Even When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests, Many Judges Choose Not to Recusewww.propublica.org Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.
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Ethics R Us. Baltimore.
Refugee from Twitter, blogging, and who knows what else.
Refugee from Twitter, blogging, and who knows what else.
Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texaswww.pnas.org
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Opinion | The Dismissal of the Trump Classified Documents Case Is Deeply Dangerouswww.nytimes.com Eight federal judges have rejected the claim that Judge Eileen Cannon has now endorsed that no law authorizes the appointment of a special counsel.
RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...
Opinion | How Baltimore made its inner harbor (almost) swimmablewww.washingtonpost.com Baltimore has improved the quality of its public waterways. Other cities can, too.
Schiff Warned of Wipeout for Democrats if Biden Remains in Racewww.nytimes.com Representative Adam B. Schiff of California told attendees at a Democratic fund-raiser that the party would lose the Senate and miss a chance to take the House if the president did not drop out.
After Saturday, Trump’s Devotees See ‘God’s Protection’www.nytimes.com Some of Donald J. Trump’s followers had long viewed him as handpicked by God. The attempted assassination has only increased such quasi-religious devotion and rhetoric.
Opinion | J.D. Vance: The Math on Ukraine Doesn’t Add Upwww.nytimes.com Ukraine needs more men than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies. And it needs more material than the United States can provide.
On Not Being Pathetictalkingpointsmemo.com Jon Chait has a new article up at New York Magazine in...
For the Rest of the World, the U.S. President Has Always Been Above the Lawwww.foreignaffairs.com Americans will now know what a lack of accountability means.
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
GOP Senate Hopeful Says Dems Want to Turn Immigrants Transgenderwww.advocate.com Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, says that Democrats are bringing "illegal immigrants" to the U.S. to turn them trans.
J.D. Vance's horrendous record of homophobia and transphobiawww.advocate.com Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick hasn't been a senator long — but he's been in the public eye long enough to accrue a strongly anti-LGBTQ+ record.
Project 2025 – The Department of Statenucleardiner.wordpress.com The Project 2025 chapter* on the State Department is a plan to transform the State Department into the President’s political arm in international affairs. Institutional knowledge would be jettisoned, ...