Here are some poll results from last summer, which are in line with a ton of other polls. Popularity—unfavorable, 60 to 38 percent. Does Trump think he’s above the law? Yes, 63 to 37. Do you support or oppose Trump’s indictments? Yes, 53 to 39. Do you think Trump has committed a crime? Yes, 62 […]
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Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Note that Cheney stated unequivocally that voters deserve to know whether Trump committed crimes while trying to overthrow democracy—and deserve a full accounting of those actions—precisely because the sheer gravity of what he did threatens the democratic system itself. As Will Stancil points out, Democrats sometimes hesitate to talk this way, out of fear of […]
Read MoreTrump Is Broke as Heck and Completely “Embarrassed” by It
Lauren Boebert, for her part, said in a statement that her son “will take responsibility for his actions and should be held accountable for poor decisions just like any other citizen.” “I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man, and the subject of attention that […]
Read MoreJust Like Mom: Lauren Boebert’s Son Has His Own Sleazy Sex Scandal
Lauren Boebert, for her part, said in a statement that her son “will take responsibility for his actions and should be held accountable for poor decisions just like any other citizen.” “I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man, and the subject of attention that […]
Read MoreLauren Boebert Has Another Weird Sex Scandal in the Family
Lauren Boebert, for her part, said in a statement that her son “will take responsibility for his actions and should be held accountable for poor decisions just like any other citizen.” “I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man, and the subject of attention that […]
Read MoreTrump Has Already Won His Immunity Case at the Supreme Court
Perhaps the most likely reason for taking up the case is that at least some of the justices think presidents have a limited form of immunity from criminal prosecution. Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard University law professor and conservative legal scholar, theorized that the court might grant presidents a form of “qualified immunity”—not in the sense […]
Read MoreExperts: The Supreme Court is Absolutely Saving Trump in Immunity Case
A big reason for his decades-long fight with former Senator John McCain, for example, was over McCain’s signature campaign finance law. In 2002, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold Act, which aimed to limit the role of “soft money” in political campaigns as well as the political advertising of corporations and […]
Read MoreHere’s How Long the Supreme Court Could Delay Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial
A big reason for his decades-long fight with former Senator John McCain, for example, was over McCain’s signature campaign finance law. In 2002, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold Act, which aimed to limit the role of “soft money” in political campaigns as well as the political advertising of corporations and […]
Read MoreHow Long Can the Corrupt Supreme Court Delay Trump’s Immunity Trial?
A big reason for his decades-long fight with former Senator John McCain, for example, was over McCain’s signature campaign finance law. In 2002, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold Act, which aimed to limit the role of “soft money” in political campaigns as well as the political advertising of corporations and […]
Read MoreTexas executes man despite contested evidence
What happened? Texas executed Ivan Cantu on Wednesday, rejecting calls for a rehearing amid recanted testimony and allegations of suppressed exculpatory evidence. Cantu, 50, maintained he was innocent in the 2000 murder of his cousin James Mosqueda and Mosqueda’s fiancée, Amy Kitchen. Who said what? After multiple courts “comprehensively” reviewed his conviction, “Cantu has finally […]
Read MoreHow the Supreme Court Created One Nation Under the Gun
Accordingly, his lawyers filed a motion to suppress any evidence obtained as a result of Homer’s arrest, including the discovered firearm. They claimed that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen and the subsequent expansion of New York’s concealed-carry laws changed the calculus for when a person’s behavior becomes suspicious enough for an arrest. “Even assuming […]
Read MoreSlice wants to make it easier for companies to distribute and track equity
It’s not all about the Benjamins, baby — particularly for executive compensation, but increasingly, all levels of employees at firms around the globe. At the start of the first dot com boom in the 1990s, equity emerged as one of the most compelling parts of new hire offer packages for employees at varying levels, according […]
Read MoreDonald Trump Is Seriously Struggling to Post His New York Fraud Bond
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreBillionaire Donald Trump Can’t Post His New York Fraud Bond
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreAlabama Republicans Display Shocking Hypocrisy on IVF With New Bill
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreAlabama Republicans’ New IVF Bill Is a Blatant Election Ploy
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreAlabama Republicans Want to Protect IVF… Until After the Election
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreAlabama Republicans Suddenly Have an IVF Bill. It’s Worse Than It Seems.
