Новости за 21.03.2024

Michigan lawyer Stefanie Lambert unsuccessfully tried to challenge the 2020 election results in court. Now she’s appearing before a judge in another capacity.

Donald Trump has just days left to post the nearly half-billion-dollar bond in his New York civil fraud case before the state attorney general can start seizing his assets, and Letitia James seems to know exactly where she wants to start: Westchester.

While progressive politicians and unions are fighting to grant Americans four-day workweeks, Republicans are looking to achieve the complete opposite.

A House Republican has finally admitted that it’s time to pack up the effort to impeach Joe Biden and move on.

The Manhattan district attorney has decided that the 100,000-page document dump that delayed Donald Trump’s hush-money trial by a handful of weeks is, actually, a gigantic nothingburger.

House Republicans have released their proposed budget for 2025, and it includes giving rights to embryos—despite the GOP’s big statements about how much they support in vitro fertilization.

Judge Aileen Cannon has been moving alarmingly slowly in setting up a trial date for Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case—but it may not be a bid to help out the man who appointed her.

Donald Trump hasn’t ruled out being bought by foreign powers—according to his legal team.

It turns out that Donald Trump’s millions of dollars worth of legal bills aren’t the only financial struggles on his mind. The former president has raised just a fraction of the money that his opponent has on the campaign trail.

For much of the last week, Elon Musk’s mighty Twitter feed—sorry, his X feed—featured as its pinned tweet a video that purports to lay bare a vast conspiracy among Democrats to “flood” the country with “illegals” to lock in a “permanent voting majority.” Many people have picked apart the video’s numerous lies. It is a strikingly crafted piece of “great replacement theory” propaganda, and it illustrates the growing sophistication of far-right information spaces.

“Our goal is nothing less than the reinvention of the science fiction television series.” This is the opening line of one of my favorite documents of twenty-first-century television: the series bible that Ronald D. Moore wrote for his 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica. A reference guide for details about characters and plot arcs, the BSG bible also lays out the show’s visual style, with its signature use of handheld cameras, practical lighting, and extended takes. It stipulates that every visual... Читать дальше...

For a few hours on Tuesday night, the state of Texas had its own immigration system. The Supreme Court declined to block Senate Bill 4, the state’s controversial new immigration law, from going into effect for procedural reasons. After some chiding by the justices, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals then eventually lifted its order that allowed the law to take effect.

The headlines from Texas’s primary election earlier this month did not seem to hold much in the way of banner news for progressives. Representative Colin Allred won the dubious privilege of being the latest Democratic hopeful to bang his head against the iron wall of Ted Cruz’s incumbency; like Beto O’Rourke, he will likely raise Democrats’ hopes and money in equal supply even as Cruz barely deigns to campaign and wins anyway. Beyond that, well, this is not supposed to be a surprise: Texas is full of right-wing Republicans, no? Читать дальше...

Donald Trump just announced that he’s likely to campaign for the presidency on a promise of a 15-week abortion ban, even as political commentators are wondering whether reproductive rights will be as salient this fall as they were in 2022 and 2023. An interesting test looms in Alabama, where Marilyn Lands is running for a state House seat in a special election set for March 26th—a campaign that Lands has made about her own agonizing abortion story. We talked to Lands about what she’s hearing on... Читать дальше...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tore into Tony Bobulinski during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, pressing conservatives’ so-called “deadly witness” on his ability to point to any illegal activity conducted by President Joe Biden—and in doing so, urging Republicans to admit that the whole proceeding was “based on false charges.”