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Democrats call legal push amid coronavirus crisis an ‘act of unfathomable cruelty’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The supreme court building in Washington DC. The Affordable Care Act is likely to be a key political battleground in the forthcoming presidential election. Photograph: AFP/Getty The Trump administration has asked the US supreme […] More
Trump’s Berman-SDNY disaster suggests William Barr is not so smart after all Lloyd Green The attorney general lied about the US attorney from New York, had to fire him, and landed the president with a big problem William Barr listens to Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/EPA Maybe […] More
The federal government program created in 2012 protects more than 650,000 undocumented immigrants in the US Demonstrators rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The supreme court has blocked Donald Trump’s bid to end the so-called Daca program that allowed more than 650,000 undocumented immigrants, who were brought to the US […] More
Stuart Kyle Duncan: the Trump-appointed judge working to ban Louisiana abortions The ultra-conservative fifth circuit court judge repeatedly upheld the ban in Texas and could result in clinic closures across Louisiana Activists supporting legal access to abortion protest outside the US Supreme Court. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images A landmark US Supreme Court ruling […] More
Donald Trump attempted to solidify his bond with the US army on Saturday, delivering the graduation speech to cadets at the United States Military Academy and boasting of a “colossal” $2tn rebuilding of American martial might. Trump’s West Point speech was studiously vapid, with only a modicum of partisan boasting. But the political setting crackled […] More
George Floyd The legislation would ban chokeholds by police, set up a national database for tracking police misconduct and would bar types of ‘no-knock’ warrants George Floyd killing – latest US updates Play Video 1:26 George Floyd tribute: Democrats take a knee for almost 9 minutes – video Democrats in Congress have unveiled a sweeping […] More
Eric Cervini’s story of one man’s struggle touches on many others and leaves the reader wanting 500 pages more Frank Kameny picketing in a still from a documentary, The Lavender Scare. Photograph: PBS Trained at Harvard and Cambridge, Eric Cervini is an LGBTQ historian. His debut, subtitled The Homosexual vs the United States of America, falls […] More
Protesters were forcefully removed from a park near the White House before Trump walked to a nearby church to take a photo Protestors run as riot police fire teargas to clear Lafayette Park for Donald Trump to be able to walk through for a photo opportunity. Photograph: Reuters The American Civil Liberties Union and other […] More
