By Mark Berman* – The Washington Post The footage has played multiple times inside the downtown Minneapolis courtroom where Derek Chauvin is on trial for murder, showing George Floyd, a Black man, gasping for air under the White police officer’s knee. That video is the… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been cleared to run for office again after a judge annulled all convictions against him. Three years ago, Lula, a former union leader who served… Continue Reading
By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal (*) – Boston Review If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions. We live in an era of intersecting crises—some… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Guests: Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation magazine. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has authorized a 9/11-style commission to further investigate the January 6 insurrection and the actions that led up… Continue Reading
By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback (*) – Independent Media Institute While the majority of Americans deplored the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, it was troubling to see a YouGov poll indicating that one in five voters approved of… Continue Reading
Tom McCarthy* – The Guardian Each US president has charted a unique course after leaving the White House, taking up vocations from philanthropy to human rights to oil painting. Donald Trump’s post-presidency appears likely to be taken up by meetings… Continue Reading
By Lloyd Green* – The Guardian As a procedural certification has become a coup attempt, Trump and his allies have done lasting harm Democracy in the US teeters on the edge of a figurative sword. On Wednesday, the US Congress… Continue Reading
By Quint Forgey* – POLITICO Legal experts and lawmakers have expressed alarm at the president’s conversation with Georgia’s secretary of state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into… Continue Reading
Opinion by Daniel R. Alonso* – CNN President Donald Trump announced a wave of pardons on Tuesday for people ranging from Republican allies to two men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Meanwhile, speculation grows about whether… Continue Reading
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield* – Naked Capitalism With the countdown to January 20, 2021 proceeding apace, we’ve reached one of the seamier windows familiar to veteran observers of U.S. politics. Who will Trump pardon? Aside from whether he might pardon himself… Continue Reading
Editorial Clemency is a noble quality, but in Donald Trump’s hands it risks being a self-serving abuse of law and due process A US president’s power to pardon and commute sentences for federal offences seems to explode America’s claims as… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Centuries ago, Christendom was accustomed to the periodic existence of “antipopes.” They were clerics who, whether through spiritual conviction or political machinations, challenged the designated pontiff with rival claims to the top seat in the… Continue Reading
The Economist The president is back after being hospitalised with the virus. But the pandemic may weaken the Republicans’ push to confirm Amy Coney Barrett PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP returned to the White House in triumphant mood on the evening of… Continue Reading
By Emma Brockes* – The Guardian Mitt Romney and his ilk were once critics of the president. But now, when it suits them, they’re backing him again One unlikely effect of Donald Trump being in office has been a rise… Continue Reading
Editorial Republicans are rushing to appoint a conservative replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The stakes have rarely been higher Ruth Bader Ginsburg won love and admiration not only as a champion of equality, but through the brilliance of her ability… Continue Reading
By Kate Levine, Joanna Schwartz (*) – Boston Review In order to achieve lasting change, we must focus on systemic problems across the criminal justice system. That includes holding prosecutors accountable, not just police. In the wake of George Floyd’s… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) Guests : Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney, activist, founder of the Racial Justice Network and former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. After more than a week of nationwide protests,… Continue Reading
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells* – The New Yorker I lived in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests in April, 2015. My apartment was in a brownstone next to a small park in a pretty neighborhood called Bolton Hill, which sits on… Continue Reading
By Gregg Gonsalves* – The Nation Just because President Trump will do nothing doesn’t mean we won’t keep asking What’s going on in the United States? Across the country, all states have begun to reopen, some more quickly, some more… Continue Reading
The Economist Brazil’s justice minister storms out, calling the president a scofflaw ON APRIL 19TH Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, climbed onto a lorry outside army headquarters in Brasília to fire up protesters who were calling for a shutdown of Congress… Continue Reading
