A primer on one of the Democrats’ most powerful tools to rein in the president
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John Roberts (the Tortoise) Is Outrunning Trump (the Hare)
To advance the conservative agenda, Roberts invokes the fiction of a nonpartisan judiciary.Â
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Will Mueller Survive?
A conversation with former Associate White House Counsel Ian Bassin
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Tree of Life Vigils Assert Unity in the Face of Hate
On Tuesday, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, a nationwide movement of progressive Jews, led a vigil in front of the White House in the wake of the October 27 massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 dead. The action, along with similar vigils coordinated across the country, mourned the shooting’s victims while […]
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The Message of the Synagogue Slaughter
Trump has been inviting carnage, and now he has it.
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Liberal Voters Finally Notice the War Over the Courts — Decades After Conservatives Did
For decades, only social conservatives made the courts a make-or-break voting issue. Can liberals now up their game and win the war?
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The Only Good to Come of the Kavanaugh Fight
At least we will have greater clarity about a right-wing Supreme Court.
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Trump and McConnell Take Gaslighting to New Level in Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight
The use of an anti-Semitic trope to condemn protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights signals a turning point in the authoritarian trajectory of our politics.
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Thursday’s Anti-Kavanaugh March
Sexual-assault survivors and protesters demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court against Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
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The Collins Conundrum
Maine’s court of public opinion considers the case of Brett Kavanaugh—and of Susan Collins, too.
