So it looks like you really can get into trouble for attempting to overthrow the U.S. government—as long as you’re not the ringleader, apparently. Rudy Giuliani, who on election night 2020 helpfully and/or drunkenly advised the Trump team…
Heat-related deaths set a record in the U.S. in 2023, and 2024 is shaping up to be worse. For now, we have a president who is doing something about it, but the right-wing Supreme Court could stop him.
Former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least September after the judge agreed Tuesday to weigh the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity invites the nation’s leader to participate in a four-year crime spree, including doing away with opponents, while secure in the knowledge that they enjoy blissful elevation above the…
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme Court.
In case you were worried about the Supreme Court’s blank check to do presidential criming, never fear! Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a chief enabler of a certain criminal former president, is here to reassure Americans that…
Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States on Monday means that Donald Trump gets absolute immunity on many things, presumptive immunity on most things, and a series of tall hurdles that must be cleared to hold him accountable…
On Monday, the Supreme Court’s far-right supermajority dealt a critical blow to democracy by granting presidents far-reaching immunity from criminal prosecution for "official" acts, eviscerating the rule of law in a country that was…
President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecution would make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in…
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for later this month.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts admonished liberal members of the court in his opinion that vastly expanded the idea of presidential immunity on Monday. The court’s three liberal members were only “fear mongering on the basis of…
The Supreme Court just gave convicted felon Donald Trump everything he wanted. In a 6-3 decision issued Monday, the court’s six conservative justices granted him sweeping immunity from key elements of the federal Jan. 6 case against him,…
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020…
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Connecticut on Monday to serve a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack.
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of George W. Bush in 2000’s landmark Bush v. Gore decision, effectively handing the presidency to the Republican, it was widely seen as a nakedly partisan, ad hoc undertaking meant to install a…
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin visited fellow autocrat Kim Jong Un earlier this month, resulting in a new Russia-North Korea defense pact. As part of the deal, Russia agrees to provide North Korea with higher-precision weapons it can aim…
If President Joe Biden is on his last leg as a candidate, you'd never know it by his effort to energize Democratic troops Friday at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
A ballot question to enshrine Nevada’s abortion rights in the state constitution has met all of the requirements to appear in front of voters in November, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office announced Friday, and Democrats across the…
President Joe Biden had one job Thursday, one job only—prove to America that he still has what’s needed to be president, despite rampant questions about his age. He didn’t do that. Instead, he validated the worst criticisms.
The National Republican Congressional Committee finally joined its peers when it announced its first batch of fall TV ad reservations on Tuesday, making it the last of the four largest outside groups involved in House races to do so.
House Speaker Mike Johnson—an architect of Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election who had to be evacuated from the Capitol as the mob descended on Jan. 6, 2021, and who stood with Trump as a New York jury convicted the former…
Thursday night’s debate was a microcosm of where we are. It told you everything you need about the two presumptive nominees as human beings, everything about the two political parties they represent, everything about the media that both…
The Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent on Friday that said courts should largely defer to federal agencies when it comes to interpreting and enforcing ambiguous laws written by Congress. It ruled 6-3 in Relentless v. Department…