The DOJ could also encourage states to increase surveillance of gender-affirming care through tools like PDMPs, Oliva explained. This could create a chilling effect on health care providers, exacerbating their fears of legal or professional repercussions for offering essential care to transgender youth. In fact, states like Texas could exploit the PDMP system to track […]
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Sacks is a part of a contingent of tech bros, including Musk and Thiel, who have leveraged their immense wealth, power, and influence to unite conservatives and former leftists behind a cynical and conspiratorial reactionary vision against liberalism. As The New Republic’s Jacob Silverman noted in 2022, Sacks has spent years “quietly becoming the leading […]
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“Trump has been complaining privately to people that he feels like Hegseth should have been more upfront with him, that he gave him opportunities,” Haberman told the network. “We also know … some of these things didn’t come up in a vet that the Trump folks said that they did of Hegseth.… It’s hard to […]
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As I noted in June, the Supreme Court’s approach to this case from the start all but suggested the outcome. The justices chose a case where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had written a narrower ruling that emphasized judicial humility, in contrast to the Molotov cocktails usually lobbed by the neighboring Fifth Circuit. The […]
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Musk, along with Trump crony and business executive Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tasked by Trump to run the figurehead Department of Government Efficiency, where their mission will be to eliminate government waste. It’s no secret that their vision of waste includes Social Security, and they seem to have the backing of Trump and Vice President–elect […]
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Musk, along with Trump crony and business executive Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tasked by Trump to run the figurehead Department of Government Efficiency, where their mission will be to eliminate government waste. It’s no secret that their vision of waste includes Social Security, and they seem to have the backing of Trump and Vice President–elect […]
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John Podesta (former counselor to Obama; senior adviser to Biden on climate policy) Samatha Power (former ambassador to the United Nations under Obama, administrator of AID under Biden) Bill Priestap (former assistant director for counterintelligence, FBI under Obama) Susan Rice (former national security adviser under Obama, director of the Domestic Policy Council under Biden) Rod […]
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Perhaps Denman’s greatest historical contributions to the court were his consequential rulings on civil rights issues. In May 1943, Denman and his fellow judges ruled on the case of Korematsu v. United States and Endo v. United States—two cases challenging the government’s decision to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. Denman at times clashed […]
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Perhaps Denman’s greatest historical contributions to the Court were his consequential rulings on civil rights issues. In May 1943, Denman and his fellow judges ruled on the case of Korematsu vs. United States and Endo vs. United States—two cases challenging the government’s decision to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. Denman at times clashed […]
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Lemire explained that Patel, with his penchant for “deep state” conspiracy theories and threatening journalists, is a pick designed to please far-right extremists. “People I talked to say this pick was a nod to the extreme right-wing portions of Trump base, the Steve Bannon, ultra-MAGA sector here who had been disappointed by Trump’s picks like […]
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For that exact reason, the Hunter Biden pardon is an early Christmas gift to the president-elect, who is already planning to exercise the pardon power in even more grotesquely self-interested ways. He has long promised to pardon the January 6 rioters, for example, who attempted to overthrow the 2020 election on his behalf four years […]
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But he has the quality that matters most: He’s a one-thousand-percent Trump loyalist who has pledged to come after Trump’s real and perceived foes in the political and media worlds. He’s called the media “the most powerful enemy” of the United States of America and has vowed: “We’re going to come after the people in […]
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At the height of the first Covid lockdown in April 2020, an elderly war veteran set himself the target of walking 100 laps of his daughter’s garden before his 100th birthday. Captain Tom Moore‘s determination and spirit touched the nation’s heart, and he raised an unprecedented £38 million for NHS charities. When he died just […]
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It’s just staggering. The man called Georgia’s top election official and said, in essence, go find me 11,780 votes. Next, he very obviously incited an insurrection against the United States. Then, after that failed, he walked out of the White House with 13,000 government documents, at least 300 of which were classified, and spent months […]
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It’s just staggering. The man called Georgia’s top election official and said, in essence, go find me 11,780 votes. Next, he very obviously incited an insurrection against the United States. Then, after that failed, he walked out of the White House with 13,000 government documents, at least 300 of which were classified, and spent months […]
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Unfortunately, our courts’ willingness to accept lethal junk science is not restricted to SBS. The problem is so widespread that, in recent years, Texas and six other states have passed laws allowing defendants to appeal their convictions on the basis of advancements in science to ensure no one remains in prison over faulty evidence and […]
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The op-ed opens with a certain lack of self-awareness. “Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government,” the two men wrote. They depicted an America where most policy decisions aren’t made by “the democratically elected president and his political appointees” but by “millions of unelected, unappointed civil […]
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The op-ed opens with a certain lack of self-awareness. “Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government,” the two men wrote. They depicted an America where most policy decisions aren’t made by “the democratically elected president and his political appointees” but by “millions of unelected, unappointed civil […]
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Last week, the same bill failed to advance out of the House because it failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass during a suspension of the lower chamber’s rules. It was subsequently sent back to committee and retooled for a simple majority vote. While 52 Democrats voted for the bill previously, enormous pressure […]
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The mood in the lower courts may also be changing. Judge James Ho, whom Trump named to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in his first term, became famous in the late 2000s for a law review article in which he made an originalist case for birthright citizenship. “Nothing in text or history suggests that […]
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DOGE’s actual goals are far less cutesy. Musk campaigned on the idea that he would use DOGE to personally enact sweeping structural changes to the executive branch through budget cuts, civil service purges, and more. Trump gave this project his blessing last week by naming Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a right-wing businessman who ran in […]
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It’s all kind of like that scene in The Manchurian Candidate when the North Korean operative asks Raymond Shaw who’s the best-liked member of the unit, and Raymond says it’s Johnny so-and-so, whatever the guy’s name was; and the North Korean man politely orders Raymond to go shoot Johnny right between the eyes, which Raymond […]
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