Even after the National Park Service began removing dead and dying trees the following month, Reyes did not act. But she indicated to the lawyers that removing healthy, living trees would be altogether different—a red line of sorts, though she did not use those words. “The Court has given the Government ‘the benefit of the […]
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There are two related reasons, overlooked in the current fraught debate, why electing El-Sayed to Michigan’s open Senate seat advances, rather than conflicts with, the Jewish community’s long-term, fundamental security interests. First, the unique “comfort, safety, and security” that American Jews have enjoyed for the past 250 years are anchored by our system of constitutional […]
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Why? Because that division, traditionally one of the crown jewels of the department, is now a hollowed-out hackery run by Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump loyalist through and through. And it has no business near this case: The division oversees, or used to, a discrete set of offenses, and lying to Congress isn’t among them. The […]
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As President Trump weighed endorsing Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn of Texas this spring, he was told that damaging revelations were likely to surface about Paxton, according to people familiar with the conversations. Trump was dismissive and said there would be more negative material about Democratic nominee James Talarico. Trump plowed ahead and […]
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The criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire has reached a “milestone moment”, according to a senior Metropolitan Police officer, almost a decade after the west London tragedy in which 72 people died. Prosecutors have been asked by the Met to consider charges including manslaughter, fraud and misconduct in public office against 20 companies and […]
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Another obvious area where the court will likely feel compelled to involve itself is on President Donald Trump’s extraordinary claims of executive power. During the summer recess, for example, the Supreme Court forbade a lower court from blocking construction of an illegal ballroom on the ruins of the White House’s East Wing, over the dissents […]
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But there is more. There is overwhelming public support for term limits for justices; Congress should pass a bill calling for 18-year terms, effective upon enactment, with justices then given options of senior status or continued service on a special court of appeals, to fit the constitutional provision of service during good behavior. If it […]
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Hussein, at the time, was the leader of Iraq—and of what was without question a fascist, evil regime. American neoconservatives, a cohort that included Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Dick Cheney, and many others in the administration—had trained their bellicose eyes on Hussein since 1991, when the first President Bush repelled his invasion […]
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Among the many indicators of the new violent domestic threat in NSPM-7 are “anti-fascism, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.” The mechanism for investigating and prosecuting these new […]
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As details continue to emerge about the fraternity members who allegedly drugged and gang raped a student at Cornell University in 2024, many hope it could be a reckoning for colleges across the country. The ongoing civil lawsuit may also bring about systemic changes, even as some accuse Cornell of treating the seven defendants too […]
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