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June 25, 2022
Jason Linkins
The Democrats’ Theory of Change: Wait for the Republicans to Screw Up
The party tends to succeed only after the GOP brings disaster. Meanwhile, conservatives are busy executing decades-long plans that are transforming the country.
June 24, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices Rip Their “Aggressive” Conservative Colleagues
In their scathing dissent, the court’s minority write that their fellow justices have abandoned any claim to legitimacy.
June 24, 2022
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Will Wipe Out Marriage Equality and Contraception Next
The right-wing justice has invited conservatives to challenge these long-established rights in court.
June 23, 2022
Grace Segers
Democrats Should Have Seen the End of
Roe
Coming
An imminent Supreme Court decision that’s likely to upend reproductive rights in America is the culmination of decades of investment by the anti-abortion movement.
June 20, 2022
Simon Lazarus
Liberals Need to Beat Samuel Alito at His Own Game
To win the war over the Constitution, the justice’s hollow originalist pretenses must be unmasked—and countered with new and forceful legal arguments.
June 6, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s June of Doom Is Upon Us
The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.
May 23, 2022
Matt Ford
Abolishing Birth Control and Gay Marriage Is on the Table
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, and conservatives plotting a sexual counterrevolution, there’s no telling what rights might get abolished next.
May 19, 2022
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Is Throwing the Supreme Court’s History Out the Window
The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions and is showing no hesitation in pushing to erase long-standing precedents.
May 16, 2022
Alex Thomas
Donald Trump’s Gaffe About
Roe
Has Become America’s Worrisome Future
The anti-abortion movement once recoiled at the former president’s assertion that women should be punished for having abortions. It’s since started to embrace his way of thinking.
May 11, 2022
Matt Ford
What Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law
A tour through the justice’s draft decision overturning Roe suggests he either doesn’t know—or doesn’t care—about centuries of progress.
May 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Overturning
Roe
Could Make Ectopic Pregnancies Extremely Dangerous
Treatment for this rare condition is separate from abortion care. But the sweeping abortion bans being considered in some states could have deadly consequences.
May 10, 2022
Katherine Stewart
How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights
Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft decision, steeped in authoritarian strains of religious dogma, is a road map for further erosions of the liberties all Americans enjoy.
May 9, 2022
Matt Ford
The Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute
Roe
Goes Down
Conservative lawmakers across the country have enacted “trigger laws” that will radically alter the legal landscape overnight if the Supreme Court overturns reproductive rights.
May 9, 2022
Michael Tomasky
Mitch McConnell Said Something That Can Help Democrats Win the Midterms
Democrats need to see to it that McConnell’s remark about Congress possibly passing a federal abortion ban is known to every single American voter.
May 6, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Roe
Leak Fallout: Democratic Attorneys General Plan Push to Make Abortion an Issue
Exclusive: The umbrella organization of Democratic attorneys general is commencing a major expenditure to make abortion rights front and center.
May 4, 2022
Timothy Noah
Women Wouldn’t Lose Their Right to Choose If We Elected Presidents by Popular Vote
Four of the five justices who are prepared to overturn Roe were installed by popular vote–losing presidents. Blame the Electoral College.
May 4, 2022
Meredith Shiner
Democrats Can Go Scorched Earth on Abortion Rights, or Go Home
Don’t ask me again for my vote if you’re just going to sleepwalk through the end of reproductive freedom—and democracy.
May 3, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Won’t Stop With Abortion Rights
Tuesday’s leaked draft decision is a fearsome template for overturning a slew of rulings that have shaped American life for decades.
April 15, 2022
Grace Segers
Could Overturning
Roe
Help Democrats in the Midterms?
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is expected this June to end women’s constitutional right to abortion. How voters will react in the November elections is less clear.
March 11, 2022
Matt Ford
Texas’s Abortion Bounty Law Is Inspiring Republican Lawmakers Around the Country
Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.
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