In Major Ruling, SCOTUS Decides That States Can Mandate Sales Tax From Online Retailers
In a 5-4 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned a 1992 decision that prevented states from requiring sales taxes from online retailers. The majority—which included Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel A. Alito…
SCOTUS Lifts Hold On Trump’s Irrational Travel Ban
The Supreme Court of the United States has lifted a hold on Trump’s controversial, bigoted, and irrational travel ban. Bogged down in the lower courts for months, the executive order sought to prevent individuals from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,…
Voting Rights Victory! SCOTUS Strikes Discriminatory North Carolina Law Dead
Interestingly enough, it appears as if the best news these days is coming from an unlikely source: the Supreme Court of the United States. Just two weeks ago, the highest court in the land turned down an appeal challenging a…
Unfit to Sit: Gorsuch’s Sexism is Toxic and Doesn’t Belong on the Supreme Court
While recent reports of Neil Gorsuch’s plagiarism discredit the notion that he somehow constitutes a formidable legal scholar, there is another more sinister component to the far-right SCOTUS nominee’s reactionary persona. Former students of Gorsuch’s at the University of Colorado…