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreBill Ackman Is Going to Help Save Journalism
But Business Insider never made any allegation of intent on Oxman’s part in its reporting. The word “intent” appears nowhere in the publication’s articles. The reporters simply described the use of improperly cited or copied text without ascribing any motive to it, such as fraud or deceit. It is possible to accidentally plagiarize text or […]
Read MoreBill Ackman’s 77-Page-Long Case Against Himself
But Business Insider never made any allegation of intent on Oxman’s part in its reporting. The word “intent” appears nowhere in the publication’s articles. The reporters simply described the use of improperly cited or copied text without ascribing any motive to it, such as fraud or deceit. It is possible to accidentally plagiarize text or […]
Read MoreSupreme Court wary of state social media regulations
What happened? The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the tech industry’s challenge to Texas and Florida laws that would limit the ability of social media companies to moderate content on their platforms. A majority of justices appeared skeptical that the states were lawfully protecting the free speech rights of users. Who said what? The […]
Read MoreThe Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech
Moreover, the common carriage approach isn’t a recipe for more hate speech: This problem is a function of these platforms’ basic business model—surveillance advertising. In the 1990s, people could express white supremacist views on bulletin boards, but their posts wouldn’t be amplified and disseminated widely the way they often are today. But today’s social media […]
Read MoreImagine a President Trump Who Owes Saudi Arabia $540 Million
Here are some poll results from last summer, which are in line with a ton of other polls. Popularity—unfavorable, 60 to 38 percent. Does Trump think he’s above the law? Yes, 63 to 37. Do you support or oppose Trump’s indictments? Yes, 53 to 39. Do you think Trump has committed a crime? Yes, 62 […]
Read MoreWhen a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime
This Monday, we celebrated Presidents’ Day, so named because it happens to fall roughly around the birthdays of noted Aquarians George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (February 19 actually was Washington’s birthday, which means we get an extra point for accuracy, I guess.) Congress, as it is wont to do, opted to extend the three-day weekend […]
Read MoreWhen a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime
This Monday, we celebrated Presidents’ Day, so named because it happens to fall roughly around the birthdays of noted Aquarians George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (February 19 actually was Washington’s birthday, which means we get an extra point for accuracy, I guess.) Congress, as it is wont to do, opted to extend the three-day weekend […]
Read MoreAlabama’s IVF Ruling Is a Dire Warning to Other States
Other justices on the court took a more expansive approach. One of them was Chief Justice Tom Parker, who is a major figure in the fetal personhood movement. ProPublica described him in 2014 as the Alabama judge who “has figured out how to dismantle Roe v. Wade.” Through his rulings and advocacy, he helped elevate […]
Read MoreAlabama’s Unhinged Embryo Ruling Shows Where the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Headed
Where might this ruling take us in this legal era following the Dobbs decision—an era already marked by uncertainty as if by design? (Some media coverage so far has unfortunately only fed the uncertainty, mistakenly referring to “frozen eggs” rather than “frozen embryos.” Frozen eggs have not been found to be people—at least not yet.) […]
Read MoreElon Musk and Amazon Team Up to Try to Demolish Workers’ Rights
Musk also claimed during the event that unions “naturally try to create negativity in a company.” While that assertion is questionable, unionization could imperil Musk’s meticulous efforts at image management and brand promotion, which have helped turn Tesla and SpaceX into multi-billion-dollar companies. It would also make it harder for Musk to impose his own […]
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness
If it does so, that will have ramifications for all unhoused people, from those who have been chronically homeless for some time to those currently falling into homelessness. And that last category is a large one: In the time since the January 2023 homeless count, there have been at least 1,076,396 evictions across 10 states […]
Read MoreThe Zombie Law Trump Wants to Use to Ban Abortion Nationwide
Dickson, Mitchell’s partner in Comstock, told Littlefield that such ordinances were “de facto” bans on abortion, achieved by prohibiting clinics use of the mail. “If an abortion facility cannot receive abortion-inducing drugs or any abortion paraphernalia,” he explained, “then how can they perform abortions?” In towns and counties that had adopted one of Mitchell and […]
Read MoreTrump’s Devastating $355 Million Penalty Blows Up His Biggest Lie
The stunning news that Donald Trump has been hit by a $355 million penalty in his civil fraud case in New York deals a big blow to his mystique as master of “the deal.” But Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling also exposes a deeper undercurrent of scamming that Trump has been surfing on for decades and […]
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