‘We Needed a Pitbull, We Got a Purse Dog’: Bill Maher Rips Merrick Garland For Going Soft On Trump

mediaite.com Real Time host Bill Maher railed against Attorney General Merrick Garland for not prosecuting former President Donald Trump more aggressively during the 2024 election. The…

Donald Trump's latest move in Mar-a-Lago case "doomed"

newsweek.com Legal analyst Steve Vladeck wrote Saturday in an opinion piece for MSNBC that a recent move by former President Donald Trump's lawyers in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents…

More on the New York Trump Case and the First Amendment

reason.com I thank Steve for his clarification below about his theory of why Trump might have a First Amendment defense in the New York case. As I understand it, Steve's argument can…

Hans Bader on Selective Law Enforcement

reason.com I have been increasingly aware of, and disturbed by, instances of local police declining the requests of universities to help the universities–which generally do not have…

Breaking: New Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Coinbase, Brian Armstrong

coingape.com Crypto exchange firm Coinbase faces another class action lawsuit alleging the company misled investors into buying securities. The complaint is brought by individual…

Interesting Fifth Circuit Denial of Qualified Immunity to Police Officers

reason.com From Hughes v. Few, decided yesterday by Judge Andrew Oldham, joined by Judges E. Grady Jolly and Kurt Engelhardt; for the details, read the opinion itself: For those who…

Hope Hicks' testimony paired facts with emotion to connect the dots for the jury

msnbc.com When Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel in 2017, many saw it as a healthy sign of adherence to the rule of law in this country — a sign that Donald Trump was…

MSNBC Host Asks Mary Trump For Advice On Biden Beating Trump: ‘Hammering Away On His Weaknesses’

mediaite.com MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked The Mary Trump Show podcast host and strident Trump critic Mary Trump what advice she has for President Joe Biden on defeating ex-President…

Bill Maher Rips Merrick Garland for ‘Bending Over Backwards’ to Help Trump: ‘We Needed a Pitbull, We Got a Purse Dog’

thewrap.com Bill Maher dedicated the “New Rules” segment of the latest episode of “Real Time” to a tangible, and as he described it, infuriating political problem: Attorney General…

The perverse irony at the bottom of Trump’s new selective prosecution argument

msnbc.com It’s hard to think of a famous Supreme Court plaintiff with whom former President Donald Trump has less in common than Lee Yick, a Chinese immigrant who was convicted of…

Hope Hicks caps another dramatic week of testimony in hush money trial

msnbc.com Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. It was a historic week in the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president, with Donald Trump being held in…

A rising Republican lost her seat in the Trump era. Now she's trying a comeback

nbcnews.com In 2016, Kelly Ayotte was a rising star in the GOP. In 2017, she was a former senator. Now, the New Hampshire Republican is seeking to return to a different political world…

Donald Trump Has a First Amendment Right to Pay Hush Money to Support his Electoral Ambitions

reason.com Every day breathless articles appear in the New York Times, and through-out the liberal media, about Donald Trump's allegedly lawless payment of hush money to help out his…

A largely white Louisiana enclave gets the go-ahead to secede and form its own city

msnbc.com Conservatives are trying to make secession a thing again. Last week in Louisiana, the state’s Supreme Court paved the way for a largely white enclave within Baton Rouge to…

Ask Jordan: Why was the Supreme Court so focused on what-ifs in Trump's immunity claim?

msnbc.com “During the Supreme Court’s immunity arguments, a majority of the Supreme Court seemed more concerned with the future what-ifs than the here and now. Is there anything that…

Trump promises to give police 'immunity from prosecution'

reason.com Former President Donald Trump this week made his way to Wisconsin, a battleground state crucial to both his 2016 win and 2020 loss. The stakes, in other words, are high. So…

Elliott’s Coolheaded Copilot

institutionalinvestor.com Jonathan Pollock is the guy you send in to save a deal. When British-Australian mining company BHP Billiton announced in the summer of 2017 that Ken MacKenzie would become…

Trump's trial has already proven one of his most corrupt tendencies

msnbc.com Now we know what it looks like when unscrupulous members of the press collude with corrupt politicians. Through testimony and reams of text messages, New York criminal…

