Politics

Earlier this year, Rolling Stone reported that the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has employed the for-profit consulting firm helmed by Leonard Leo, the dark money maven and conservative Supreme Court architect, according to leaked records. Leo is best known for assembling the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. As Donald Trump’s judicial …

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is talking up revolution and the prospect of “bloodshed” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision placing the president outside the reach of criminal law. The Heritage Foundation is the once-staid think tank that, since Roberts’ arrival in 2021, has leaned …

America has fallen out of the coconut tree and into a pile of Kamala Harris memes. As pressure builds for Joe Biden to pull out of the presidential race following an abysmal performance at last Thursday’s debate, the vice president has emerged as the most likely successor to the nomination …

Standing before a room full of reporters eagerly waiting for an update on President Joe Biden following his debate debacle, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured the American public that he’s “as sharp as ever.” When asked on Wednesday during a press briefing if she had seen any “slowdowns,” …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to an accusation that he sexually assaulted a family babysitter at his home by brushing off the incident, asserting that he is not a “church boy” and had a “very rambunctious youth.” In a wide-ranging report by Vanity Fair, the former employee accused the independent …

Hunter Biden is suing Fox News for “revenge porn,” claiming the conservative news network featured several of his “intimate images” in a “politically motivated” six-part miniseries that was distributed on the Fox Nation streaming service in October 2022. The controversial miniseries, which is no longer available, was titled “The Trial …

On Monday evening, President Joe Biden addressed the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, speaking to the public for a total of four minutes and promptly leaving without taking any questions. The brief speech arrives days after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump left many Democratic lawmakers and Biden allies …

Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, Donald Trump moved to have his hush money conviction in New York tossed. According to CNN, in a letter to the judge overseeing the case, the former president’slegal team …

Donald Trump got away with it. That’s the result, anyway. Monday’s Supreme Court decision is a little more detailed: The court, by a 6-3 vote along partisan lines, granted the once-and-maybe-future president immunity from prosecution over most of his actions to overthrow the government in 2020 and 2021. But that’s …

At 7:45 p.m. Monday evening, hours after the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority greenlit Donald Trump’s disturbing immunity scheme, President Joe Biden finally showed up to weigh in on a “dangerous precedent” he said “undermines the rule and law of this nation.” His performance was not as viscerally bad as what …