Новости за 06.03.2024

Donald Trump is currently facing federal charges for involvement in the January 6 riot to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. In an effort to save his own skin, Donald Trump has claimed that he, as a former president, has legal immunity for any actions committed while he was in office.

After winning a sum total of zero delegates in the Democratic Super Tuesday primaries, Dean Phillips has called it quits on his long-shot bid for the White House.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday voted 3-2 to finalize a rule on what companies disclose about their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change stands to impact their business. On its face, that wouldn’t seem to be much cause for alarm. Companies are already required to disclose information on their management structures, overall financial health and the kinds of risks facing their business. Large segments of the oil and gas industry, though, as well as their beneficiaries in the Republican Party... Читать дальше...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t disavowing her theory that Jewish space lasers were the cause of the California wildfires, but she definitely wants to stop being pestered about it, going so far as to tell one journalist to “fuck off” with the questions.

He took his time, but ultimately Senator Mitch McConnell has fallen in line and endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2024.

It’s always mystified me why Republicans think de-funding the Internal Revenue Service is a political winner. Granted, voters are terrified of the IRS, but to presume that means we don’t want the IRS to collect taxes from the rich—the sole cohort that isn’t terrified of the IRS—is just wrong. According to a Navigator Research poll conducted last month, 80 percent of Americans want the rich to pay higher taxes, including a 63 percent majority of Republicans and two-thirds of all Trump voters. Yet when the GOP starves the IRS for cash... Читать дальше...

Nikki Haley suffered not one but two monumental defeats this week. The obvious one came on a not-so-Super Tuesday, as Republican voters (outside of Vermont, anyway) embraced Donald Trump’s rotoscope vision for a second term, leading Haley to formally drop out of the race. But the less commented-upon but perhaps more significant pasting came at the hands of the Supreme Court—a one-two punch, really. First, the court abetted the Trump team’s wish to extend his federal trial as far into the future as possible. Читать дальше...

Super Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary on the surface went well for Joe Biden, as he was able to pick up the delegates from all 16 states.

Eight years later, Donald Trump still can’t admit that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley abandoned her long-shot bid for the White House on Wednesday. Her departure makes it official: Donald Trump owns the Republican Party.

White House leaks in advance of the State of the Union Address have telegraphed Joe Biden’s intention to stress how age and experience have made him a successful president. The crux of Biden’s argument is likely to be that his seven terms in the Senate have given him a preternatural ability to negotiate compromises like the $1 trillion infrastructure bill in 2021. He may also claim that his half-century in Washington has equipped him to understand hinge points of history like the struggle for democracy against Donald Trump in 2024. Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court left a lot of technical legalese to parse through in its unanimous ruling that Colorado cannot disqualify President Trump from appearing on the presidential ballot in accordance with Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Much of the reasoning on display is outright illogical—there are some wan appeals to handpicked “textual” bases, tethered to vaguely stated constitutional principles, all of which collide in a bizarre and unworkable solution to the original problem—but the crux... Читать дальше...

By her own estimation, the actress Naomi Watts arrived at the role of ingenue a little late. “I was already at the end of my 20s, early 30s, really, with Mulholland Drive,” she told an interviewer at Vogue in January, “which is what changed everything significantly.” In the film, she plays two halves of the same woman, and the first of these halves, Betty, is an innocent, adorable aspiring actress. Watts being older than your classic on-screen neophyte works brilliantly, both because her age enhances... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court released its 13-page decision in Trump v. Anderson on Monday. In their ruling, which is 9–0 for some parts and 5–4 for others, the justices effectively nullified the Fourteenth Amendment’s disqualification clause for insurrectionists as a meaningful factor in American politics. Congress could theoretically revive the clause by passing a law to enforce it, the majority noted. They know full well that Congress is more likely to declare me the archduke of Nevada.

Earlier this week, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico signed a handful of gun control bills in the face of a terrible spate of gun violence in her state that has drawn national attention. Lujan Grisham is smack in the middle of some big trends in our politics right now: the transformation of the southwest, the success of Democrats in border states, and the rise of the female Democratic governor in the era of Donald Trump. We chatted with Lujan Grisham about all these things—and a whole lot more. Читать дальше...

Senator Bob Menedez’s charges just keep adding up.

A new superseding federal indictment on Tuesday charges the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey and his wife, Nadine, with obstruction of justice, adding to previous indictments alleging the couple accepted bribes in exchange for using Menendez’s political position to benefit the governments of Qatar and Egypt.

It’s not the first Qatar-related indictment for Menendez. A superseding indictment in January already accused... Читать дальше...

After losing the second defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, Donald Trump has a new demand for Judge Lewis Kaplan: Reduce the $83.3 million penalty, or do the whole trial over again.

A 1,439-page document dump from a settlement involving Donald Trump ally Kenneth Chesebro reveals the inner machinations of the so-called architect of Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme.