The Supreme Court’s New LGBTQ Cases Could Demolish Sex Discrimination Law As We Know It

On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination against LGBTQ...

The Mueller Report Makes It Clear: Trump Is Off the Hook in SDNY as Well

Since the announcement of special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision to not indict President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice or any members...

The Failures of Rod Rosenstein

This is hardly the most important thing about the Mueller report, but I thought it might be worthy of a short note, if only to fill out the...

Stephen Moore, Trump’s Pick for Fed, Once Wrote Multiple Columns Complaining About Women Participating in Sports

An economic commentator whom President Trump has picked to fill one of the two open seats on the Federal Reserve Board wrote multiple columns in...

There Are a Few Swing States Where Elizabeth Warren Might Want to Mention That She Used to Be a Reaganomics-Believing Republican

On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced a plan to provide free public college and cancel a large portion of...

The Political Case for Impeachment

In the wake of the Mueller report, you’ve probably heard the legal argument for starting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump....

The Angle: Will John Roberts Save Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Laws?

On the basis of sex: The Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case about whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment...

Americans Should Be Grateful to Mueller for His Decision Not to Accuse Trump of a Crime

Now that the dust has settled and people have had a chance to sift through the 448 pages of facts and evidence contained in the Mueller report—or...

What Are House Democratic Leaders So Scared Of?

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What Does “Accountability” Mean to House Democratic Leaders?

For the indefinite future, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be managing Democrats’ unenviable task of aggressively pursuing as much information...

Former Lakers Coach Luke Walton Reportedly Sued Over Alleged Sexual Assault

A female sports reporter is suing new Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton for sexual assault, according to TMZ. The site reports that journalist...

Where Were You When You Learned Elizabeth Warren Was a Game of Thrones Fan?

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Pelosi Tells Divided Democrats Investigations Are Next Step Post-Mueller Report, Not Impeachment

The public release of the Mueller report last Thursday has Democrats talking impeachment again after the possibility of ousting Trump from office...

The Census Case Is a Test of Whether the Truth Still Matters at the Supreme Court

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Department of Commerce v. New York, a challenge to the Trump administration’s addition of a...

Congress Subpoenas Don McGahn to Testify, and Judging by the Mueller Report He Has a Lot to Say

The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for former White House counsel Don McGahn Monday, the first to be issued post-Mueller report to the...

Mueller Clearly Thinks Trump Could Be Charged Once He’s Out of Office

After special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was released last week, it received praise not only as a work of law but as literary yarn. As Laura...

Comedian Known for Playing President on TV Easily Wins Ukraine’s Presidential Election

A comedian with no hint of political experience besides playing a president on television easily won Ukraine’s presidential election. Exit polls...

Key Democrats Say Impeachment Is a Possibility, But Far From Certain

Speaking on the Sunday talk show circuit, key Democrats refused to be pinned down one way or another when it came to the question of whether they...

Schiff on Mueller Report: “In Every Way This Is More Significant Than Watergate”

Rep. Adam Schiff, the head of the House Intelligence Committee, pushed back against suggestions that the findings in special counsel Robert...

Florida Officer Under Investigation After Video Shows Him Punching, Slamming Black Teen’s Head Into Ground

A Broward County sheriff’s deputy has been placed on “restrictive administrative assignment” as outrage grew over the weekend about a video that...

Michael Avenatti Accused of Pocketing Nearly $2 Million NBA Star Paid to Ex-Girlfriend in Settlement

When Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside wired $2.75 million to celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti in January 2017 it was supposed to cover most of...

Trump Tweet Claiming Millions Killed in Sri Lanka Bombings Stays Up for 20 Minutes

President Donald Trump Sent a tweet Sunday morning expressing condolences for the bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more...

Giuliani: “There’s Nothing Wrong With Taking Information From Russians”

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani pushed the message Sunday that there was nothing inherently wrong with a political...

