Photo courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court, which is the only court explicitly created by the Constitution, is the most powerful court in the United States. The Court has nine justices and its decisions cannot be appealed to any other court. For that reason...
because they assume he will appoint Supreme Court justices who will not recognize or respect a pregnant woman’s right to decide to not give birth. Now, nearly two years after the last elections, the nation will soon have to decide whether to begin the process of aborting the life Trump an...
The Supreme Court is a striking example of a kind of paradox or contradiction we see in many quintessentially non-adversarial institutions. The Court itself, and the role the justices have, is supposed to be strictly non-partisan. When they vote on a decision or opinion, the justices are sup...
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Ultimately, Ku says that Harris is likely to have the biggest impact on reproductive rights if she’s able to put a new judge or two in the Supreme Court. “If she is elected president, I would expect that she would have the opportunity to name one or two Supreme Court justices over ...
Political Control: The Jewish Lobby rules supreme in the realm of political control. Lobbies such as AIPAC, ADL, and the American Jewish Congress (AJC), decide which candidates will be elected. They do this by pouring millions of Jewish dollars into the campaign coffers of Pro Israel ...
The Trump campaign is asking to intervene in the Supreme Court case about Pennsylvania’s ballot receipt deadline. In the lead-up to the election, the justices twice declined Republicans’ request to overrule the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that extended the deadline by three days, but al...
Some years later in 1895, Congress tried to pass an income tax again. But the Supreme Court quickly declared it unconstitutional because the Constitution only allowed direct taxes to be imposed in proportion to state population. Clamor to change this provision eventually won out, and in 1913, Co...
The Trump campaign is asking to intervene in the Supreme Court case about Pennsylvania’s ballot receipt deadline. In the lead-up to the election, the justices twice declined Republicans’ request to overrule the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that extended the deadline by three days, but al...