Liberals face Manchin roadblock to replacing Sotomayor on Supreme Court
The unintended consequence of Sotomayor's retirement could be lurching the court further right if a moderate took her place.
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The unintended consequence of Sotomayor's retirement could be lurching the court further right if a moderate took her place.
Guest Commentary: American elections often become exercises in influence as much as contests of ideas or candidates. In that bigger sense, our elections are “rigged” – just not the way
Guest Commentary: American elections often become exercises in influence as much as contests of ideas or candidates. In that bigger sense, our elections are “rigged” – just not the way
Nine hundred, 1,000, 1,500, 1,800, 2,600, 3,500, 4,600, 5,000, 5,900, 6,500. The fatality figures, with which no one can keep up, are augmented every few hours with another twenty here and thirty there as this building or that is brought down in a cataclysmic burst of fire, smoke, and rubble. Three or four hundred people — or more — are being killed every day.
Back in October, UC Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote that "Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now." At the time, I…