Marble Falls We’ve always been clear in the work that I’ve shared with so many others that’s the “rule of law” is little more than a thin sheet covering the rule of politics and the wielding of hard-fisted power by those who are winning. There are rationalizations galore and there are innumerable posers, …
Category: Supreme Court
Getting Elected is Now Just Another Investment for the Rich
May 17, 2022 San Francisco While all eyes are on the Supreme Court because of the abortion leak, there’s other damage being done. A 6-3 decision announced this week, in what we might have hoped was a quixotic case involving Ted Cruz, brought more horror to our future, this time to the electoral …
Backseat Driving on Choice: The Fight is Never Over
May 8, 2022 Pearl River With the leak of Justice Alito’s preposterous draft brief overturning Roe v. Wade, the commentariat in the news, social media, city streets, and kitchen tables is in full force. One of the most interesting pieces I have read offered an explanation for this fifty-year rearguard fight to overturn the …