“Right-wing billionaires hoped an obscure legal case would blow up the tax code to avoid paying what they owe, but this effort failed,” said the Democratic senator after the Moore v. United States decision. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was among the economic justice advocates cheering Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a tax on Americans with shares of certain […]
In a sweeping act of clemency involving a drug now in widespread recreational use, Wes Moore, the governor of the U.S. state of Maryland, signed an executive order Monday pardoning 175,000 low-level marijuana convictions. Moore said the action was meant to address the injustices the state’s drug policies have had on African Americans. The pardons […]
“The next trip Justice Thomas takes should be into retirement. Resign,” wrote one Democratic lawmaker. The Senate Judiciary Committee revealed Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took at least three additional undisclosed trips on a private jet owned by Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, a finding that prompted yet another round of calls for the right-wing judge to […]
“As I’m sitting here stuck on a Brightline train because of flooding in my district, all those stormwater projects he cut look pretty stupid right now,” a Florida lawmaker said. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Wednesday for five counties due to heavy flooding in southern Florida just the day after he cut $205 million in stormwater, […]