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Jan 31, 2024
News take: Another federal appeals court takes aim at democracy
The Eighth Circuit refuses to reconsider a decision that could further limit the viability of the Voting Rights Act. A federal appeals...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: PA Supreme Court bench slaps SCOTUS on Dobbs
Poor Samuel Alito must be furious. From Dahlia Lithwick at Slate: On Monday, the court issued a landmark opinion declaring that abortion...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: Diversity important to U.S. defense, White House tells SCOTUS
Yes, but will the "We know better than you" supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court actually listen? From the Courthouse News story: “A...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: Justice Janet Protasiewicz again asked to recuse from maps case
It's already rerun season! Republican Congressional Reps. Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Tom Tiffany, and Scott Fitzgerald...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: New judge for the Seventh Circuit
The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Joshua Kolar, from Indiana. The Chicago Sun-Times has the story. The U.S. Seventh Circuit...
Jan 24, 2024
News take: Are there right-wing revolutionaries on SCOTUS
The U.S. Supreme Court found that the U.S. Border Patrol could remove the razor wire that Texas installed along its border with Mexico....
Jan 18, 2024
Appeals court asked to block death penalty experiment on condemned man
The need to find a new death-penalty method is behind the effort in Alabama. Lawyers for condemned inmate Kenneth Smith are asking the...
Jan 18, 2024
Apple to turn off blood-oxygent tool in watches, for now
But have no fear, you who already have shelled out for the technology. Your blood-oxygen measuring function will continue to work. It's...
Jan 18, 2024
The conservative legal movement is about to score another victory
Because we want dirtier air, dirtier water, and more plastics in our bloodstreams. Of course we do! NBC has more, followed by the...
Jan 18, 2024
Wisconsin's congressional districts challenged in new lawsuit
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Elias Law Group,chaired by Marc Elias, who has led previous voting access lawsuits in Wisconsin and...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Are anti-homeless laws cruel and unusual? SCOTUS will decide
Use your imagination to figure out how homeless people are supposed to deal with laws like the Grants Pass, Oregon, ordinance at issue...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Biden administration fights Texas efforts to block Border Patrol from patrolling
From the story: Along one stretch,armed Texas National Guard members and their vehicles are preventing Border Patrol agents from...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Complaint filed by former courts director against four SCOW justices dismissed
Let's not forget that former courts official Randy Koshnick violated confidentiality provisions of the rules governing such things when...
Jan 14, 2024
News take: Most proposed maps better for Democrats than existing districts
Because the Legislature, U.S. Supreme Court, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court ensured that the existing maps ensured Republican dominance...
Jan 14, 2024
News take: SCOW gets proposed redistricting maps
"Mine is the best!" they all say. More at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Jan 2, 2024
SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts issues another chicken sh*t annual report
Artificial intelligence could be good, the chief opines. It also could be really, really bad. Ground-breaking stuff. And he dances nicely...
Jan 2, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court invited Satan into public schools
Satan Clubs are popping up in public schools, thanks to U.S. Supreme Court decisions aimed at helping conservative Christians. Those...
Jan 2, 2024
Yeah, Trump keeps trying
All the clause says in so many words, then, is that “the party convicted” in the Senate can still face criminal prosecution. But Mr....
Dec 29, 2023
Gotta love the headline
"Wisconsin Prepares to Crush a Slithering Republican Gerrymander," The Nation proclaims. From the story: The rigging of the Wisconsin...
Dec 29, 2023
Trump never stops
He wanted a delay in the E. Jean Carroll suit. but a judge refused yesterday. She's sued him twice. In the first case, a jury found he...
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