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  • Fight to Vote
    Two Swing State Mail Ballot Return Deadlines Stand, But Ballots Could Still Be Rejected
    November 2, 2020
    Conservative justices said it was too late to change the rules, but said they’d support disqualifying 2020 ballots if the cases resurfaced after Election Day.  
  • Moyers on Democracy
    The Changing Courts
    October 26, 2020
    Moyers on Democracy takes a look at a new generation of judges.
  • Letters From an American
    Countdown
    October 24, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    This version of our government is not popular. Republican senators who will vote for Barrett represent 14.3 million fewer Americans than the Democratic senators who oppose her confirmation. Schumer today warned his Republican colleagues: “The majority has trampled over norms, rules, standards, honor, values, any of them that could possibly stand in its monomaniacal pursuit to put someone on the court who will take away the rights of so many Americans.”

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Lisa Graves: Will Amy Coney Barrett Stand by Her Man? He’s Betting a Second Term On It
    October 2, 2020
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM

    On this week's MOYERS ON DEMOCRACY, Bill Moyers speaks to Lisa Graves about what's at stake in rushing Amy Coney Barrett's nomination through the Senate. Barrett is a young judge who has been nominated with the understanding that Republicans are looking for her to cast a vote for Trump from the bench.

  • Letters From an American
    Trump: "We're Going to Have to See What Happens"
    September 24, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    An Atlantic article rings the fire bell.
  • Letters From an American
    Mitch McConnell and the Hot Seat
    September 21, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Both of the last two Republican presidents—Bush and Trump-- have lost the popular vote, and yet each nominated two Supreme Court justices, who have been confirmed by the votes of senators who represent a minority of the American people. The confirmation of a fifth justice in this way will create a solid majority on the court, which can then unwind the legal framework that a majority of Americans still supports.

  • Letters From an American
    Pulling Out the Old Playbook
    August 14, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Today was another one for the history books.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Election-Go-Round: Democracy in Peril
    August 7, 2020
    | James D. Zirin

    Trump has no legal right to delay the federal elections without the consent of Congress, but his lack of legal authority has rarely stopped him. We know he will do almost anything to work the system and stay in power, and he thinks he can rely on the conservative majority in the Supreme Court to back him up.

  • For the Record
    We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It’s Happening Before Our Very Eyes
    June 5, 2020
    | Bill Moyers

    Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    What's Mine Is Mine and What's Yours Is Mine
    April 29, 2020
    | James D. Zirin
    Trump completely misunderstands his authority as president - A lawyer’s perspective


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