WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River This is one of those crimes without criminals. US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision gutting the fifty-year precedent Roe v. Wade allowing women’s right to choose to have an abortion was leaked. Oh my, oh my! In a tither, the Chief Justice, the media, a legion of pundits expresses outrage and …
New Orleans Among the many confounding disconnects is the pretense of some justices, certainly Brett Kavanagh is among them, that their decision on Roe v. Wade would settle matters and, unbelievably, restore “credibility” in the Supreme Court. This has to be among the most specious claims ever made in a Court concurring opinion. …
New Orleans I’ll have to admit that even in the worst of situations, I’m always looking for the handles. The small openings where work and action can make a difference; the windows that are still open, even as others are locked shut. All of that has me looking more closely at Justice Kavanagh …