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Ernest A. Canning is a retired attorney, author, and Vietnam Veteran (4th Infantry, Central Highlands 1968). He previously served as a Senior Advisor to Veterans For Bernie. Canning has been a member of the California state bar since 1977. In addition to a juris doctor, he has received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science. Follow him on Twitter: @cann4ing

Game On, Wisconsin!

Newly liberal state Supreme Court majority decides to hear challenge to the Badger State's wildly gerrymandered legislative maps in time for 2024 elections, even as unprecedented impeachment threat looms...

UPDATE, 10/12/23: Governor Evers files motion to intervene...

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Emergency WI Supreme Court Petition Seeks to Block Threatened Impeachment Proceedings

Petitioners argue GOP plan to remove recently seated Justice violates state Constitutional limitation to 'crimes' or 'corrupt conduct in office'...

UPDATE 10/3/23: Wisconsin Supremes declined to hear the case...

  • , 9/18/2023 - 
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Judicial Impeachment Threat by WI Republicans Sets Table for Potential Constitutional Crisis

GOPers in gerrymandered state legislative seats float possibility of removing newly elected Justice over state gerrymandering case...

UPDATE 08/23/23: Elections Commission files neutral response; WI Legislature moves to intervene; named GOP Senators oppose, named Dems respond in support; UPDATE 08/26/23 briefing scheduled on GOP recusal motion...

  • , 8/21/2023 - 
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New Lawsuits Filed at WI’s Newly Liberal Supreme Court Seek to End GOP State Gerrymanders

Success would offer a fair shot at flipping state legislative seats, but leave Republicans' gerrymandered U.S. House delegation in place...

UPDATED: Court orders responsive brief; Gerrymandered legislature threatens impeachment...

  • , 8/14/2023 - 
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‘The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn’

Democracy can reverse the damage wrought by corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court ideologues...

  • , 8/07/2023 - 
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Tribe Argues Federal Statute Mandates Cannon Recusal from Trump Stolen Documents Case

Caselaw demands judges avoid mere 'appearance' of impropriety...

  • , 6/19/2023 - 
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Federal Court Blocks New Florida Law Banning Gender-Affirming Care

Judge finds state statue would cause child plaintiffs 'irreparable harm'...

  • , 6/14/2023 - 
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A Simple Executive Order From Biden Could End the GOP-Manufactured Debt Ceiling Crisis

The President should direct the Treasury Department to honor the nation's debt with or without Congressional action. As Laurence Tribe argues, Republicans would have no legal standing to challenge such an Order...

UPDATE 5/22/23: Biden can also agree to injunction compelling Treasury to honor debt...

  • , 5/15/2023 - 
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How Reagan’s Veto Gave Birth to Today’s Mendacious Right-Wing Media Echo Chamber

And how the Fairness Doctrine, extended to cable, could have prevented Jan. 6 and the threat to democracy's survival...

  • , 5/12/2023 - 
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DoJ Argues Stay of Nationwide Abortion Pill Ban Must Extend Through Full Appeals Process

U.S. Solicitor General, FDA, pharmaceutical executives warn of drug approval chaos if any portion of lower court order is allowed to take effect...

UPDATE 4/19/23: Alito extends stay to Friday, 4/21/23; UPDATE 4/21/23 SCOTUS grants full stay...

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Idaho Physicians Charge Ban on Advising Patients to Seek Out-of-State Abortion is Unconstitutional

Federal lawsuit reveals 21st-century 'Fugitive Slave Act' mentality, infringing free speech rights of physicians, patient's right to travel...

UPDATE 2/26/24: 9th Circuit issued preliminary injunction in favor of physician/patient rights...

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Court Rejects Fox Motion to Dismiss, Finds They Lied About Dominion and the 2020 Election

A jury will now decide whether defamation was done with 'actual malice' and, if so, how much the voting machine company is due in damages...

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Orwellian-Titled GOP House Bills Neither ‘Rein-In’ Inflation Nor Create ‘Tax Fairness’

Unless raising cost of goods by 30% is considered 'reining-in' inflation...

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Nationwide Right to Medication Abortions Now at Stake in Three Federal Lawsuits

Explaining the bumpy and uncertain legal path toward protecting -- or ending -- a critical reproductive freedom in all 50 states

UPDATED 4/8/23: Conflicting preliminary injunctions issued by federal courts in WA & TX; 4/11/23 FDA seeks emergency appellate stay of TX case ruling...

  • , 2/20/2023 - 
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‘Clocks Striking Thirteen’: Court Cites Orwell in Response to FL Republicans’ ‘Stop W.O.K.E. Act’

But DeSantis' totalitarian new law has even darker echoes...

UPDATE 3/16/23: 11th Circuit panel unanimously denied FL request to stay the preliminary injunction...

  • , 2/01/2023 - 
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