Stephen Carter

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Stephen Carter

Commentators keep pointing to the Trump administration's Supreme Court "wins" over the past several days in cases involving the whirlwind of his executive orders, but in legal terms there's a lot less to the victories than meets the eye. Friday's decision allowing the Department of Education to end $65 million in grants was really about the venue where the lawsuits should be brought.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Stephen Carter

What’s going on in there? (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Friday’s decision allowing the Department of Education to end $65 million in grants was really about the venue where the lawsuits should be brought. Tuesday’s ruling that the government can proceed with forced deportations of alleged gang members arrived with safeguards that the administration sought to deny. The real news shouldn’t be which party prevailed but what the justices actually said.

2 weeks ago | japantimes.co.jp | Stephen Carter

The Earth didn’t exactly shake when the New York Yankees announced recently that they would allow their players to wear beards. However, the change in the half-century-old policy could stand as a symbol of our cultural epoch. That’s because, for the first time in over a century, beards are coming to be seen as markers of the ruling class. No, seriously. And not just because when JD Vance took the oath, he became the first bearded vice president since 1909.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Stephen Carter

For the Supreme Court to decree that state legislatures never consider race when drawing district lines, as is being disputed in Louisiana, would be a tragic mistake. It has been quite the week for the whirling vortex of racial turnabout. Quailing at the example the Trump administration made of Columbia University, several schools, including most recently the University of Michigan, are publicly and swiftly abandoning their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

3 weeks ago | phillytrib.com | Stephen Carter

It’s a shame that Chief Justice John Roberts had to take the extraordinary step of chiding President Donald Trump and his cheerleaders for their demands that federal judges who stand in the way of the administration’s decrees be impeached. No, that sort of behavior isn’t new; the insistence by politicians that judges stand aside and let them have their way has been a depressing feature of our political landscape since the beginning.