The 1 Percent Court The 1 Percent Court
A Court for the money power, and our democracy is at stake.
Sep 13, 2012 / Feature / Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger
‘Citizens United’ and the Corporate Court ‘Citizens United’ and the Corporate Court
Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.
Sep 13, 2012 / Feature / Jamie Raskin
The Way Forward The Way Forward
Fight for a Court that speaks of and for the rest of us.
‘Nightmare’ Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Revisited in Court ‘Nightmare’ Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Revisited in Court
Will Pennsylvania be the next major swing state where a restrictive voting law is struck down by the courts?
Sep 13, 2012 / Blog / Ari Berman
Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Supreme Court for the 1 Percent Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Supreme Court for the 1 Percent
Whose interest does the highest court in the country have in mind?
Sep 13, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Will Pennsylvania Execute a Man Who Killed His Abusers? Will Pennsylvania Execute a Man Who Killed His Abusers?
When a Pennsylvania jury sentenced Terrance Williams with the death penalty, they didn't know he had suffered years of violent sexual abuse at the hands of his victim.
Sep 12, 2012 / Blog / Liliana Segura
In Sentencing Criminals, Is Norway Too Soft? Or Are We Too Harsh? In Sentencing Criminals, Is Norway Too Soft? Or Are We Too Harsh?
If Anders Breivik’s twenty-one-year sentence is shocking to Americans, it is largely because we are so uniquely punitive, whether the crime is murder or drug possession.
Aug 28, 2012 / Blog / Liliana Segura
‘Poem about My Rights’: Todd Akin, Meet June Jordan ‘Poem about My Rights’: Todd Akin, Meet June Jordan
Todd Akin, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan all have me thinking of June Jordan’s great “Poem about My Rights.”
Aug 22, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses
The Fourth Amendment was designed to guard against arbitrary governmental authority. That shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whi...
Aug 16, 2012 / Herman Schwartz
Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court
A Pennsylvania Republican judge refuses to block the state's unjust, unnecessary and discriminatory voter ID law.
Aug 15, 2012 / Blog / Ari Berman