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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...
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...
Another day, another miraculous escape from serious jeopardy for Donald Trump. Like a Secret Service agent shielding their protectee from danger,...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment Connecticut abolished capital punishment in April 2012. That made Connecticut the 17th state in this...
Tweet Share Share Comment The power to grant pardons and reprieves has long been a controversial one. It lodges in chief...
Donald Trump went to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with congressional Republicans. It was his first trip there since the January 6...
Tweet Share Share Comment At the end of last month, the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court went out of its...
Tweet Share Share Comment The president’s ability to grant pardons and commute sentences is a dramatic but generally quiet...
Even as support for the death penalty wanes across the country, Republican governors, led by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are signing into law...
Tweet Share Share Comment A blueprint for a second Trump term issued by conservative groups contains many alarming wake-up calls for progressives....
On Friday, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee rejected a motion to disqualify Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald...
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...
Good things, as the English proverb reminds us, come to those who wait. That proverb aptly describes Tuesday’s 3-0 decision the United...
Tweet Share Share Comment Alabama plans to experiment with nitrogen hypoxia, a previously untried method of execution, when it...
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 ...
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...
In yet another almost unimaginable moment in America’s troubled recent history, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former Pres....