Advocates call for women inmates to be released instead of transferred from embattled Dublin prison "We see this as a huge evasion of accountability. While we support prison closure, the way this closure is happening is deeply harmful to people inside," one advocate from The California Coalition for ... 04/19/2024 - 11:10 am | View Link
Mayor "appalled" by transfer of death row inmates to nearby prison The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation transferred the inmates to the California Institute for Men as part of Proposition 66, which allows condemned inmates to participate in ... 04/19/2024 - 4:40 am | View Link
Trump's historic hush-money trial gets underway; 1st day ends without any jurors picked The first criminal trial of any former U.S. president began as Donald Trump vies to reclaim the White House and ended without a single juror being seated and more than a third dismissed. 04/15/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
What to expect at jury selection for Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial Jury selection is set to begin Monday to choose 12 New Yorkers who will ultimately decide whether to convict former President Donald Trump in his first criminal trial. 04/15/2024 - 12:29 am | View Link
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University professor, and Bret Stephens, New York Times columnist, speak to Fareed about the boundaries of free speech on college campuses — and whether Columbia University should have called in the police to arrest pro-Palestinian protesters.
Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U. S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American history—including systemic racism and discrimination against LGBTQ people—Bridges has become something else: a threat.
University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw said the U. S. Supreme Court appears poised to create a presidential immunity doctrine just to protect former President Donald Trump.
Shaw spoke out on ABC's This Week on Sunday following arguments before the high court in Trump's election interference case.
ABC host George Stephanopoulos observed that the court "is ready to carve out some immunity for presidents."
"So I'm a constitutional law professor," Shaw explained.
Fox's Laura Ingraham is very angry that CNN's John Berman dared to point out that none of Trump's family members have chosen to attend his trial in Manhattan while discussing Trump's whiny birthday message to Melania.
Hey Laura, if Trump knew how to keep his you-know-what in his pants, maybe he wouldn't be missing his wife's birthday while he sits in court.
Here's more from Mother Jones on the message:
The former president, who is on trial for falsifying business records related to an alleged affair, complained that he couldn’t be with his wife.
He is also pushing back against the fact that, through administrative actions and executive orders, Biden has made himself one of the most powerful presidents ever.