Team Biden targets Latino men with ad about Trump's fake toughness

msnbc.com A new ad unveiled by President Biden’s re-election campaign on Friday shows how it plans to incorporate men in the fight against restrictive anti-abortion laws and other…

"Irrevocably Shaken": Columbia Law Review Editors Ask For Cancellation Of Exams Due To Protests

zerohedge.com "Irrevocably Shaken": Columbia Law Review Editors Ask For Cancellation Of Exams Due To Protests Authored by Jonathan Turley, In recent years, there has been much discussion…

For Donald Trump, Undue Delay Is the Name of the Game

newsweek.com Americans want to know whether former President Donald Trump is a convict before they vote. But the Supreme Court, supposed to be our ultimate recourse for unbiased…

How to Protect Your Business If the Joint Employer Rule Returns

entrepreneur.com Although the expanded Joint Employer Rule appears to be dead, it could still be legally resurrected. Here's how to protect your business. Last month, the U.S. Senate…

Massachusetts High Court Upholds Ban on Picketing Within 200 Feet of Courthouse in Karen Read Murder Trial

reason.com From Spicuzza v. Commonwealth, decided yesterday by the Massachusetts High court: The petitions stemmed from the ongoing trial, in the Superior Court in Norfolk County, in…

Former government employee charged with falsely accusing co-workers of joining Capitol riot

pbs.org A former government employee has been charged with repeatedly submitting fake tips to the FBI reporting that several of his co-workers in the intelligence community were…

Are State Law Climate Change Tort Suits Preempted by Federal Law?

reason.com Honolulu, like many state and local governments around the country, is suing fossil fuel companies alleging a range of state-law torts related to climate change. The…

"Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023" (Which Just Passed the House) Could Suppress First-Amendment-Protected Criticism of Israel

reason.com HR6090, which passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a 320-91 vote, would provide, in relevant part, For purposes of this Act, the term "definition of…

The FBI Feels Comfortable Talking To Social Media Companies Again

dealbreaker.com How badly did the arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri case go for the states last month? So badly that the FBI has already re-established communications with social media…

Biden's new student-loan forgiveness plan has already received over 24,000 comments. There are 2 weeks left to give the administration input

businessinsider.com By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on…

Seth Meyers Calls Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day's Beavis and Butt-Head 'Weirdly Hot'

thewrap.com Things are weird in a lot of ways in the country right now, but for Seth Meyers, one of the weirdest things is that the stars of the animated series “Beavis and Butt-Head”…

Uber And Lyft Drivers' Future Hangs In Balance As Massachusetts Supreme Court Deliberates

benzinga.com The future of ride-share drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. UBER and Lyft Inc. LYFT in Massachusetts is uncertain as the state’s supreme court is set to hear arguments on…

The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington

vox.com Six Supreme Court justices attend President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. | Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP via Getty Images The justices are quietly quitting their day…

Arizona Senate Approves Repeal of Near-Total Abortion Ban

zerohedge.com Arizona Senate Approves Repeal of Near-Total Abortion Ban Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Arizona Capitol building in Phoenix on April 11,…

Cambodia's Supreme Court upholds the 2-year prison sentence of a casino strike leader

apnews.com PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the…

Today in Supreme Court History: May 3, 1802

reason.com 5/3/1802: Washington D.C. incorporated as the capital of the United States. Article I, Section 8 empowers Congress to "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases…

Google dubs Epic's demands from its antitrust win 'unnecessary' and 'far beyond the scope' of the verdict

techcrunch.com In a new filing, Google is pushing back against Fortnite maker Epic Games’ numerous proposed remedies after a court determined Google engaged in anticompetitive practices on…

How Texas’ online porn law could shatter a First Amendment precedent

platformer.news Today let’s talk about a somewhat surprising decision at the Supreme Court that suggests a long-settled assumption about the First Amendment may be on the verge of getting…

Analyzing the consequential Supreme Court term and its ideological divide

pbs.org The Supreme Court wrapped up oral arguments and has now turned to rolling out decisions in some of the most consequential cases of the year. Those decisions will shape…

