For more than two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a long series of wins for plaintiffs seeking to protect their religious practices. On June 23, 2026, though, the majority delivered an uncommon defeat in this contentious area.Landor v. Louisiana Department of Public Education and Safety, a 6-3…
Salon reports the specter of Jeffrey Epstein appears to be looming over the Republican Party as the GOP struggles to maintain it’s delicate House and Senate majorities.Republicans have seized on Epstein’s ties to Democratic figures like former President Bill Clinton, but it appears that Epstein ling…
A president, by Constitutional design, has no legal authority or direct role in administering, altering, or conducting elections. Authority over the mechanics of elections is legally split between state governments and Congress, leaving no constitutional role for the executive branch.That did not st…
Dispatch writer Nick Catoggio appears to be feeling more venom than usual. On Friday Catoggio lit into the no-explanations secrecy with which President Donald Trump and his lieutenants conduct business, particularly the quick removal of four-star Gen. Chris Donahue.Donohue was the top Army commander…
MAGA influencer and podcaster Tucker Carlson was happy to laud the hard feelings between President Donald Trump’s digital media manager Alex Bruesewitz and ultra conservative columnist and Fox News pundit Mark Levin on his Friday podcast.In addition to discussions topics about how hard the nation ap…
The Boston Globe reports Two Republican candidates for statewide office, including the state party’s de facto nominee for attorney general, won’t appear on the September primary ballot after the commission that oversees ballots took issue with hundreds of nomination signatures they submitted.The res…
Former Republican and current Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller showed no mercy to MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly after her attack on Haitians this week.“I think you’re kind of nice to Megyn Kelly there because what Megyn Kelly is doing is she’s being a rancid b——,” Miller said on his Friday afternoon Bulwar…
It was an ad campaign designed to sink an American legend with Trump-style accusations, but the legend appears to have endured.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports American motorcycle company Harley Davidson has weathered a hateful ad campaign by competing cycle company Indian Motorcycle.“The atta…
MS NOW analyst Steve Benen says House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped an unexpectedly corruption-friendly reason for protecting the House’s GOP majority against its near inevitable collapse in the November midterms.“If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an …
Former Hill writer Jason Easley reports President Donald Trump exposed every bit of respect he still has for the evangelical wing of the Republican Party, which helped put him back in the White House in 2024.“America finally got to see what Trump really thinks of his evangelical supporters at the Wh…