Author: Common Dreams

The June 24th Supreme Court ruling nullifying Roe v. Wade should not be viewed as an isolated event in America’s cultural wars but instead as the result of a fifty-year conservative strategy to supplant US democracy with plutocracy. Although culture wars are an important aspect of this strategy, conservative SCOTUS cultural rulings are not the final objective but merely a stepping-stone to the ultimate goal: weakening the Federal system to the point where the U.S. becomes, in effect, a confederacy. Conservatives are refighting the 1861 Civil War. And they are winning. Although the American Civil War was a war fought over...

A new analysis released on July 13 argue that the right-wing majority now controlling the U.S. Supreme Court has dragged the institution to its lowest point in history by overtly, and repeatedly attacking the bedrock foundation upon which the nation was built: representative democracy itself. In the report — titled The Supreme Court’s Role in the Degradation of Democracy — researchers with the Campaign Legal Center detail how the Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has issued rulings in a “consistently anti-democratic” pattern and by doing so reversed “decades of work by prior Courts that sought to perfect...

A petition calling on the Democratic-controlled House to launch impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas surpassed one million signatures, an indication of growing public outrage over the right-wing judge’s proximity to efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the ongoing attack on constitutional freedoms. The petition, posted to the website of progressive advocacy group MoveOn, currently has more than 989,000 signatures after a surge following the Supreme Court majority’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the constitutional right to abortion. In his concurring opinion in Dobbs, Thomas plainly stated his...

Panicked children and adults ran for their lives Monday as at least six people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a mass shooting that took place during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, who described the scene of the shooting as a “bloodbath,” said she saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade viewing stand. More than 30 people who were wounded, mostly by gunshots but some from the ensuing chaos at the parade, were taken to...