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Trump Is Still a Loser: Courts Edition
Note: Norman Eisen is on vacation. Joshua Kolb, senior counsel and manager of rapid legal response at Democracy Defenders Action, is writing in his stead this week. It’s been a…
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What to know about Luigi Mangione's guilty plea in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea on Friday to federal stalking-to-kill charges raised…
Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe's reservation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused on Friday to block the Trump administration from…
Shootings in Michigan leave 5 people plus suspect dead following large-scale search
A series of shootings in Michigan left five people plus a suspect dead Friday, police…
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Tom the Dancing Bug
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Black Voting Power Is Being Dismantled. Is It Too Late to Stop Its Erosion?
To understand the real impacts of Louisiana v. Callais’s greenlight of racial gerrymandering, we must first look to our history.…
Next on the Docket: Dismantling Democracy
It takes a village to raze a constitutional democracy. Donald Trump and his enablers in the executive and legislative branches…
Tom Morello Is Still Raging
By Alan LightTom Morello at Summerside Festival in Grenchen, Switzerland, 2024 (credit: Dario Demarco via Wikimedia Commons)“I didn’t choose to…
We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges
By Norm Eisen, Nancy Gertner, Richard Painter, and Matthew SeligmanThis week, I asked bipartisan experts on ethics and judging to…
Champagne Chicken
“Oh, my darling, I can’t wait to return to Paris, / and to stroll with you arm in arm…. Let’s…
Caitlin Flanagan on the ‘Cornell 7’ and the Battle of the Sexes. Plus…
Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Maddy Kearns has two drinks with the commonsense congresswoman who’s constantly in trouble…
Taylor Swift Got Her Happy Ending. It May Have Killed Her Music.
Last week, Taylor Swift released four brand-new songs—and the public immediately panned them. What happened to the world’s biggest pop…