The Fifth Circuit has been the legal center of gravity for years. That’s probably going to change soon.
state AGs
Posted inEconomic Policy
Look to the State Trustbusters
A federal merger challenge against two home health giants has state partners, who will have to carry the ball if the Trump administration walks away from corporate enforcement.
Posted inPolitics
Resistance 2.0
Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.
Posted inPolitics
Keith Ellison: Seeing Red
Minnesota’s attorney general on how to fight back against conservative aggression at the state level
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What Kamala Harris Could Bring to the Justice Department
Harris has a notable record on an issue where the Biden administration hasn’t distinguished itself: polluter accountability.
Posted inPolitics
Josh Shapiro Mans the Electoral Fort in Pennsylvania
Can the former vice-presidential contender hold off Republican attempts to undermine voting in the Keystone State?
Posted inTAP
Kamala Harris’s Eric Holder Problem
Today on TAP: Her choice to vet candidates for vice president needed more vetting himself.
Posted inTAP
K. Harris vs. T. Hallinan, 2003
Today on TAP: The presumptive presidential nominee’s first election
Posted inTAP
The Harris Enigma
Today on TAP: What exactly does Kamala Harris stand for? What kind of president would she likely be?