US constitution and civil liberties
‘I’m saving her for Ginsburg’: who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s likely supreme court pick? | Law
When Christine Baglow moved from New Orleans to South Bend, Indiana, two years ago, she found herself at a dinner party with a woman with a formidable resume: former supreme court clerk, professor at Notre Dame Law School, a judge on the US district court of appeals for the seventh circuit. The woman was Amy …
‘I will fight!’: mourners’ vow at supreme court vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg | US news
On a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” It was a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice more renowned for her dissents than her majority opinions, including on the Bush …
Supreme court: Democrats rally in bid to stop Trump filling Ginsburg’s seat | US news
The resistance movement forged in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency now faces perhaps its greatest challenge: keeping open a supreme court vacancy that, if filled, will cement a conservative majority for decades to come. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s most senior and celebrated liberal, set the stage for a furious …
Trump is seriously, frightening, dangerously nuts – and the world is in danger | Robert Reich | Opinion
In retrospect, what’s most disturbing about “Sharpiegate” isn’t Trump’s clumsy effort to doctor a National Weather Service map or even his brazen move to get the same agency to lie on his behalf. It’s how utterly petty his motive was. We’ve had presidents trying to cover up a sexual liaison with an intern and a …
Boston ‘straight pride’ parade dwarfed by large counter-protest | World news
A controversial “straight pride” parade in Boston on Saturday drew more than 1,000 counter-protesters and a few hundred supporters. The rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was “grand marshal” of the event, for which a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America (SHFA) acquired a permit in June. SHFA claimed it wished to draw attention to the …
