On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that American presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for any “official acts” they take while in office. For President Joe Biden, this should be great news. Suddenly a host of previously unthinkable options have opened up to him:He could dispatch Seal Team 6 to …
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Donald Trump spent years being bitterly mad at a Supreme Court majority and a conservative legal movement that did not work hard enough to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. But ahead of the 2024 election, the court seems to be making up for his troubles. The high court …
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Top Democrats, including elected officials, political operatives, and major party donors want President Joe Biden to step aside — “immediately,” many of them say — for a candidate who can more effectively make the case against Donald Trump, and also project the ability to do the hardest job on the …
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The Supreme Court just ruled that politicians can essentially criminalize homelessness. The court ruled in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that an Oregon town can ban sleeping outdoors. The 6-3 ruling fell along ideological lines. “Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime,” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in …
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Leonard Leo, best known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is fueling an assault on efforts to preserve the environment and the planet. His dark money network has also been funding campaigns to dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA) — 50 years after it was established to …
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In January, a year and half after the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees gave states free reign to restrict abortion — even if that meant forcing women to carry dangerous, ill-fated pregnancies to term— the court doubled-down on that decision, stepping in to ensure Idaho could continue denying abortions to patients …
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This article was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with Rolling Stone. “It could be two steps forward or 20 steps back, cautious optimism or completely hopeless.” The next meeting of the largest annual climate conference in the world takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, just six days after the …
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Ahead of Thursday night’s planned presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, each candidate’s campaign brass is viewing the televised event as a potential inflection point in a race that’s remained stubbornly stable and uncomfortably close in the polls for months. Each campaign, according to senior …
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On a Thursday two years ago today, at exactly 10:10 in the morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs, the landmark case overruling Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise —almost two months earlier, a leaked draft of …
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Brooklyn’s Eastville Comedy Club is abuzz with banter ahead of a comedy show fundraiser for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.). Ten minutes before the opening routine, the room is nearly full. The ethnically diverse, mixed-aged mass reflects the constituency that carried Bowman to a surprise 2020 win for the 16th district’s …
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