In decision after decision, it became clear that the Republican justices have gerrymandered the law to generate a bunch of legal rules that fit pretty neatly into the Republican Party’s preferences.
Democracy will only continue to thrive as long as patriotic Americans — including state and local officials of all parties — defend it.
This squabble may seem like the kind of political theatre we’re used to from Trump, but coupled with other actions by his administration, it signals a new level of intentional attack on the rule of law.
Justice Roberts’ determination that he will leave policy involving queer people to the “democratic process” is nothing more than a mirage.
Jenkins’s pardon was another move by the Trump administration to reward political loyalty and give his blessing to elected officials who profit at the expense of public trust.
And as I listened to Kurt Goldschmidt softly recall the dark and distant past the other day by the roadside in White Plains, it was important to realize that he has seen this — and where it can lead — before.
Now that the GOP controls the board, they don’t seem to mind colluding with D.C. Republicans to change election laws.
The conservatives who run the county are redrawing maps not in the spirit of fairness but in the pursuit of control. What is happening in Tarrant County is not just a local issue. It is a warning to the nation.
We are accustomed to Trump flouting and subverting the law, but perhaps less observed are the ways in which his administration seems determined to shut down local sovereignty.
Conservatives don’t support voters having a say on abortion via direct democracy — when Republicans claimed they wanted to send the issue of abortion back to the states, they meant returning power to themselves alone.
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