SF Politics/Jay Barmann Published Aug 24, 2026 · SFist.com California and a group of other states have lost one skirmish with the Trump administration on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket regarding ballots by mail, with the court essentially saying the states can’t sue because they haven’t been harmed yet. President… Continue reading
Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on September 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) “At a time when the Roberts Court has too often made it harder for Americans to exercise their rights, today’s decision is an… Continue reading
DAYEN ON TAP June 29, 2026 (Prospect.org) If you believe that presidents get to fire executive branch appointees, there is no logical way for that to only be inapplicable for the Federal Reserve.Much of what you need to know about who rules America can be found in two Supreme Court… Continue reading
Congress passed the laws. Previous presidents signed them. The Supreme Court has now declared they can be ignored whenever this particular president chooses (but not Biden)… Thom Hartmann and Raw America Jun 26, 2026 (rawamerica.com) Something happened inside the Supreme Court chamber on Thursday that almost never happens: Justice Sonia Sotomayor was… Continue reading
By Sophia Bollag, Staff Writer May 24, 2026 (SFChronicle.com) Gift Article Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Santa Clara, shown discussing the Epstein files outside the U.S. Capitol last November, called for Supreme Court reforms Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”Heather Diehl/Tribune News Service In the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest… Continue reading
Image by Matt Chase Congress must return the Court to its proper place in the U.S. constitutional system. Published April 28, 2026 (brennancenter.org) The Courts American public institutions urgently need repair and renewal. The 2024 election was the first time since the 1800s that the incumbent party lost the White House… Continue reading
The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights’ support for the 2018-19 Great March of Return protests in Gaza—shown here on April 27, 2018—was the subject of a thrice-rejected lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund. (Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images) This marks the third straight time a federal court has… Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito poses for a photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2022. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) A new report warns that huge tax gifts for corporations and “a $340 billion hole in the federal budget” are among the potential… Continue reading
Congresswoman’s comments come days after nation’s highest court released batch of incendiary and far-reaching rulings Richard Luscombe 2 Jul 2023 12.49 EDT (theguardian.com) The conservative supreme court is “creeping dangerously towards authoritarianism”, the Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday, raising again the unlikely scenario of impeaching justices for recent actions. Her… Continue reading
JOE RAVI | CREATIVE COMMONS With a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, campus professors discuss potential threats to voting rights in the United States. MADISON CREEKBAUM | STAFF JUNE 16, 2023 (DailyCal.org) After several attacks on the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court reaffirmed last week the Act will… Continue reading
