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Mike Pence’s most trusted staffers and advisers have voluntarily testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. And reports are that they all did so with not just his blessing but his exhortation. Yet Pence himself has not testified. And all indications are that he has no intention of doing so … voluntarily.… Read more.
Chief Justice John Roberts himself confirmed yesterday that the leaked draft opinion, which delineates the reasoning for the (Republican) Supreme Court to finally overrule Roe v. Wade, “is authentic.” I commented on the Mississippi law that provided the pretext for the Court to deliver this death blow to abortion rights in America in “Abortion Brings… Read more.
“A picture is worth a thousand words” Never before in the history of American politics has that adage been more apropos than everything this picture says about this time in America’s fraught march toward a more perfect union. But I’d be remiss not to comment on the fact that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,… Read more.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni’ Thomas, will cause him to retire in utter disgrace. This is unavoidable now. Because, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, she sent then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows a flurry of text messages, some of which The Washington Post published last… Read more.
By congressional practice, the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson gave senators an opportunity to examine her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court. But Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seized it to peddle conspiracies and pander to the MAGA kooks who now compose the base of their party. Jackson wrote over 570 opinions during… Read more.
Trust me, Ketanji Brown Jackson is far more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than Amy Coney Barrett. And Blacks everywhere should be proud and encouraged in equal measure that she is even more suited for this pioneering role, as the first Black woman, than Thurgood Marshall was, as the first Black man, when… Read more.
To his victims and their sympathizers, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is a White vigilante who committed double murder. To his defenders, he’s a folk hero who lived out their gun-rights fantasies. Rittenhouse acquitted Gun violence has become such a feature of American life that no one should be surprised that a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. But the following from a CNN… Read more.
Cohen free to unleash on Trump Michael Cohen walked into his apartment building on the Upper East Side Friday evening to begin his home confinement term, ending a weeks-long fiasco that saw him arrested and returned to federal prison for refusing terms of his confinement. … [Judge Alvin Hellerstein] on Thursday ordered Cohen’s release from… Read more.
Donald Trump doesn’t have much to commend in his presidential legacy, but criminal justice reform stands out. Trump’s criminal justice reform The legislation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday makes big changes to the treatment and rehabilitation of low-level federal prisoners. The new law, called the First Step Act, retroactively applies changes Congress made to drug sentencing… Read more.
Black users of crack cocaine are far more likely to end up in jail than White users of powder cocaine. Nothing exemplifies unequal justice in America better than this. Two things explain this disparity: racism and wealth. They also explain why Blacks who steal peanuts end up in jail while Whites who embezzle millions walk… Read more.
