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Pack the Supreme Court
There is a perfectly legal and viable solution to all this: Pack the Supreme Court. Pack it as soon as possible.
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Supreme Privilege
“Our Silence Will Serve No One” — Alumni of Brett Kavanaugh's High School Urge Graduates to Share Information About Sexual Assaults
Georgetown Prep graduates, in a petition of support for Christine Blasey Ford, call for others to provide information on Brett Kavanaugh.
The War on Immigrants
ICE Defied a Court Order in Vendetta Against Deportee
Danny Michel was wrongfully deported in 2016. After fighting for two years to return, ICE defied a court order and detained him.
Supreme Privilege
The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh’s choice to lie about things that are easily disproved speaks to a kind of hubris, or entitlement, that’s fitting to someone of his pedigree.
Supreme Privilege
Key Moments in the Senate Testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh
Highlights from the testimony of Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington.
NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Was Held in Isolation for a Week and No One Has Explained Why
During her transfer to a federal prison, NSA whistleblower Reality Winner was held in isolation in a Florida jail for a week.
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Trump’s Plan to Deny Green Cards to People on Medicaid or Food Stamps Is a Full-Blown Attack on the Immigrant Poor
Trump is creating an impossible choice between getting help and legal residency — his administration's latest tool of ethnic cleansing.
Trump Gets 100 Countries to Sign On to His U.N. Drug War Plan, Ignoring Changing Thinking on Human Rights and Legalization
Some brutal regimes with draconian drug policies signed on — and a few allies balked at the Trump administration's retrograde drug war push.
An Untold Number of Indigenous Children Disappeared at U.S. Boarding Schools. Tribal Nations Are Raising the Stakes in Search of Answers.
Tribal nations have turned to the U.N. in an effort to obtain a full accounting of those who went missing at schools like the Carlisle Indian School.
Accused Torturer Jon Burge Died Last Week, but His Legacy of Brutal, Racist Policing Lives on in Chicago
Jon Burge's torture was a particularly morbid symptom of a much larger problem of racism and brutality among Chicago cops.