-1 ruling was a blow to union organizers, narrowing the authority of the National Labor Relations Board to seek remedies for terminated union activists.
Supreme Court Unanimously Concludes That Anti-abortion Groups Have No Standing to Challenge Access to Mifepristone – But the Drug Likely Faces More Court Challenges
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter / The Conversation On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decided to uphold access to mifepristone, one of two…
SCOTUS Blocks Mifepristone Challenge, Keeping Abortion Medication Legal for Now
The high court ruled that the challengers to the FDA approval of mifepristone lacked standing to make their case.
Clarence Thomas Encourages Constitutional Challenge To Whistleblower Law
United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas effectively invited corporations accused of fraud to bring a constitutional challenge against the False Claims Act, which could dismantle a law that whistleblowers…
Arkansas’s Anti-BDS Law Remains in Effect Because SCOTUS Refused to Review It
Politically motivated consumer boycotts have played a central role throughout U.S. history.
Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again) as Workers Die on the Job
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that…
Is SCOTUS on the Verge of Dismantling Labor and the Administrative State in One Blow?
By Nancy Snyder / CounterPunch On Tuesday, January 10, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the matter of Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local…
A Brief History of the Supreme Court’s Tyranny
Historically speaking, Trump’s Supreme Court justices are anything but an extreme aberration. In fact, they’re eerily closer to the norm of American history when it comes to the top court…
Right-Wing Extremists Are Making Fiction Come True
Can Democrats craft a winning message off a smorgasbord of misogynist madness?
Dobbs Is an Attack on Us All
We're just at the beginning of a growing response to the nightmarish all-American world of horror we’re now entering.
Tom Engelhardt: Life in This Literal Hell
There’s so much heat that we seem endlessly in the fires of this political moment. To top it off, our planet is already overheating not just politically or militarily, but…