https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qrkl5m-ZxR0 Dahlia Lithwick (YouTube). If the good Lord’s willing, the creeks don’t rise and I live up to my good intentions, I think I’ve found a new project. Or maybe the project found me! It comes in the unlikely form of a somewhat wonky Supreme Court watchers’ podcast called Amicus (legalese for amicus curiae, a … Continue reading Will Trump get a ‘boop on the nose’ from the courts like King John did with Magna Carta? A new podcast weighs the issues
‘A harvest, crop of things sown’: White nationalist violence brings back memories of civil rights backlash, prize-winning editorial in The Atlanta Constitution
President Trump checked all the right boxes – well, some of the right boxes – after a self-identified white nationalist allegedly shot 22 people to death in El Paso to persuade “the Hispanic population … to return to their home countries.” Ignoring any echoes of his own earlier Twitterstorms urging migrants and "American-born congresswomen of … Continue reading ‘A harvest, crop of things sown’: White nationalist violence brings back memories of civil rights backlash, prize-winning editorial in The Atlanta Constitution
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