Author: KJ McElrath

By all reports, Sri Srinivasan – all of 48 years young – is a “wunderkind,” a brilliant legal mind one sees perhaps two or three times in a generation. Currently a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Washington D.C. District Court of Appeals, Srinivasan is at the top of President Obama’s “short list” of potential replacements for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The burning question for Progressives hoping for a shift in the balance of the Supreme Court is: who is Sri Srinivasan? Born in the Punjab State capitol of Chandigarh, Srinivasan immigrated from India with his family when he...

Like most workers in America, you’ve probably been more productive and spent more hours on the job than ever before while also seeing your paycheck stagnate, or even diminish. Well, as we’re all finding out, the rules are different for the one percent. Case in point: Bank of America CEO Brian T. Moynihan, who got a whopping 23 percent raise for his “work” in 2015 – while the company’s stock price dropped. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon got an even bigger raise of 35 percent, even though that company’s earnings were down at the end of last year as well....

Not surprisingly, GOP members of Congress are already lined up to block any Supreme Court nominee President Obama might put forward in the wake of Judge Antonin Scalia’s passing. Since a series of conservative Administrations have stacked the U.S. Supreme Court with right-wing corporatist hacks, we’ve seen one disastrous decision after another come out of that august body – including Citizens United v. FEC and Exxon Shipping v. Baker (shielding the oil company from punitive damages). Of course, need we even mention Bush v. Gore?  Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and Texas Senator Ted Cruz have publicly declared that they...