North Carolina Man Accused of Shooting Two Children in Road Rage Incident

A man in North Carolina has been arrested after he allegedly shot two children as part of a road rage incident involving their father. Byron...

Blasts at Churches and Hotels in Sri Lanka Kill More Than 200 on Easter Sunday

Bombs struck three churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday and three luxury hotels popular with foreign tourists, killing at least 207 people and...

Immigrants Can Be Denied Citizenship for Working in Legal Marijuana Industry

Green-card holders may want to think twice about celebrating 4/20 too publicly this year. That is because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...

Two Teenagers Arrested in Killing of Lyra McKee, Prominent Northern Ireland Journalist

Two teenage men have been arrested in the connection to the murder of 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee. The men—aged 18 and 19—were arrested...

White House Releases Photo of Trump, Limbaugh Golfing as President Tweets Mueller Frustrations

The White House usually doesn’t release any information about President Donald Trump’s golf games. But over the Easter weekend, it not only gave...

So Is Impeachment Plausible, Necessary, or Stupid?

On Thursday, the Department of Justice released a  redacted version of the Mueller report  to Congress and the public. Since then, what had been...

FBI Arrests Head of Armed Militia Group That Was Detaining Migrants at Border

The FBI arrested on Saturday the head of a right-wing militia that had been detaining migrant families at gunpoint. Law enforcement officers...

Vermont Likely to Become Third State to Officially Scrap Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Columbus Day is likely to be a thing of the past in Vermont in the near future. The Vermont Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would...

Hope Hicks Says Hope Hicks Was Great at Her Job. Should We Trust Her?

Hope Hicks has long been one of Trump World’s greatest mysteries. She had never so much as volunteered for a political candidate when Donald...

House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Full and Unredacted Mueller Report

The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for the full and unredacted version of the Mueller report, including grand jury material and other...

There Might Be More Mueller-Related Prosecutions After All

On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of the Mueller report. As previewed by Barr, the report did not recommend a...

Why Elizabeth Warren Wants the House to Start Impeachment Proceedings Against Trump

Elizabeth Warren on Friday became the first major presidential contender to call for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President...

Why Robert Mueller Cited Antonin Scalia to Prove Trump’s Official Acts Might Have Been Obstruction

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s assessment of Donald Trump’s efforts to obstruct justice hinged in part on one key question: whether the...

A Right-Wing Militia Has Allegedly Been Holding Migrant Families at Gunpoint After They Cross the Border

A right-wing militia has been confronting groups of migrant families at the Southern U.S. border and holding them at gunpoint in what has been...

This Week in Brexit: Who Wants to Be Prime Minister?

With the pace of Brexit news slowing a bit after last week’s extension, we’re rebranding Today in Brexit as This Week in Brexit. Previous posts...

Mueller’s Biographer Deciphers the Special Counsel’s Report

In a recent episode of The Gist , Mike Pesca spoke with Garrett Graff, author of The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller’s FBI and the War on...

What Congress Should Clearly Do Next With the Mueller Report

The Mueller Report Is an Irrefutable Case That Trump Is Unfit for Office

This article first appeared on the blog Impeachable Offenses? This is how it’s done. In the endless, degrading cacophony of the Trump era, in...

Is Joe Biden Better in Theory or Practice? The Answer Could Decide the 2020 Race.

Joe Biden has finally made up his mind and is ready to share it with the world. So says the Atlantic, which reported Friday that the former vice...

The International Hilarity of Loyiso Gola

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The Angle: Mueller Gave Us the Report. Now What Are We Going to Do About It?

One step closer: Now that we have the Mueller report—and with it, proof that President Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice—what comes next...

Sarah Sanders Tries to Walk Back Her Admission to Mueller That She Lied About Comey

In a contentious interview Friday on Good Morning America, Sarah Huckabee Sanders vehemently denied admitting to Robert Mueller’s team that she...

The Clearest Case of Trump’s Corruption in the Mueller Report

In his report on the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller concludes that President Donald Trump and his associates shouldn’t be...

