Politics

“I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if for some reason we didn’t sustain the governor’s veto by one vote.”

With the help of a who’s who of conservative activists, the Supreme Court justice’s wife aims to open up a new front in America’s political wars.

Hannah Arendt noted that if a leader lies all the time, “nobody believes anything any longer. ... You can then do what you please.”

In 2015, Boris Johnson denounced Trump for “quite stupefying ignorance” that made him “unfit to hold the office of president of the United States.”

“The Israelis are kind of like cowboys,” said Texas’ agriculture commissioner. “They’re tough and gritty and they don’t take any shit from anybody.”

In an audio recording obtained by The Intercept and Documented, State Policy Network leaders emphasized their plans to weaken home care workers' unions.

“It’ll divide the country, energize Trump's base — and anyway, he’ll never be convicted in the Senate!” Rebutting the arguments against impeachment.

“Companies working hand-in-glove with conservative politicians to defeat unions is becoming the new normal in the South.”

She wasn’t yet the target of conservative hate-thirst, and up until two months before I met her, she was still going by “Sandy” and working at a bar.

“When you look at the interest for this in red, blue, and purple states, that is a great mandate for the federal government to do something.”