Supreme Court

The Preamble to the United States Constitution says the following, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…

The U.S. Supreme Court often serves as “the court of last resort,” but it also has a role as the protector of first principles, reminding the other branches of government and the citizens of the fundamental beliefs upon which the country was founded. …

Terry H. Schwadron June 2, 2023 News coverage and legal analysis following last week’s Supreme Court decision blocking enforcement of federal wetlands laws have made clear that the nation’s commitment to clean water is in trouble. But it also made clear that the ever-more right-wing court majority is headed towards…

It’s not the only thing; Time to go on the Offensive by Elaine Gilmartin For those who have not yet connected the dots, rolling back the right to abortion has nothing to do with the preservation of life. It’s an autocratic power grab intended to marginalize women from political and…

The 7–2 Supreme Court ruling on May 21, 2023 against the licensing of one of Andy Warhol’s prints that built on Lynn Goldsmith’s copyrighted photography is going to be pointed to by fearmongerers to justify all sorts of broad and uninformed attacks. It was a very narrow and specific application…

There is a phrase attributed to Mao Zedong that goes, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” This can be paired perfectly with the von Clauswitz statement of, “War is not an independent phenomenon, but a continuation of politics by other means.” So why do I bring these two statements up? I was thinking about the US Supreme Court and their rulings of the past few years and was thinking about where does their power, their authority lie?

The US Supreme Court is working hard to turn all Americans against it by creating new rights for rich people and corporations. For example, the Supremes found that property owners have a “right to water pollution” in Sackett v. EPA on 26 May 2023. This came a year after, the…

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decisive 7–2 ruling, sided with acclaimed photographer Lynn Goldsmith in her long-running copyright dispute against the Andy Warhol Foundation. The controversy pivoted on a 1981 portrait of pop icon Prince, originally captured by Goldsmith for Newsweek, although it never made it to…

Fighting about Roe v. Wade is meaningless if we’re all dead… — After thirty-five years of litigating monster lawsuits and closing bizarre international money deals, I feel qualified to judge the Supremes and I find this Court appalling. I never appeared before that formerly esteemed body, but one of my cases did back in the late ‘90’s. …