US Supreme Court issues far-reaching attack on the right to strike
By Tom Carter On Thursday, the US Supreme Court handed down a decision that is a massive attack on the right of workers to strike. By an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing an employer to file a lawsuit and recover monetary compensation for “damages” incurred as
US Supreme Court guts wetlands protections
By Daniel de Vries The US Supreme Court on Thursday eliminated federal protections for millions of acres of wetlands across the United States. The ruling in Sackett v. EPA is the latest in a series of anti-democratic and anti-science dictates by the right-wing majority. It upends more than 50 years of environmental policy
US court’s abortion pill ruling: Another milestone in the assault on democratic rights
By Patrick Martin The ruling issued Friday by federal District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, overturning approval of the abortion pill mifepristone by the Food and Drug Administration, is the most flagrant attack on the democratic right to abortion since the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade. The J. Marvin Jones
US Supreme Court poised to overturn Biden administration’s limited student debt relief plan
By Jacob Crosse, Our reporters On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard two different challenges to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, announced last year but blocked almost immediately by Republican judges. Biden’s plan would grant up to $20,000 in loan relief per federal borrower. Student debt relief advocates gather outside the
A Prelude to the Class Approach to Jurisprudence and International Law
By Sanjaya Wilson Jayasekera* (*LL.B, LL.M, Attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. This piece was written in September 2018 and is dedicated to the memory of the workers who died in the worst industrial fire at Ashulia industrial zone, north of Dhaka in 2012.) Law, enforced by the State, is