Arizona governor signs repeal of state's 160-year-old abortion ban

newsweek.com Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, signed a bill on Thursday that will repeal the state's 160-year-old abortion ban. As reproductive rights continue to be a…

Court Won't Revisit Instagram Victory Over Photographers

mediapost.com A federal appellate court on Wednesday rejected photographers' request for a new hearing in a battle over an Instagram tool that allows outside publishers to embed images…

Arizona's Democratic governor signs a bill to repeal 1864 ban on most abortions

pbs.org Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a repeal bill Thursday. Hobbs says the move is just the…

New Article on "Brown, Democracy, and Foot Voting"

reason.com Brown v. Board of Education. (NA) This year is the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, arguably the Supreme Court's most iconic decision. The American Journal…

New York prosecutors aren't seeking jail for Trump on gag order

msnbc.com Manhattan prosecutors keep objecting to Donald Trump’s alleged gag order violations, but they still don’t want him to go to jail over them. And while that is understandable…

Donald 'Von ShitzInPantz' has now formally been entered into the public record at Trump's hush money trial

aol.com None Testimony in Donald Trump's NY trial was delayed Thursday morning by still more gag-violation arguments. • None "Everybody can say anything they want except for…

Middle school girls banned from track event over protest of trans athlete

newsweek.com Five West Virginia middle-school track athletes who protested the participation of a transgender student in a recent competition have been barred from future meets and are…

Gen Z left out of Biden's student debt relief

newsweek.com Gen Z has been largely left out of Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness options this year, and many are struggling to pay off their monthly payments as they navigate low…

Biden's latest move to protect trans health also exposes the depressing bigger picture

msnbc.com Late last week, the Biden administration announced it had finalized federal rules protecting trans people from discrimination in health care facilities. It’s the latest move…

Biden used ChatGPT for the first time. Here's how that went

aol.com None "Wow, I can't believe it could do that," he said after his first ChatGPT run, according to Wired. • None The experience also pushed Biden to sign an executive order on…

Aileen Cannon Responds to Claims She Did Not Disclose 'Luxury' Trips

newsweek.com Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case, has said she declared two "luxury" resort trips to Montana that were mentioned in a National…

Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?

economist.com IN 2013 local leaders in Grants Pass, Oregon, held a meeting to brainstorm ideas for how to tackle the city’s growing “vagrancy problem”. A record of that meeting states…

Column: California's transgender sanctuary law survives a challenge as judge ridicules plaintiff's claims

latimes.com Protesters gathered in Indianapolis last year to fight an Indiana law banning doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries to minors. In…

Why there’s yet another gag order hearing at Trump’s trial

msnbc.com Judge Juan Merchan found Donald Trump in contempt on Tuesday for nine gag order violations in his New York criminal case. The state judge imposed the maximum fine of $1,000…

How Democrats plan to turn abortion ballot wins into state-level gains

axios.com Democrats will try to leverage their success with abortion-related ballot measures in down-ballot races in November, according to a memo shared with Axios. Why it matters:…

Sex offender asks Norwegian court to declare social media a right

euronews.com The unnamed offender was sentenced last year to 13 months in prison and banned from using Snapchat for two years. A convicted sex offender is asking the court to make social…

New US climate rules for pollution cuts ‘probably terminal’ for coal-fired plants

theguardian.com New climate rules imposed by Joe Biden’s administration requiring huge cuts in carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants will accelerate the decline of an industry that…

Missed Out On the Run-Up in Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Here's the Next Big Trend Investors Need to Know About -- and One Stock to Buy and Hold Forever

finance.yahoo.com Trends can be easy to miss. After all, many people heard about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it was the "next big thing," and yet, many of those same people never…

2024 split screen plays out in dueling Harris, Trump speeches

axios.com Vice President Kamala Harris slammed the "Trump abortion ban" during a speech Wednesday in Florida, while hundreds of miles away in Wisconsin, former President Trump focused…

Johnson & Johnson Proposes $6.5 Billion in New Talc Settlement Offer

nytimes.com Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday that it would ask tens of thousands of people suing the company over claims that its talcum powder products caused their cancer to…