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Ex-Trump adviser Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI Judge appointed to argue against DoJ’s motion to dismiss Michael Flynn, a retired general, was fired by Trump for lying to the vice-president about conversations with the Russian ambassador. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Fifteen Republican state attorneys general have filed a legal brief telling a federal judge […] More
Wisconsin is starting to resemble a failed state Nathan Robinson Recent decisions have both undermined the government’s legitimacy and endangered the people ‘Courts are the least democratic branch of government.’ Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA A failed state is one that can no longer claim legitimacy or perform a government’s core function of protecting the people’s basic […] More
The RNC is seeking people in 15 key states to serve as poll watchers and challenge the registration of voters they believe ineligible A man wears a mask as he walks to cast his vote. Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP Donald Trump’s campaign and national Republicans are pumping millions of dollars into efforts to restrict voting […] More
Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, the US president’s oldest sons, have attracted fierce criticism for attacking Joe Biden and Democrats in terms most observers considered beyond the pale even in America’s current toxic political climate. Trump Jr posted to Instagram a meme which baselessly insinuated that Biden, his father’s probable opponent at the polls […] More
Antisemitic and Nazi-sympathizing comments made by a Republican state representative in Alaska, who likened Covid-19 safety measures at the state capitol to the treatment of Jewish people in Nazi Germany, brought widespread rebuke and, eventually, an apology. Alaska’s legislature is due to return on Monday and representatives were told by email they would be asked […] More
Just three months ago, centrist Democrats were panicking. After strong performances in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders appeared poised to sail away with the nomination for president. Some in the party feared the self-identified democratic socialist would wreak havoc down the ballot. “If Bernie Sanders was at the top of […] More
Wisconsin supreme court ruling striking down Democratic governor’s stay-at-home order underscores division in the state People protest against the coronavirus shutdown in front of the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on 24 April 2020. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP via Getty Images A conservative majority on the Wisconsin supreme court struck down a stay-at-home order from the […] More
Trump has dubbed the brouhaha ‘the greatest political crime’ in US history despite being unable to say what it is Sean Hannity, right, with fellow Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Both have devoted considerable time to Donald Trump’s ‘Obamagate’ claims. Photograph: Brian Cahn/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock On his primetime show on Wednesday night, the Fox News host […] More
