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In thirteen years of hostile decisions, the Roberts Supreme Court has done all it can to legalize corruption. With the Bridgegate case, it gets a chance to wreak even more havoc and possibly end the use of the term “corruption” as a useful legal concept.... That the purpose, wasn't it? If this is not judicial activism, what is? This approach to corruption sets the Roberts Supreme Court apart from other Supreme Courts. For over a century, previous Supreme Courts upheld campaign finance laws...

Dark money and conflict of interest on SCOTUS. Sex scandal is just a canard. The real issues go far deeper. Not that the sex scandal is immaterial. In fact, the GOP seems to have decided it doesn't need educated white women after having previously decided that it doesn't need college-educated white males and non-whites. The "Big Tent" has narrowed to not-college white males and Evangelicals.Wall Street On ParadeThe Kavanaugh Nomination’s Money Trail Leads Back to Clarence Thomas Pam...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]So Do We Still Have Unions Now or No? Economics Can (Sort of) Answer That!: I guess it’s not teribly often that behavioral economics can be comforting rather than infuriating, so here you go…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]So Do We Still Have Unions Now or No? Economics Can (Sort of) Answer That!: I guess it’s not teribly often that behavioral economics can be comforting rather than infuriating, so here you go…

The ACLU’s Ría Tabacco Mar reviewed a recent SCOTUS decision in the NYT. South Dakota is being allowed to murder a man rather than commit him to a life time of hell in a natural life sentence . Charles Rhines was convicted of murdering a man while robbing a Dunkin Donut store he used to work at and was fired from a couple of weeks earlier. The jury in deciding Charles Rhines fate in deliberation sent questions to the judge asking; Would Rhines have a...