McConnell’s ‘force of will’ shaped the federal judiciary As Mitch McConnell prepares to step down as leader of the Republican conference, his legacy of reshaping the federal judiciary looms in the backdrop. 04/18/2024 - 6:00 pm | View Link
Mitch McConnell's Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds The former Majority Leader threw away any precedents when he helped install two radical right wing Supreme Court justices. 04/18/2024 - 10:56 am | View Link
Plurality of Voters Do Not Want Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Resign, Polling Shows As calls increase for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from her position ahead of the 2024 presidential election (thereby allowing President Joe Biden to choose a younger successor to ... 04/18/2024 - 9:46 am | View Link
McConnell’s ‘force of will’ shaped the federal judiciary Hours after Scalia's death on Feb. 13 ... in September 2020 that Trump and the GOP-led Senate had the chance to replace a Democratic-appointed justice with a Republican-appointed justice ... 04/17/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
What We Forget About When We Talk About Sonia Sotomayor Retiring What started with a trickle of think pieces has now become a cascade of D.C. press releases and talking heads on whether Sonia Sotomayor is duty-bound to step down before the election. And this kind ... 04/16/2024 - 6:47 am | View Link
“This week, one presidential candidate has called the other a loser, made fun of him for selling Bibles, and even poked fun at his hair,” the New York Times reports.
“That kind of taunting is generally more within the purview of former President Donald J. Trump, whose insults are so voluminous and so often absurd that they have been cataloged by the hundreds.
Following the indictment of Donald Trump’s allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Margaret Hoover that those efforts came “quite close” to succeeding.
Said Richer: “I think we put ourselves in a pretty perilous situation.”
“The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering Black voters in an election year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Donald Trump suggested someone is purposely keeping him a “freezing” courtroom for his hush money criminal trial.
Said Trump: “We have another day in court, in a freezing courthouse. It’s very cold in there, on purpose I believe.”
“All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.