Deep Blue Well

23/12/2021

The US’s history of racism is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, voting rights and women’s rights are steps to toppling democracy

20/12/2021

16/12/2021

Rep. Louie Gohmert sued then-Vice President Mike Pence on Dec. 27. Donald Trump’s involvement in the case remains unclear.

15/12/2021

Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said the Senate's willingness to relax its rules in order to lift the debt ceiling leaves him wondering why Democratic colleagues won't do the same to pass voting rights.

14/12/2021

The lawsuit filed by the District of Columbia alleges the Trump International Hotel violated Washington laws governing nonprofit organizations.

13/12/2021

One of the most powerful communication tools available to politicians teems with unfounded claims and largely escapes notice.

13/12/2021

A federal judge on Friday rejected Steve Bannon's challenge to the limits the Justice Department was seeking on public disclosure of evidence the government turned over to him in his case.

11/12/2021

Roberts joined the high court’s three liberal justices in discussing the constitutionality of the Texas abortion law.

10/12/2021

Weeks after the 2020 election, a Chicago publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West traveled to the suburban home of Ruby Freeman, a frightened Georgia election worker who was facing death threats after being falsely accused by former President Donald Trump of manipulating votes. The publicist knocked....

10/12/2021

Voter suppression in Georgia is working as planned.

52% of rejected absentee ballot applications were denied due to a new deadline in the Republican law.

10/12/2021

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to dismiss a legal challenge to Georgia’s restrictive GOP-crafted voting law, clearing the way for the suit to proceed.

10/12/2021

Protesters filled the meeting room of the Spalding County Board of Elections in October, upset that the board had disallowed early voting on Sundays for the Nov. 2 municipal election. A year ago, Sunday voting had been instrumental in boosting turnout of Black voters.

09/12/2021

The Biden administration makes a persuasive case that Texas violated the Voting Rights Act, but the Supreme Court hates the Voting Rights Act.

08/12/2021

Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking Trump officials, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee's activities.

08/12/2021

Yes, a largely white jury convicted Arbery's killers, and that's historic. It should also be a source of shame

08/12/2021

06/12/2021

Records also detail acrimony between Powell and her top lieutenants over how the money — now a focus of inquiries by federal prosecutors and Congress — was being handled.

06/12/2021

In a 36-page memo to the Capitol riot committee, Col. Earl Matthews also slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-ridden report.

04/12/2021

An AI study shows it's not just our imagination.

04/12/2021

Desperate to overturn his election loss, the Trump team spun a sprawling voter-fraud fiction with two rank-and-file election workers, a mother and her daughter, as the main villains.

02/12/2021

Right-wing political operatives have launched a swarm of lawsuits to oppose funding for farmers of color.

30/11/2021

Sources tell Guardian Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result

30/11/2021

Sens. Hawley and Cruz have the right to defend themselves from the allegations — but so far, they haven’t even had to.

30/11/2021

The National Labor Relations Board has authorized a new union election at one of Amazon's Alabama warehouses, the labor union behind the effort said Monday.

23/11/2021

Wisconsin mass killer is linked to domestic violence, a numbingly familiar story.

22/11/2021

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/j6-white-house-rally-organizers-trump-cooperate-1260849/?s=09

21/11/2021

The incident, in which a private laptop was plugged into the government computer network inside the office of a Lake County commissioner, came the same month as a similar event in Mesa County, Colo., which is also under FBI investigation.

19/11/2021

David Brooks

Voters may pummel Democrats next year, but future generations will be grateful.

16/11/2021

Hubbard tried to influence prison legislation from prison

11/11/2021

Companies appeal to Biden administration to roll back the tariffs.

04/11/2021

The ban is the strongest step an American president has taken to curb abuses in the global market for spyware.

03/11/2021

Some lawyers say that protection doesn’t extend to campaign matters.

03/11/2021

Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.

02/11/2021

It trods over the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and the 14th Amendment so clumsily that it even offended Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

02/11/2021

Chalk Up a Win for Biden: a Minimum Tax on Corporations

02/11/2021

I could go on and on about how cancel culture comes from both sides. But all I can think about is a woman.

01/11/2021

The stunning allegation is as yet uncorroborated, but holds indicia of reliability. Flynn's Texas-billionaire-funded Patriot Caucus may indeed be plotting to use extortion to reinstall Trump as POTUS.

31/10/2021