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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 and Bluesky.
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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

Million Dollar Sanctions Ruling Underscores Trump’s Seemingly Never-Ending Litigation Grift

Nothing less than a criminal prosecution will end it. (Maybe.)

Trump’s Violent Insurrection: From ‘Plausible’ Incitement to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

House J6 Committee's report details how the then-President's anti-Pence tweet was directed at, and likely to produce, 'imminent lawless action'...

To Save American Democracy

A long time Bernie Sanders supporter on why we must vote 'blue' in '22...

UPDATE: Independent progressive Ralph Nader joins call to vote 'blue' in '22...

50 State Chief Justices Eviscerate Democracy-Ending ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory

Rare brief submitted to SCOTUS by top state judges underscores how American democracy is, itself, on the ballot this November...

UPDATE 10/14/22: 2nd GOP petition seeks to overturn OH Supreme Court redistricting ruling based in 'Independent State Legislature' Theory...

As COVID Continues, Reagan’s Gift to Big Pharma is Still Endangering Global Health

Dismantling pharmaceutical monopolies begins with repealing his 1987 Executive Order giveaway...

CA’s New Insulin Plan a Shot in the Arm Toward Socialized Medications, Ending Patent Abuse

Newsom makes good on vow to manufacture generic drugs, highlighting Big Pharma's long manipulation of Intellectual Property laws for profit...

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Rejects Yet Another GOP Challenge to Absentee Voting

Ruling is good news for democracy and, perhaps, state Democrats...

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