‘Debases the democratic process’: Sotomayor pens scathing dissent as Supreme Court allows racist Alabama map

By Jake Johnson | June 3, 2026
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 03, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The US Supreme Court late Tuesday gave Alabama a green light to use an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map that a lower court said was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.” The unsigned decision, from which the high court’s three liberal justices dissented, enables Alabama’s Republican-dominated…Read More

Democrats Face Mounting Pressure to Oppose Any New Funds for War on Iran

By Jake Johnson | March 6, 2026
Democratic members of Congress are facing renewed pressure to oppose any Trump administration funding requests to help bankroll its illegal, open-ended war on Iran after congressional Republicans — along with a handful of pro-war Democrats — voted this week to defeat efforts to end the assault, which is costing US taxpayers roughly $1 billion per day. In a statement after…Read More