The same explosive question rumbled through this week’s Supreme Court ruling on the 2020 census and the two nights of Democratic presidential debates: How will America respond to the propulsive demographic, social, and economic changes remaking the nation? The juxtaposition of these two events, purely coincidental, underscored how much of […] Read more »
Supreme Court says gerrymandering fix up to voters, not judges
The Supreme Court is empty days before the justices vote to on the U.S. gerrymandering case. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is not unconstitutional. The majority ruled that gerrymandering is outside […] Read more »
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Partisan Gerrymandering
In a landmark 5-4 decision issued by Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority, the Supreme Court has rejected challenges to a GOP-drawn map in North Carolina and a Democratic-drawn map in Maryland. In doing so, the Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is non-justiciable: in other words, maps […] Read more »
In Supreme Court census case, chief justice’s priorities are colliding
Two of Chief Justice John Roberts’ top priorities are on a collision course as the Supreme Court nears a pivotal decision this week on the Trump administration’s design for the 2020 census. Roberts has repeatedly declared that he wants the public to see the court as a nonpartisan institution, even […] Read more »
Americans weren’t always bitterly divided on abortion. This is how we got that way.
Everyone who cares about abortion has reason to be genuinely alarmed right now. … While public opinion on abortion has mostly stayed steady, the major parties have been steadily and deliberately choosing to move away from each other on the issue for decades. The confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh as […] Read more »
New abortion laws are too extreme for most Americans, poll shows
Recent efforts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to enact some of the most restrictive abortion laws in decades go against the views of most Americans, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist, which could spark a backlash against the party in the 2020 elections. CONT. Gretchen […] Read more »