Over the past two decades, the Supreme Court has been captured by dark-money interests, and justices are reshaping our laws and society according to their reactionary, far-right vision. It’s a problem that would only be compounded with a second Donald Trump administration pursuing an extreme, right-wing policy agenda. Trump’s judicial …
Read More »Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction
Donald Trump says he wants the Supreme Court to intervene in his upcoming sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. “The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social, …
Read More »Washington Republican Softens Stance After Repeatedly Comparing Abortion to Slavery
Joe Kent — the far-right Republican congressional candidate who lost his race in a shocking upset two years ago— has some thoughts about abortion. Kent thinks that years from now we, as a society, will look back on the current debate over access to reproductive care in this country in …
Read More »Fauci Testimony Turns Chaotic: 'Most Insane Hearing I've Attended'
A hearing in the House Oversight Committee once again devolved into chaos as Republican lawmakers attempted to pillory former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci over his involvement in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fauci was summoned before the committee on Monday, where Republicans …
Read More »Supreme Court Architect Demands Justices Shield Big Oil From Historic Climate Trial
Leonard Leo is known as the architect of the Supreme Court for good reason: He helped Donald Trump pick three Supreme Court justices, and his dark money network led PR campaigns to install five of its six conservative justices. Leo’s network also funds politicians and organizations pressing the court to …
Read More »Trump Denies Ever Saying 'Lock Her Up.' He Did … Several Times
In an interview on Fox & Friends, filmed 48 hours after he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Donald Trump attempted to rewrite history. Now that he is facing legal consequences for paying hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, the former president is denying he …
Read More »Trump on Possibility of Jail or House Arrest: 'I'm OK With It'
Donald Trump is putting up a brave face and cashing in following his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records for a hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The former president said he is “OK” with potentially facing house arrest or a prison sentence — however unlikely …
Read More »Trump, Who Famously Tried to Ban TikTok, Joins TikTok
Donald Trump is officially on TikTok, an app he once tried to ban. The former president joined the China-based social media platform on Saturday night, posting a video of himself at an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in New Jersey. “The president is now on TikTok,” UFC CEO Dana White said …
Read More »Trump Threatens Public 'Breaking Point' If Jailed. Schiff Says He's 'Inciting Violence'
Rep. Adam Schiff warned that Donald Trump is “inciting violence” when he said that the American public will reach a “breaking point” if he is put on house arrest or sentenced to prison. “I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” Trump said during a Fox News interview that …
Read More »An Insurrection, a Pandemic, and Celebrities: Inside Biden's Rocky Transition Into the White House
There have been a dozen or so books published on Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign and another dozen or so on his time in the White House. Roadblocked is the first and only book focused on that tumultuous time between the campaign and inauguration, a period when over a thousand people, …
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