Alina Habba’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Court

Trump lawyer Alina Habba was reprimanded a whopping 12 times during the former president’s defamation trial on Thursday for her combative and bizarre behavior. Presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan has already ruled that Donald Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll after she Continue reading Alina Habba’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Court

The Supreme Court Sounds Eager to Break the Government for Good

“Textualism means you are governed by the text,” the doctrine’s chief proponent, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, explained in 2012. “Not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that.” To Scalia, the legislative Continue reading The Supreme Court Sounds Eager to Break the Government for Good

Good News! You May Be Able to Watch a Judge Say “Guilty” to Trump in Real Time

The 20 Republican representatives who voted against Jordan are Don Bacon, Ken Buck, Lori Chavez-DeRember, Anthony D’Esposito, Mario Diaz Balart, Jake Ellzey, Andrew Garbarino, Kay Granger, Carlos Giminez, Vicente Gonzales, John James, Doug LaMalfa, Mike Lawler, Mike Kelly, Jen Kiggans, Continue reading Good News! You May Be Able to Watch a Judge Say “Guilty” to Trump in Real Time

Someone Hacked Trump Jr.’s Twitter Account—and the Tweets Are So Good

He also flew to Mar-a-Lago to beg Trump to pay him for working as Trump’s personal attorney. That didn’t work, but Trump did agree to host a fundraiser dinner for Giuliani. Entry cost $100,000 a plate, but Giuliani paid Costello Continue reading Someone Hacked Trump Jr.’s Twitter Account—and the Tweets Are So Good

The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.

Montana’s ban shares a key feature with many of the other states’ bans targeting drag: It is written in broad, vague language seemingly designed to produce a chilling effect, encouraging people to enforce the law based not on its contents Continue reading The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.