As Election Day approaches, voters need to keep in mind one of the most important powers given to a president: the ability to nominate Supreme Court Justices. Judicial nominations take even more precedence in this election due to the …
This week People For the American Way released a new report on the importance of the Supreme Court in the 2012 presidential election. With less than a week until Election Day, the report highlights what is at stake for …
Legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky writes in the LA Times that the Supreme Court is a critical issue in the presidential campaign, although candidates don’t always talk as prominently about it as they do other subjects. But if you care …
What do you do to win over abortion rights supporters if you’ve spent your whole presidential campaign telling right-wing activists you’re anti-choice? For Mitt Romney, the answer is simple: lie! First there was the TV ad assuring women …
There is a particularly interesting reader comment to Jonathan Bernstein’s column on why the Supreme Court is the most important issue in the presidential election (which we blogged about here). One very conservative commenter posted on why he wanted Mitt Romney to …
Add the Washington Post’s Jonathan Bernstein to the large list of pundits recognizing the critical importance of the Supreme Court as an election issue. He writes: But as important as [the survival of the Affordable Care Act] is, I …
With as many as three Supreme Court Justices possibly stepping down in the next four years, either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will have a profound and lasting influence on the nation’s highest court. And since federal judges have …
Rolling Stone published an interview with President Obama yesterday in which he discusses what would happen to the Supreme Court – and to the American people – if Mitt Romney wins the election and gets to fill the next …
This year’s election has been heavily dominated by the economy, jobs, and the national debt with less attention given to the judiciary and the consequences of presidential nominations to the Supreme Court. With several of the current justices well …
Richard Mourdock’s statement yesterday about rape and God’s will, like so many other election issues, implicates the Supreme Court. Mourdock and his allies are strongly anti-choice. The far right has been committed for a generation to populating our …
As Election Day approaches, voters need to keep in mind one of the most important powers given to a president: the ability to nominate Supreme Court Justices. Judicial nominations take even more precedence in this election due to the …
This week People For the American Way released a new report on the importance of the Supreme Court in the 2012 presidential election. With less than a week until Election Day, the report highlights what is at stake for …
Legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky writes in the LA Times that the Supreme Court is a critical issue in the presidential campaign, although candidates don’t always talk as prominently about it as they do other subjects. But if you care …