At least four Justices want to debate whether the Trump Regime can flout plain constitutional language As if to invite mockery, the Supreme Court Justices chose April Fools Day to hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara (also referred to as Trump v. CASA), a case that tells us at least four Justices who voted […]
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At a March 17 press conference, a reporter asked GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson “Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop?” Johnson refused to answer because no such example exists. Here’s a quick account of the directives and problems with the Voter […]
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Luisana Rodriguez reports on the many states advancing voting rights acts despite the stand-off on federal bills to protect against vote suppression schemes.
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A panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit unanimously rejected the Trump regime’s plea to stay a lower court order to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador where men abducted from the U.S. are being held in subhuman conditions. The Court’s ruling was unusually concise and clear to non-lawyers, […]
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Editor’s note: The following thoughts are compiled from a BlueSky thread by Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut). Though we prefer the plain language of nationwide sales tax to repeating Trump’s preferred label of tariffs, Murphy beautifully summarizes the proper way to understand and frame Trump’s new sales taxes–the largest tax increase in at least several generations. […]
[Read more]The letter below is written by Hagan Scotten, an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General to quit in protest over Pam Bondi’s order to dismiss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery case. His letter came […]
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