Politics

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, on Tuesday released a compilation of threatening voicemails received by his D.C. office. The voicemails contain graphic descriptions threatening violence and death towards Kinzinger and his family. Voicemails left to lawmakers are traditionally reviewed by interns and …

Imprisoned basketball player Brittney Griner has appealed to Joe Biden in a heartfelt letter, asking the president to help bring her home. Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, confirmed to news outlets that the letter was delivered to the president on Monday, July 4. The majority of the letter remains private, …

After seven people were killed in a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade in the Highland Park suburb of Chicago, Republican lawmakers are grasping at anything they can to avoid acknowledging America’s gun problem. The suspected gunman, Robert E. Crimo III, opened fire shortly after 10 a.m. on …

The Fulton County grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s alleged meddling in Georgia‘s 2020 presidential election has slapped a bevy of subpoenas on several figures tied to the former president, including Rudy Giuliani and Lindsey Graham. John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesbro, and Jenna Ellis — all of which were involved …

According to Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson‘s devastating testimony to the Jan. 6 committee this week — where she revealed the inner workings of the Trump White House in the lead up to and during the Capitol attack — has inspired other witnesses to come …

Former president Donald Trump has endorsed some wacky candidates since leaving office, including Michigan’s Republican nominee for secretary of state, Kristina Karamo. In a podcast episode unearthed by CNN’s KFile, Karamo claimed that abortion is “child sacrifice” and a “satanic practice,” CNN revealed on Sunday. Karamo expressed her absurd beliefs …

As the former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards helped transform the federation of women’s healthcare clinics into a political juggernaut, all while deflecting both Republican efforts to strip the organization of federal funding and vicious attacks on her character by religious fanatics. When Richards left the organization after 12 …

Law is supposed to be an objective discipline. We praise the “rule of law” as an immutable hallmark of the American legal system, and take solace in the ideal that justice should be dispensed fairly and evenly regardless of who is dispensing it. Our judges wear black robes because they …

Former President Trump’s organization and his allies are footing or promising to foot the legal bills of more than a dozen witnesses called to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, according to a report from The New York Times. The revelation follows the Jan. 6 committee indicating that Trump allies …

The trouble in Orange County Public Schools began, perhaps unsurprisingly, at a seminar called “Camp Legal.” The meeting’s stated purpose was for the district’s attorneys to walk school administrators through changes to law, a part of their annual training. But Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, better known as the …