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July 8, 2024
Liza Featherstone
Send Wealthy Tree Killers to Jail
Rich homeowners are cutting or poisoning trees for a better view and even better profit. Weak fines won’t stop them.
July 5, 2024
Victoria Nourse
Supreme Chaos: The Latest SCOTUS Moves Will Affect Every American
Striking down Chevron isn’t “calling balls and strikes.” It’s changing the strike zone, the size of the plate, and even the field.
July 4, 2024
Sidney Blumenthal
If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump …
What might the current president do with monarchical immunity to act? Sorry, that’s not admissible.
July 4, 2024
Kristen Ghodsee
America, Don’t Succumb to Escapism
Our politics are a shambles, our people divided and distraught. But we must fight the urge to turn away from our nation’s troubles.
July 3, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Listen Closely to the Men Crafting the GOP’s Anti-Abortion Policy
The main dispute within Trump’s Republican Party is not about how severely to punish women for having abortions, but merely how to “frame the argument.”
July 3, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Missouri A.G. Sues New York for Dumbest Reason Ever
Andrew Bailey is accusing New York state of violating Missouri residents’ First Amendment rights.
July 2, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump Hush-Money Judge Ominously Warns a Sentence May Never Come
The Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity has delayed another one of Donald Trump’s lawsuits.
July 2, 2024
Parker Molloy
Why Does the Media Insist on Helping Steve Bannon Act the Martyr?
NBC and ABC snagged pre-prison interviews with the far-right globalist. But to what end? They became tools in his propaganda machine.
July 2, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Clarence Thomas Pushes Dangerous Definition of Assault Weapons
Thomas was not happy the Supreme Court declined to hear arguments against an assault weapons ban in Illinois.
July 2, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Supreme Court Sets Up Legal War to Weaken the Government
The high court sent nine cases back to the lower courts in light of recent rulings weakening federal agency authority.
July 2, 2024
Thom Hartmann
The Next Step Is to End All Prosecutions of Trump
Clarence Thomas says Jack Smith should go back to The Hague and prosecute European war criminals, because American fascists are now officially immune.
July 2, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Already Having Terrifying Effects
Donald Trump is trying to leverage his newfound power in his other legal battles.
July 1, 2024
Holly Brewer
The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King
The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Fox News Hit With Another Lawsuit—This Time From Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden has sued the network for allegedly violating revenge porn laws.
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
The Disturbing Footnote in Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Ruling
In a short footnote, Chief Justice John Roberts says the federal cases against Donald Trump cannot continue if he is elected.
July 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Destroys Independent Justice Department
Chief Justice John used Donald Trump’s immunity ruling to casually wreck the concept of an independent Department of Justice.
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Ruling Decimates Jack Smith’s Case
The court’s decision on Donald Trump’s immunity doesn’t just delay his trial. It guts the entire case against him.
July 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Jack Smith Over Supreme Court Ruling
The younger Trump celebrated his father essentially receiving absolute immunity.
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court Ruling That “Wreaks Havoc”
The Supreme Court justice ripped her conservative colleagues’ “flawed” decision to kneecap the federal government.
June 28, 2024
Kate Aronoff
This Is Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Try to Do the EPA’s Job
Conservative justices this week confused nitrous oxide with nitrogen oxides and then insisted that they, not the EPA, were the final word on environmental regulations.
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