The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case out of Wisconsin that could lead to a landmark decision determining whether or not Republicans or Democrats have drawn their state’s electoral districts in a way that gives their candidates an unconstitutional advantage.

The case, Gill v. Whitford, comes to the court after a panel of three federal judges ( Read more... )

Fans of Cheap Drugs and Printer Ink Just Won Big in the Supreme CourtOn Tuesday, a scary case reached a surprisingly positive outcome in the Supreme Court of the United States. Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. was seven-year-long standoff between a small business and an international corporation that stood to upend the world ( Read more... )

After a contentious start to Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination hearings, Senate Democrats are struggling with what the New York Times calls “two options: Get out of the way or get run over ( Read more... )

Chuck Schumer is prepared to push the Senate into a nuclear confrontation over the Supreme Court ( Read more... )

I Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Workout. It Nearly Broke Me. the early hours of Nov. 9, as stock markets began to rally on the news of Donald Trump’s upset win, there was another dramatic spike afoot. Interest in the bone density and cholesterol levels of an 83-year-old woman from Flatbush, New York, was also soaring ( Read more... )

By Robert Kuttner (who also wrote the "The Inevitability of Impeachment," which I posted last week ( Read more... )

This Oklahoma anti-abortion law is completely deranged - and comes with a big billIt’s bad enough when the government requires institutions to post political propaganda. Now it wants them to pay for it, too ( Read more... )

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who came under fire recently for lacerating comments about Donald J. Trump, has dropped another eyebrow-raising remark about a different figure in the news: the N.F.L. football player Colin Kaepernick and his protest against the national anthem ( Read more... )

This Monday, Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum posted an odd piece entitled “The Progressive Case for Hillary Clinton is Pretty Overwhelming.” Presented as a barely-readable laundry list of 84 (!) examples of Clinton’s supposed progressive bona fides, the piece read as if Drum asked “why hilary clinton good ??” on Yahoo! Answers and posted the unedited ( Read more... )