By Glynn Wilson – If justice was indeed blind and fair in all cases, Donald Trump would be standing trial today for his crimes against the United States Constitution and American democracy, not running for president again as a major party’s nominee. New evidence disclosed in a court brief made public on Wednesday by Federal…
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Federal Judge in Trump Election Interference Case Accuses His Lawyers of Stalling Tactics
Staff Report – The case that could have done in Trump for good came up in federal court in Washington today, and it does not look good for any kind of active prosecution before the Nov. 5 election. The federal judge accused former President Donald Trump’s lawyer of more stalling tactics. But since any decision…
Trump Indicted Again for Plotting to Overturn the 2020 Election
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In one more effort to save American democracy from Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, special prosecutor Jack Smith filed another indictment against the former president in federal court on Tuesday, once again accused him of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.…
Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling Gives Trump the Power of King George III
On the eve of Independence Day, six right-wing justices issued an unhinged and dangerous ruling – Guest Column – By Mitchell Zimmerman – If you hadn’t read the news in four years — or just arrived from another galaxy — the Supreme Court’s de facto grant of immunity to Donald Trump for his alleged federal…
Conservative Supreme Court Rules Trump Has Some Immunity from Prosecution for Jan. 6
By Glynn Wilson – The conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated ruling on Monday claiming that former President Donald Trump is in fact entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for his actions of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection against his own government on…
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Colorado Court Ruling Banning Trump From Ballot as an Insurrectionist
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Supreme Court avoided the question of whether Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, but struck down a Colorado Supreme Court ruling saying he was an insurrectionist and could therefore be banned from the Republican primary ballot in that state. In an unusual move…
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Immunity Appeal
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The god damn United States Supreme Court announced its agreement on Wednesday to take up the case of whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection in a corrupt plot to overturn the results…
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Supreme Court Agrees to Review the Colorado Decision to Ban Trump from the Republican Primary Ballot
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the same day when President Joe Biden addressed the nation from Valley Forge warning about the existential threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump, the United States Supreme Court chose to try to usurp the news in a Friday afternoon announcement that it would indeed take up…
Democrats Question Social Media Giants on Spread of Abortion Misinformation
By Danielle J. Brown – Maryland Matters – ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In the new landscape of abortion discourse following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court, Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin and other Democrats are calling on top social media sites to combat potentially harmful misinformation related to abortion access and…
U.S. Supreme Court Public Approval Stands at Record Low
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — American public approval of the United States Supreme Court remains the lowest in public opinion history as this conservative majority of 6-3 made up of Trump and Bush appointees continues its onslaught of rulings upending decades of established precedent. The latest public approval rating…
How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises
In lavishing gifts on the Supreme Court justice, the billionaire GOP donor may have violated tax laws, according to tax experts – By Paul Kiel – ProPublica For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs to divulge details about his gifts to Supreme Court…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Legal Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With another stroke of their blood-soaked computer keyboards, the activist judges on the Trump-Bush conservative Supreme Court might as well have taken an axe to the Constitutional separation of powers and splintered the power of the Executive branch to make policy on matters it is…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action
Legal Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is great to find out on Thursday, June 29, 2023 — thanks to a conservative majority on the Supreme Court — that on the eve of American Independence Day, the United States has finally reached the zenith of its founding, self-evident pledge, “that all…
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With Republican Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski – ProPublica – In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of…
Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School: Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and…
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and A Cozy Friendship With Billionaire Harlan Crow
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski – ProPublica – In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago…
A Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Supreme Court
By Andrew Perez, The Lever – Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica.org – An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system,…
Emboldened by Exoneration in Mueller Probe, Trump Administration Moves to Strike Down Health Care Law
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump didn’t waste any time in showing his true priorities just a day after he and the country learned of his apparent exoneration in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his involvement in conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. Trump and his Department of Justice reversed…
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Working People Basic Legal Rights
By Glynn Wilson – Where are the howls of protest in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington? Where are the denunciations from unions and the trial lawyer associations? Where are comments from Democrats on Facebook and Twitter denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Monday gutting the rights of workers to collectively bargain…