This is the grave of Felix Frankfurter. Born in Vienna in 1882 to a prominent Jewish family, Frankfurter came to the U.S. in 1894 with his family. They settled on the Lower East Side and he lived a pretty typical Jewish immigrant life. He split...
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is back in session, which means we get to be super excited at another round of six rich reactionaries deciding which parts of the nation they want.
Millhiser notes the way to keep attention on the bullshit Supreme Court, no matter what happens going forward, is to remain angry about it forever. After all, a big part.
There's an interesting article on the math of extreme gerrymandering — and of detecting it — at a magazine, Qanta, that I've never head of before. The quotation that I've seen circulating concerns, first, how simulations can now produce compact districts that are still heavily...
This is the grave of Benjamin Cardozo. Born in 1870 in New York, Cardozo grew up in an elite Jewish family. In fact, his cousin was Emma Lazarus, who wrote.
This is one of these fascinating Court cases that don't fall on typical partisan lines but which, to me at least, seems to have a pretty fantastic upshot. The Supreme.
There's nothing in this in depth ProPublica report on Clarence Thomas' unbelievable levels of corruption that really surprise. That's because there is nothing about Thomas that would surprise us. I still await him writing the opinion overturning Loving v. Virginia. Moreover, I think he'd be...
This is the grave of Stanley Matthews. Born in 1824 in Cincinnati, Matthews' family was evidently pretty well off in Porkopolis. He was able to attend Kenyon College, graduating in.
I recently read Charles Blow's new book, where he urges Black northerners to move back South to concentrate their political power. It's a super book and LGM readers should check.
This is the grave of Roger Taney. Born in 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, Taney grew up in the Catholic elite of Maryland. That was a lot less powerful than it had been early in Maryland's founding as Protestants eventually took power from the papists...
This is the grave of Thomas Todd. Born in King and Queen County, Virginia in 1765, Todd grew up in the Virginia elite but a downwardly mobile part of it..
It turns out that rule by six extremist Opus Dei judges is not exactly making the American public feel warm and cozy about the Supreme Court. Perhaps the biggest obstacle.