Supreme Court

Democrats Exposed by The End of Roe v. Wade

June 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Reproductive Sovereignty, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 29, 2022 The full extent of Democratic Party treachery was exposed when the Roe v. Wade decision was overturned. Only right wing Americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral process. In May 2022, a memo was leaked to the media which indicated that the Supreme Court[…]

Lizelle Herrera & Texas Repression – Arrest Exposes Anti-Abortion Laws

April 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Reproductive Sovereignty, Women

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 12, 2022 There was joy and a sigh of relief when Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally confirmed as the first Black woman justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, based on a 53-47 Senate vote April 7. Then another legal development of a totally different kind occurred in Starr County, Texas,[…]

Kavanaugh’s Confirmation in Context

October 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Political Corruption, The War at Home, Women

Photo: Sept. 29 March to End Rape in Philadelphia. ~Michael Canelori / NurPhoto By Ann Montague, Published on Socialist Action, October 7, 2018 Outrage continues to spread throughout the United States over President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, currently on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has been roundly criticized for[…]

Kavanaugh nomination exposes ruling-class crisis

October 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Political Corruption, Women

by Sue Davis, Originally published on Workers World, October 2, 2018 The Sept. 27 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the current nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court could not have been more polarized. Calm, deliberate, earnest, cooperative, though admittedly terrified, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified in the morning. In contrast, during the afternoon, there was high drama as Judge Brett[…]

Kavanaugh Scorns International Law and Loves Executive Power

September 12, 2018 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, International Law

Editor’s Note: Brett Kavanaugh may or may not land in the Supreme Court. What is interesting about this article is it clearly articulates a mindset that permeates the U.S. political establishment as a whole and much of the judiciary as well. John Bolton’s recent outburst of defiance towards the International Criminal Court is an example of this mentality. by Marjorie[…]

The Supreme Court’s Muslim Ban Ruling Signals the End of Our Modern Reconstruction

June 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Immigration, Racism

And we’re getting the new Gilded Age simultaneously. By Charles P. Pierce, from Pan African News Wire, June 26, 2018 The latest report from Happy Gumdrop Land comes from Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy, who does two shows a night at the Happy Gumdrop Land opera house ever since his smash hit, Citizens United, in which his solo[…]

US Supreme Court About to Pass a 21st Century Dred Scott Decision

January 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Racism, The War at Home

by Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report, Jan 18, 2018 Back in 1857 the US Supreme Court, in response to the lawsuit of one Dred Scott, a slave suing for his freedom, ruled that nobody of African descent had any legal right under the US Constitution that any white man was bound to respect. It was a bright line that[…]