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John Roberts Is Imagining Things | The New Republic
2 days ago · This year’s theme was judicial independence and the peril it faces. Roberts’s choice of topic is timely. Public approval of the Supreme Court has declined precipitously since he joined it two decades ago this year, with fewer than half of Americans expressing support in a Pew Research Center survey last year. An alarming Gallup survey from December found that only 35 percent of Americans ...
Trump Loyalists Still Waiting for Job Offers | The New Republic
2 days ago · Those who worked tirelessly for President-elect Trump during campaign season may not get the coveted administration jobs they were promised, according to reporting from NOTUS.The lower level roles that Trump has yet to fill were apparently supposed to go to the bureaucrats of Project 2025. But Trump’s strategic separation from the Project put the future jobs of many of those bureaucrats in ...
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening | The New Republic
4 days ago · Consider these archetypal dispatches from the 2024 campaign trail. “A lot of people are happy to vote for [Trump] because they simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will,” an October New York Times “campaign notebook” entry observed.The following week, The Washington Post noted of prospective Trump voters: “Some read between Trump’s lines about how he would ...
How Renegade Juries Could Help Thwart Trumpian Misrule
3 days ago · With some calling Luigi Mangione a folk hero for the alleged killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the concept of jury nullification—which has a long history of use in the U.S. as a means of popular resistance to unpopular laws and unjust prosecutions—has been dragged back into the spotlight.But even as the pundit class frets about this jury power being used to free someone ...
Enshittification Comes to Washington | The New Republic
4 days ago · The federal government typically gets a bad rap from the media, who often depict it as a faceless, bloated, and lethargic bureaucracy. But as Michael Lewis documented in his book The Fifth Risk, as well as a series of stories along similar lines he curated last year at The Washington Post, the civil service is a hive of innovation …
The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation
6 days ago · The fight pitted the anti-immigrant wing of Trump’s coalition against the people President Theodore Roosevelt famously labelled malefactors of great wealth.Stripped of its racially toxic content, it was a dispute over whether the United States should grant more visas to high-skilled foreign guest workers.
House Members Clap for Joy at Matt Gaetz’s Absence
2 days ago · Gaetz was reelected for another two-year term in November. He then resigned his seat, however, when Donald Trump announced him as pick for attorney general, amid a House Ethics Committee investigation that found that Gaetz had “engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted ...
Democracy Is No Bulwark Against Oligarchy | The New Republic
Dec 25, 2024 · Thanks to the 14-year run of The Apprentice, even the politically ignorant were well aware that Donald Trump (net worth $6.2 billion, per Forbes) was a wealthy real estate tycoon.If anything, the voting public judged Trump wealthier than he really is; as John D. Miller, a marketer for the NBC series, pointed out in October, “We created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful ...
Here Are the States That Voted for Labor Rights—and, Bizarrely, …
Nov 6, 2024 · Though most of California’s ballot measures are too early to call, the results as of Wednesday morning are disappointing. Californians voted to essentially keep slavery legal by voting down Proposition 6, which would have amended the state constitution to end involuntary labor for people in prisons and jails. Moreover, the state also most likely will strike down a proposal to increase the ...