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Future Tense Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. Welcome to Slate’s weekly news quiz. It’s Friday, which means...

Don McGahn Not Listening to Donald Trump Doesn’t Absolve the President of a Crime

When it comes to obstruction of justice, did the president’s team really “save him from himself” as some analysts have put it? Since...

The Other Thing the Mueller Report Proved: Journalists Were Right

From the dawn of his presidential campaign, and especially since Robert Mueller was named special counsel, President Donald Trump has waged war on...

Donald Trump’s Defense Against Obstruction Charges Is That People Didn’t Do What He Told Them to Do

On a special Thursday episode of Amicus, Slate’s podcast about the Supreme Court, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Jed Shugerman, a professor of law...

Why Robert Mueller Documented Trump’s Lies So Meticulously

While special counsel Robert Mueller declined to offer a traditional prosecution or declination decision on the question of whether President...

A Mueller Report Next-Day Debrief

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William Barr Gave Trump the Kavanaugh Defense

According to the attorney general of the United States, we Americans should be thanking President Donald J. Trump—who admitted on national...

Mueller Made a Case. But He’s Letting Congress Prosecute It.

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Robert Mueller Gave Us Everything We Need to Know

It has been said that there are two types of fiction writers, those who can show us entirely new worlds and those who tell us again what we already...

The Mueller Report Is a Portrait of an Egomaniac Who Nobody Likes

Donald Trump has committed so many brazen acts of cruelty, dishonesty, and stupidity in full view of the public that it’s not really a surprise...

How “Disgraceful” Was Barr’s Press Conference? Let a Former DOJ Spokesman Explain.

On a special Thursday episode of Amicus, Slate’s podcast about the Supreme Court, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Matthew Miller, former director of...

William Barr Must Resign

In no small part because of the performance on Thursday of Attorney General William Barr, history will treat his Justice Department as it treats...

The Angle: What We’ve Learned From the Mueller Report

The wait is over: We have the Mueller report now—at least, the unredacted parts of it. And we’ve learned, among other things, that Trump said...

A Line-By-Line Look At the Discrepancies Between the Mueller Report and Barr’s Summary of It

Reporters and other interested parties are still reading through the 448-page Mueller report for new and revelatory information, but one thing was...

The Most Deeply Strange Details in the Mueller Report

As a document that seeks to answer the question of whether a sitting president coordinated with a foreign government to interfere with the 2016...

Fox News’ Shepard Smith Delivered the Best Burn I Heard All Day

Before 30 seconds had passed during Thursday’s episode of Shepard Smith Reporting, the host had said what most of his Fox News colleagues had...

Everything You Should Know About the Mueller Report

The Mueller report released Thursday morning brought with it an avalanche of details about Donald Trump and Co.’s conduct on the campaign trail and...

Trump’s Response to the Mueller Report Dropping Has Basically Been to Tweet Out Fox News Quotes

In between committing crimes* and posting videos about how he didn’t commit crimes, President Trump has basically relied on the Fox News Defense™...

Is Mueller Suggesting Trump Should Be Impeached?

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Thanks to Mueller, Democratic Leadership Has a Clear Path to the One Thing It Doesn’t Want

Robert Mueller’s report, which details 10 potential instances of obstruction of justice by Donald Trump, is unsurprisingly meatier than Attorney...

What the Mueller Report Says About James Comey’s Firing

President Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey was a pivotal moment for his presidency. The move, coming as the FBI looked...

Robert Mueller’s Message to Congress

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Is the Mueller Report Damning Enough to Be the Centerpiece of a 2020 Campaign?

Robert Mueller’s report is far more damning than President Donald Trump and his allies would have the American public believe. The special...

Mueller Report: Trump Repeatedly Asked Campaign Associates to Find Clinton’s Deleted Emails

During a press conference in Florida on July 17, 2016, Donald Trump asked for some help finding emails that Hillary Clinton had supposedly deleted...

Robert Mueller’s Biographer Sees a Bombshell On (Nearly) Every Page of the Redacted Mueller Report

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