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In Kamala Harris Trump again confronts his worst nightmare

Fans of the Broadway musical Hamilton will remember a moment late in the show when, after a series of songs about Hamilton’s personal life, one of...

22.07.2024 70

Salon

Austin Sarat

Trump’s revenge plan relies on a return to the tortured past of the George W. Bush administration

Who said there are no second acts on the American public stage?. The good fortune of Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin is a powerful...

17.07.2024 40

Salon

Austin Sarat

The Supreme Court’s immunity decision is the gift that keeps giving to Donald Trump

Another day, another miraculous escape from serious jeopardy for Donald Trump. Like a Secret Service agent shielding their protectee from danger,...

16.07.2024 10

Salon

Austin Sarat

The Supreme Court Has Never in Its History Had This Much Disdain for Precedent

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court...

02.07.2024 3

Slate

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John Roberts’ Supreme Court would have let Richard Nixon off the hook

Wherever Richard Nixon is today, I have no doubt he is smiling up at the Supreme Court. Just short of fifty years after he resigned from the...

02.07.2024 6

Salon

Austin Sarat

Connecticut May Have Figured Out a Way to Halt Executions in Texas

Tweet Share Share Comment Connecticut abolished capital punishment in April 2012. That made Connecticut the 17th state in this...

26.06.2024 4

Slate

Austin Sarat

This Democratic Governor Just Demonstrated the Right Way to Use the Pardon Power

Tweet Share Share Comment The power to grant pardons and reprieves has long been a controversial one. It lodges in chief...

21.06.2024 50

Slate

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Trump’s war on cities backfires: Attack on Milwaukee may be too far for MAGA

Donald Trump went to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with congressional Republicans. It was his first trip there since the January 6...

17.06.2024 20

Salon

Austin Sarat

The Astonishing Lengths Samuel Alito Will Go to Execute Death Row Inmates

Tweet Share Share Comment At the end of last month, the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court went out of its...

10.06.2024 10

Slate

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Trump’s Dangerous Quid Pro Quo Offer to Voters

Tweet Share Share Comment The president’s ability to grant pardons and commute sentences is a dramatic but generally quiet...

29.05.2024 10

Slate

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Red states are using the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty

Even as support for the death penalty wanes across the country, Republican governors, led by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are signing into law...

25.05.2024 20

Salon

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This Should Be a Wake-Up Call to the Biden Administration on the Death Penalty

Tweet Share Share Comment A blueprint for a second Trump term issued by conservative groups contains many alarming wake-up calls for progressives....

14.05.2024 30

Slate

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Oklahoma Judge Tells Execution Staff to “Suck It Up” After Trauma-Break Request

01.04.2024 30

Slate

Austin Sarat

Judge stops Trump’s Georgia sideshow: 5 key takeaways from the Fani Willis ruling

On Friday, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee rejected a motion to disqualify Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald...

16.03.2024 10

Salon

Austin Sarat

Alito’s cries of religious persecution are a chilling preview of Supreme Court in another Trump term

On Tuesday, Justice Samuel Alito gave another startling indication of how troubled he is by recent changes in American society and law. In an unusual...

23.02.2024 80

Salon

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Immunity ruling boosts chances of a speedy Jan. 6 trial for Trump

Good things, as the English proverb reminds us, come to those who wait. That proverb aptly describes Tuesday’s 3-0 decision the United...

07.02.2024 8

Salon

Austin Sarat

A Federal Judge Trusts Alabama to Run an Experimental Execution. Horrible Decision.

Tweet Share Share Comment Alabama plans to experiment with nitrogen hypoxia, a previously untried method of execution, when it...

16.01.2024 10

Slate

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Biden betrays his moral standing in Buffalo: Death penalty decision reveals his true colors

In a Friday afternoon announcement, the Biden Administration crossed the Rubicon when it said that it would seek the death penalty in the case of ...

13.01.2024 10

Salon

Austin Sarat

Ron DeSantis suffers a stinging defeat in his war on woke

In the last gasps of his presidential campaign, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to brag that he made his state the place where...

12.01.2024 30

Salon

Austin Sarat

The Supreme Court should resist taking the easy way out

In yet another almost unimaginable moment in America’s troubled recent history, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former Pres....

21.12.2023 10

Salon

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