Author: Brad Friedman

During every Presidential campaign, I can remember being told, “This election is really about the Supreme Court!” No matter how I felt about the candidates, the argument went, the President nominates Supreme Court justices, and decisions made by the Court affect the nation—for good or ill—for decades. Given the damage the current Court has wrought...

Every 2016 Republican Presidential candidate is a climate-change denier or skeptic. Apparently, for them, it’s easier to ignore evidence of the greatest threat facing humanity than it is to run for the highest office in the land without funding from the ruthless profiteers jeopardizing the future of our planet. The GOP clown car climate claptrap...

In 2006 the U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican majority worked with Democrats to hold dozens of exhaustive hearings on whether to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). “There was a lot of invidious discrimination shown,” recalled then- House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin). Ultimately, the House (with 33 nays) and a unanimous...