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Democrats had a chance to stop this crackdown on press freedom before it happened
Judge in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case issues a wake up call for America
What Americans should do if the president invokes the Insurrection Act
Why Americans should Be troubled that the Trump administration wants Luigi Mangione dead
Seizure of Tufts University student shows the First Amendment is the first casualty
Trump’s new executive order is just the latest salvo in his campaign to change what it means to be American
The right's newest conspiracy theory is all about Trump's unending desire to relitigate past losses
A death row inmate in South Carolina chose firing squad over lethal injection and the electric chair.
All presidents should expect to be sued early and often by state attorneys general of the opposite party.
The confrontation between Trump, Vance, and Volodymy Zelenskyy hurts Ukraine and helps the American president
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Trump wants to ramp up the federal death penalty. Before he left, the former attorney general made that harder
Joe Biden breaks with tradition to offer a direct criticism of his successor
Mark Zuckerberg’s gaslighting about Meta’s shameful decision to end fact-checking is still very dangerous
The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds crazy, but they are not the tirst to do it
Last Friday, New York Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money trial, refused to quash the indictment and set aside the jury...
If democracy dies in this country, it can be blamed on people who did not bother to vote last November. During the 2024 presidential campaign,...
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With President Joe Biden’s term winding down, the subject of clemency has heated up. Biden now finds himself in a bind familiar to many of his...
Leo Correa|AP Syrians wave flags during a celebration in Damascus on Dec. 13 following Bashar Assad's ouster. The demise of the Bashar Assad regime...
Last Thursday, the White House announced that President Biden was “granting clemency to nearly 1,500 Americans – the most ever in a single day.”...
Last Wednesday, Donald Trump announced the appointment of Peter Navarro as a senior counselor for trade and manufacturing during the second Trump...
Donald Trump has moved at warp speed to nominate people to serve in his Cabinet and other important government posts who have chosen loyalty to...
In the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, opponents of the death penalty are mounting a campaign to convince President Biden to commute...
MSNBC's “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski violated some of the cardinal rules of journalism. Journalists, so those maxims...
Tweet Share Share Comment Two Texas death cases made headlines last week; both involved a parent who was convicted of killing their 2-year old...
The 2024 election has installed a regime of one-party government in Washington. Come Jan. 20, the presidency, the Senate, and the House of...
Tweet Share Share Comment There are 40 men on federal death row who have been convicted of capital offenses by the federal government going back as...
Tweet Share Share Comment Robert Roberson, who was wrongfully convicted of a capital crime, was due to die on Thursday at 6 p.m. He is alive today...
Appearing on CNN on Monday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin found himself in an uncomfortable situation. Host Jake Tapper asked the governor...
Though crime and criminal justice policy are central issues in many elections, that’s not true in 2024. Surveys show that relatively few American...
Ever since Donald Trump arrived on the national political scene in 2015, he has displayed a perplexing and troubling attitude toward freedom of...
Donald Trump made a hero’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the July 13 attempt on his life. In what has been widely lauded as an...
Jack Smith’s latest filing in the election interference case against Donald Trump contains explosive reminders and bombshell revelations about the...
Tweet Share Share Comment This week is shaping up to be a very bad one for death penalty opponents in the United States. If all goes according to...
Since he was appointed Supreme Court chief justice by George W. Bush in 2005, John Roberts has been something of an enigma. He initially tried to...
Tweet Share Share Comment The state of Idaho tried to kill Thomas Creech once. It failed. It now wants a second chance. Last week, a state judge...
This is the second of a two-part series on tonight's first, and so far only scheduled, debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former...
What a difference four years make. In 2020 the Democratic Party took an aggressively anti-death penalty position . Not so this year. In 2020 Joe...
Tweet Share Share Comment Carrying out an execution is always a complicated business that takes a horrible toll on anyone who is associated with...