The calls to step down come from both the left and center—amplified by law professors, scholarly legal journals, and anti-Trump pundits—warning about the risks to the Supreme Court and the country if Justice Sonia Sotomayor isn’t replaced while there’s...
Now that we have two presumptive nominees attacking each other at every turn, will they dare to debate? The assumption among the Washington cognoscenti is that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump is eager to take the stage with...
A Fifth Circuit ruling upholding a Texas law that requires parental consent for under-age teens to access contraception gives validity to the argument that Republicans don’t know when to stop. Emboldened by the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme...
She’s waging a valiant fight, keeping hope alive that Republican voters will realize Donald Trump is unfit for office and turn away from him before it is too late. She deserves praise for sticking with her commitment to give...
Is Nikki Haley a middle-of-the-road Republican? The kind they used to make before Donald Trump hijacked the GOP and obliterated the traditional conservative order? In messaging and demeanor, maybe, but not in policies. She’s a hardliner on the use...
In the three years since armed insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump and his allies have rewritten history to portray the rioters as patriots seeking to prevent an illegitimate government from taking power. The Jan. 6 attack was...
The Biden campaign is making a big bet on voters waking up to how much President Joe Biden has accomplished, especially how much he has transformed the judiciary. His judges elevate public defenders, voting rights lawyers, and union organizers,...
For a political party that has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to women, the Republicans most out front challenging the GOP’s Trumpian slide away from democracy are women. Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) could...
Of all the issues before voters, healthcare remains the holy grail for Democrats. In the last three election cycles, it delivered Democratic victories based on deeply held beliefs about which party could be trusted to reform a system that...
Today, it’s hard to believe the uproar that erupted when first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, traveled to Latin America to represent her husband in June 1977. There were cries of “Who...