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The president is trying to find a workaround to Biden's commutations — and the double jeopardy clause
The president's retrograde National Security Strategy emphasizes profit and bluster at democracy's expense
Trump demanded "11,000 votes" to change Georgia's election results. To pretend otherwise whitewashes history
Is the ability to get away with murder the true measure of political power?
Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed 15 death warrants this year in the state with the second-largest death row population.
Just like with Roe v. Wade, opponents of marriage equality are playing a long game
Florida leads the nation in executions in a year that has seen an increase in the number of inmates put to death nationwide.
Opposing Donald Trump is not enough for No Kings to be truly successful
Think the death penalty is for the “worst of the worst"? These cases will change your mind.
What happened to the FCC chairman is happening to America
Like Paul Revere before him, Judge Charles Breyer has raised the alarm about what's coming
Thanks to states' rights politicians, the institution nearly never existed in the first place
The party's winning message is staring them right in the face
I’m not ready to return to the classroom and face the bleak condition of higher education.
The 2026 midterms will not be free and fair if Trump can help it
A reckless judicial nominee who would serve Trump's agenda instead of the rule of law
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
Instead of beating the drums about yet another procedural problem, Democrats should give the president his due and change the subject.
California bar proceedings deliver another blow to election denialism
The perils of opposition party politics come back to bite
Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay for disobedience
Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay for disobedience
Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the...
The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people convicted of crimes to bring...
Democrats had a chance to stop this crackdown on press freedom before it happened
Judge in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case issues a wake up call for America
What Americans should do if the president invokes the Insurrection Act
Why Americans should Be troubled that the Trump administration wants Luigi Mangione dead
Seizure of Tufts University student shows the First Amendment is the first casualty
Trump’s new executive order is just the latest salvo in his campaign to change what it means to be American
The right's newest conspiracy theory is all about Trump's unending desire to relitigate past losses
A death row inmate in South Carolina chose firing squad over lethal injection and the electric chair.
All presidents should expect to be sued early and often by state attorneys general of the opposite party.
The confrontation between Trump, Vance, and Volodymy Zelenskyy hurts Ukraine and helps the American president
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