Enabling The Autocrat
Last week it was reported that Brett Kavanaugh lobbied his fellow Supreme Court justices to actually avoid reaching any decision in...
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Another Dark Day For Democracy
While Attorney General Barr’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee got all the headlines, the real story yesterday was the Trump...
The Presumption Of Irregularity
In so many ways, the Trump administration has been one long assault on the rule of law, now culminating in a...
The Census, COVID-19, And Democracy
After the Supreme Court dismissed the Trump administration’s attempt to add the citizenship question to the decennial census on procedural grounds,...
Astronomy Adventure – Comet NEOWISE C2020/F3
This long-period comet is visible for around 2 hours after sunset in the northwest sky, hanging out below the Big Dipper....
Accelerating Toward Autocracy
Sean Hannity posed a rather surprising question to the President in his interview on July 10. Hannity asked, “[O]ne of the...
The Veneer Of Legitimacy
Ever since the 2016 election, the Supreme Court has faced a crisis of legitimacy. The reasons for this are obvious enough,...