The Republican Party is running a slate of “Big Lie” proponents for every available electable position in every state of the Union. The Colorado GOP has a real whose who of MAGA-supporters including suspected election fraud criminal Tina Peters. Peters is the Mesa County Clerk who broke security protocols and likely the law, by allowing Dominion voting machines under her purview to be tampered with. In between times being arrested, Peters is running for the secretary of state job in the hopes of...
Trade industry groups representing tech giants, such as Google and Facebook, have filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court to block HB 20. That's the controversial law Texan law that bars social media websites from removing or restricting content based on "the viewpoint of the user or another person." It also allows users to sue large platforms with more than than 50 million active monthly users if they believe they were banned for their political views. As The Washington Post...
Senate Democrats voted to make abortion a federally protected “right,” but the final vote sent them packing. The bill would have overridden almost every state-level restriction. It would a
Major Democratic donors like Mark Zuckerberg have switched gears from privatizing to federalizing American elections. That's dangerous.
At 16 years old, Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He was charged as an adult with a violent felony. Prosecutors sought, and were granted, bail that Browder's family was unable to afford. He was offered a plea deal, but Kalief maintained his innocence and refused to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit. The state of New York worked for three years to build a case against him and failed. After three years, prosecutors finally admitted they had no case against the...
Medical professionals face tough quandaries when treating patients who have a miscarriage, a scenario that could soon play out around the country if abortion restrictions tighten.
The Texas Review of Law & Politics has published my new article, The "Essential" Second Amendment. Here is the abstract:
The law bans companies like Facebook and Twitter from blocking content based on political viewpoints. The companies, however, have long pushed back against claims of censorship.
After an unlikely rise to national prominence, whistleblower Frances Haugen has turned her energy to legislative advocacy, some of it involving California law.
Their preferred vehicle to respond to the Supreme Court breach is all but sure to fail. Whether more abortion debate will follow remains unclear.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer angrily denounced the Supreme Court's leaked draft Roe v. Wade decision as an "abomination."
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer angrily denounced the Supreme Court's leaked draft Roe v. Wade decision as an "abomination."