“We Always Bring a Butter Knife to a Gunfight”: How Democrats Failed to Respond to the Supreme Court, and What They Need to Do Now

The outpouring of anger at the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on abortion, guns, climate, and Miranda rights has been stoked by a sense of frustration and helplessness that the Court has become a powerful body devoid of any political accountability. Brian Fallon is aggressively trying to make the judicial system more answerable to majority opinion, and not simply to right-wing ideologues. Fallon was a Democratic insider, holding senior jobs with Senator Chuck Schumer, Attorney General Eric Holder, and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But for the past four years, he has been a ferocious—and prescient—outsider, launching the advocacy group Demand Justice… Read Full Article