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Chief justice no longer sits in supreme court’s ideological center and has lost the power to cast the deciding vote in any ruling

By updating and expanding federal civil rights law, the Equality Act, which passed the House in February, may force churches to change how they do their work.

The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe

Print The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe vs. Wade is in jeopardy or that religious freedom and pandemic restrictions were clashing. The big news was that Clarence Thomas was talking. That’s right. The Supreme Court justice who once went 10 full years without asking a single question at oral arguments — the justice who sits so quietly staring blankly at the ceiling that he mad...

Column: What does it mean that famously silent Justice Clarence Thomas is suddenly garrulous? Nicholas Goldberg © Provided by The LA Times Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2020. (John Amis / Associated Press) The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe vs. Wade is in jeopardy or that religious freedom and pandemic restrictions were clashing. The big news was tha...

Democrats can end the insane tradition of holding the global economy hostage now and forever. Drew Angerer/Getty Images There are many things that should be left in the Pandemic Before Times: meetings that could have been emails, long and pointless commutes, and working without paid sick leave. Also, consider the debt ceiling. Two years ago, Congress and President Donald Trump agreed to suspend the need to raise the debt ceiling until after the 2020 elections. Having been kicked down the road, ...

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Democrats introducing a bill to pack the Supreme Court. Progressives Thursday took one more step forward in their radical march to destroy another American institution. They already demand an end to the Electoral College, they want to do away with the filibuster, and they want to add more states to disrupt the workings of the Senate.  Now they have made the Supreme Court their next target.  Speaking on Thursday from the Supreme Court steps, Democratic political lea...

Assessing Trumps potential legal fallout for Capitol riot and Georgia election phone call Mark Gollom © Evan Vucci/The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump fires up his supporters at a rally near the White House on Jan. 6 while lawmakers at the Capitol were in the process of certifying the results of the presidential election he lost. Before former U.S. president Donald Trump lost the election last November, he was already facing a criminal investigation related to hi...

Here’s the official synopsis:  Amend: The Fight for America is a six-part docuseries that explores the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution – which, in 1868, promised liberty and equal protection for all persons – as America’s most enduring hallmark of democracy. Amend deploys a groundbreaking narrative format featuring a number of luminaries ( Mahershala Ali, Diane Lane, Samuel L. Jackson, Pedro Pascal, Yara Shahidi, and more) breathing life into speeches and writings by the...

In the first weeks of 2021, 37 state legislatures filed more than 500 bills to expand voting access, far exceeding the 188 expansive bills introduced at the start of the 2020 legislative session. But more than 165 bills across 33 states would tighten voting rules. These include adding identification requirements to mail-in voting in Georgia and allowing state lawmakers to overturn the popular vote in Arizona. Why We Wrote This The right to vote is central to democracy, though not easy to implem...