Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Morgan Marietta studies the psychology of politics and writes about the political consequences of belief. He is the author of four books, The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric: Absolutist Appeals and Political Influence, A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology, A Citizen’s Guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court, and most recently One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy. He and Bert Rockman are the co-editors of the Citizen Guides to Politics & Public Affairs from Routledge Press, and with David Klein he is co-editor of the annual SCOTUS series at Palgrave Macmillan on the major decisions of the Supreme Court. He and David Barker write the Inconvenient Facts blog at Psychology Today.
Nov 07, 2023 08:58 am UTC| Law
Should it be legal to take away the guns of people who are under a domestic violence protective order, which aims to shield victims from their abusers? Thats the question posed in one of the biggest cases of the current...
Sep 28, 2023 02:54 am UTC| Law
The first Monday in October, the traditional date for the beginning of the U.S. Supreme Courts term, is almost here: On Oct. 2, 2023, the court will meet after the summer recess, with the biggest case of the term focused...
Supreme Court appears to suggest right to guns at home extends to carrying them in public too
Nov 06, 2021 07:57 am UTC| Law
Faced with the question does the constitutional right to possess a gun extend outside the home? the majority of the Supreme Court appears to be heading toward the answer yes. On Nov. 3, 2012, justices heard oral...
Jun 20, 2021 12:08 pm UTC| Law Politics
It wasnt a dramatic expansion of religious rights not yet. But the Supreme Courts ruling in favor of a Catholic adoption agency that had been excluded from Philadelphias foster programs for refusing to work with same-sex...
Supreme Court to decide the future of the Electoral College
Jun 21, 2020 11:26 am UTC| Politics
Many Americans are surprised to learn that in U.S. presidential elections, the members of the Electoral College do not necessarily have to pick the candidate the voters in their state favored. Or do they? This month...
Jun 21, 2020 03:37 am UTC| Law
When it came down to it, the fate of 700,000 immigrants brought to U.S. as children hung on a simple question: Does the White House have to tell the whole truth in justifying its move to deport them? On June 8, the...
Jan 18, 2020 11:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The fate of 700,000 people facing deportation may hang on a new question facing the U.S. Supreme Court: Is the White House legally obligated to tell the whole truth when justifying its actions? In November, justices...
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