“Justice Thomas’ alleged actions don’t just appear corrupt, they are corrupt,” said Rep. Ted Lieu. Several House Democrats on Thursday pushed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to immediately resign after the investigative outlet ProPublica revealed fresh details about the powerful judge’s billionaire-funded—and undisclosed—luxury vacations. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that Thomas’ […]
U.S. Justice Department prosecutors on Thursday asked for a January 2, 2024, start date for the trial of the criminal case against former President Donald Trump accusing him of illegally conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. In a filing with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, the office of […]
By admitting border agents would have to make their own “judgements” to determine whether to shoot a migrant, said one critic, the Florida governor signaled he would embrace “the large-scale murder of innocent people.” Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday night expanded on his proposed border policy, which he has said would include […]
“Anyone surprised by this, at this point, can only be a willful denier of what Black people have said—and continue to say—about the broken culture of policing in America.” Six former Mississippi sheriff’s deputies from a self-described “Goon Squad” pleaded guilty Thursday to subjecting two Black men to racialized torture and shooting one of the […]
