SCOTUS defers gerrymandering ruling
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court declined on Monday to address the central questions in two closely watched challenges to partisan gerrymandering, putting off for another time a…
Frustrated Supreme Court Looks For A Solution To Partisan Gerrymandering
From today’s NPR News: The Supreme Court justices seemed to grasp the problem of gerrymandering in oral arguments on Wednesday and that it will only get worse, as computer-assisted redistricting…
56 years later, JFK’s call for a consumer bill of rights is forgotten under Trump
From the Los Angeles Times: On this day in 1962, President Kennedy laid out in a speech to Congress the framework for a consumer bill of rights and the crucial…
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Will Trump’s Tariffs Help or Hurt American Workers? Contrasting Views
From the New York Times: The Case for Trump’s Tariffs and ‘America First’ Economics By DANIEL McCARTHY In his campaign, Donald Trump stressed “America First” economic nationalism. But in his…
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Some Dems ready to loosen tough bank regulations passed after financial crisis
From today’s LA Times: Before the 2008 financial crisis, BAC Community Bank in Stockton made about 100 mortgage loans a year. Now, after new regulations mandated in the Dodd-Frank Wall…
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A Flurry of Courts Have Ruled on Election Maps. Here’s What They’ve Said
From today’s New York Times: Judges in a number of states have recently thrown out election maps, saying that they have been gerrymandered to the point of being unconstitutional, effectively…
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When Wall Street Writes Its Own Rules, It’s An Age of Unprecedented Corruption
From today’s New York Times: On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, then the United States…
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#VotingRights Update: Group Targets GOP States to Attack Gerrymandering
From today’s New York Times: A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama intends to pour millions of dollars into an eclectic array of elections in a dozen states,…
Justice Department Dismisses Corruption Case Against Menendez
From today’s New York Times: The Department of Justice on Wednesday dismissed all the remaining charges against Senator Robert Menendez, a decision that underscores how a 2016 Supreme Court ruling…
In Montana, Governor Bullock Signs Order to Enforce Net Neutrality
From the New York Times: Most efforts underway to restore so-called net neutralityface big obstacles and would take many months, if not years, to succeed. But in Montana, the governor…