The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The sky is clearing over the Great Smoky Mountains here Saturday morning, making way for a brilliant sunrise, and the dark clouds shrouding American democracy are beginning to blow aside to offer a glimmer of light at the end of the tumultuous tunnel of…
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For Ruth Bader Ginsburg it was all About Principle; for Mitch McConnell it’s all About Power
By Robert Reich – People in public life tend to fall into one of two broad categories – those who are motivated by principle, and those motivated by power. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday night at the age of 87, exemplified the first. When he nominated her in 1993, Bill Clinton called her…
The Supreme Court is Now at Stake Too in the Monumental Election of 2020
Death Penalty Drug Sparks Controversy in Arkansas
By Kimberely Blackburn – Delta Digital News Service – VARNER, Ark. â The last man Arkansas plans to execute in April is not a saint. Sentenced to life for the 1998 death of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff cheerleader Dominique Hurd, Kenneth Williams escaped in 1999 after 19 days in prison. Williams robbed and…
Supreme Court Upholds EPA’s Power to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act
By Glynn Wilson – The United States Supreme Court upheld the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the air pollution from coal-fired power plants on Tuesday in a ruling that is being hailed as a major victory for the environment but a political setback for the Obama administration. The 6-to-2 ruling upholds the…