Supreme Court's liberal justices warn of a "law-free zone" (tags)
"The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution," she wrote. "Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Justice Sotomayor
The Political System in Historical Crisis (tags)
In his inaugural speech in 2017, Donald Trump emphasized that his presidency would return political power to the people. He sees himself as the only legitimate representative of the interests of the supposedly true people.
Say No To Waterboarder Gina Haspel And Trump (tags)
Reasons to ask senators to vote against waterboarding torturer Gina Haspel
Executioner Merrick Garland, Denier Of Prisoner Rights (tags)
Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is more of the same, indicating an executioner justice who would continue policies of endless war.
Merrick Garland Opposed Guantanamo Prisoner Rights, Expanded Citizens United Theft (tags)
Garland's decisions on Guantanamo, Citizens United, defendants etc. have helped only the military and the rich. He may have coveredup the CIA role in the bombing of the OKC
GOP Vote Fraud In OH, KY, VA, FL, AZ, CO, NV, MN, NH And Elsewhere (tags)
In the November 2015 elections, Ohio Republican vote fraud robbed Ohioans of their ratification of pot decriminalization In Kentucky a fraudulently elected Republican was installed in the governor's chair
GOP Voter Fraud In Jeb Bush's FL, OH, NH, NC, TX, AZ, VA, NC, CA, CO, OR, MN Etc (tags)
There are hundreds of categories of vote fraud used by the plutocratic party in the last 100 years.
Supreme Court Rules for Big Money (tags)
money power
NSA
Appeals Court Stays Stop and Frisk Ruling (tags)
police state
Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act (tags)
police state
Supreme Court Authorizes Lawless Wiretapping (tags)
tyranny
Obama
Proposition 8, DoMA and the Supreme Court (tags)
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage passed by California voters in November 2008, and also the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) that defines marriage under federal law as only between one man and one woman. But the current Right-wing Court is likely to uphold Prop. 8 as constitutional and leave the battle for marriage equality to state-by-state political and social campaigns.
Supreme Court Spurns Justice (tags)
injustice
Big Win for Predatory Healthcare Giants (tags)
class war
The Supremes and Health Care: Second "Switch in Time" (tags)
In April 1937 Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts switched sides, stopped voting that minimum-wage laws and the New Deal programs were unconstitutional and got on board with the Roosevelt administration's program to save the court from progressive political attacks. Likewise, current Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act largely to preserve the court's reputation and neutralize Democrats' attempts to make the court's Republican majority and partisan 5-4 decisions like Citizens United an issue in the 2012 campaign.
Egypt's Spirit Lands in Wisconsin (tags)
protest
BUSH JR~ KARL ROVE PONZI TARP SCHEME WAS PLANNED WELL AHEAD PRESIDENT OBAMA BEING ELECTED (tags)
THE BUSH JR~ KARL ROVE TARP PONZI BAILOUT OF $700 BILLION BEGAN LONG PRIOR any of our ripped~off little American taxpayers ever heard of TARP... ~ TARP = TAKE ALL RESOURCES POLITELY ~
WITH SMART & BRAVE U.S.SENATORS LIKE LINSEY GRAHAM OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AMERICA JUSTICE WINS (tags)
~ LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS IS QUITE TAKEN BY SOUTH CAROLINA U.S. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM.WE ALSO HOPE OTHER AMERICANS WANTING HONEST GOVERNMENT TO RETURN TO OUR U.S.CONGRESS CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN THOSE WHO VOTE THEIR MIND & HEART ~
Court destroying our rights and welfare
Next Supreme Court Justice to Solidify Right Wing, Neoliberal Control (tags)
Obama likely to shift the court more to the right
America's Supremes: Court Over Constitution (tags)
America governs lawlessly
Obama Sworn In As The 44th U.S. President (tags)
More than 2 million people attend inaugural event in Washington D.C.
Military trials for detainees rejected (tags)
On the same day the Supreme Court struck down military tribunals for detainees being held in Cuba, Republicans in Congress began working to give the president the power to use them.