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Amend Traces the Fight for Equal Rights for All The documentary series deals with the Fourteenth Amendments impact on voting rights, desegregation, marriage equality, and more. February 02 2021 9:57 PM EST From left: Jim Obergefell, Laverne Cox, and Will Smith will be among those exploring the Fourteenth Amendments significance. Laverne Cox, Samira Wiley, Mahershala Ali, Diane Lane, Randall Park, and more will be featured in a new Netflix documentary series, Amend: The Fight for America, whic...

The Democratic impeachment claim that President Trump spurred the attack on the U.S. Capitol by whipping his supporters into a violent mob is coming under scrutiny as evidence mounts that the siege was not spontaneous but planned well in advance.

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images Donald Trump has been acquitted of a single impeachment charge that he incited a mob to storm the US Capitol. So what did the president say prior to the violence? On 6 January, thousands of Trump supporters gathered at a "Save America" rally organised to challenge the result of last Novembers presidential election. They listened as Mr Trump spoke to them on the National Mall, near the White House in Washington DC. In a 70-minute address, Mr Trump e...

How Fragile is Our Democracy? Garrett Epps Washington Monthly Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq, professors at the University of Chicago law school, want to convince readers that the last four years are not the result of Trump’s personality, or even of peculiarly American political woes. How to Save a Constitutional Democracy by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq. The University of Chicago Press. 295 pp. “American exceptionalism” is now a dogma of the right (recall their ceaseless attack on Obama f...

Trump’s election lawyers must be investigated Licensing authorities within each state have the authority to examine attorney misconduct. By Scott Harshbarger, Lauren Stiller Rikleen, and Dennis AftergutUpdated December 16, 2020, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a number of lawsuits across battleground states as he tried to upend the 2020 election. Judges uniformly rejected his claims of vote fraud.Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Since Election Day, la...

Was SCOTUS unanimous in tossing Texas election suit on standing ground? Alito a cipher   Image from Shutterstock.com. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday evening refused to allow Texas to file a lawsuit directly with the court that challenged the election results in four other states. The court’s order cited lack of standing by Texas, SCOTUSblog reports. “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections,” the order said....

Before we get to the latest installment of our new action-adventure series, This Week In Sedition, we should pause to salute two angry voices of reason. The first is Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who came to our notice here in the shebeen when, as one of his first acts as AG, he took a 12-pound sledge to Holy Mother Churchs stonewall that it had erected around the sex criminals in its clergy. On Thursday, he issued a reply to Texas AG Ken Paxton, who may not have noticed that his...

Had no answer at all. >> really quickly, in your latest piece in the atlantic, president trumps statement about the ju dishes process. do you think politics was a factor at all? >> i do not. i think you can disagree with the ninth circuits ruling, but i think they are working very hard and being careful to try to follow the law. and ill tell you one other thing which is, a president, weve never had one before in this country who literally sets out to try to intimidate judges while theyre sitting...

Those changes. you know, that is revenue into their pockets. decisive action needs to be taken. thats the only way that were going to be able to create change. otherwise, its just going to be lip service. people have to take decisive action and stand by their word and not be a hypocrite. >> greg, thank you very much for joining us tonight. lets get one more shot of joy reid and greg luganis up there. i want to see that up there so joy can have -- >> im not greg. >> oh, there it is. finally. >> c...

Part of it? >> well you know, theyre going to make the difference in making those changes. you know that is revenue into their pockets. decisive action needs to be taken. thats the only way that were going to be able to create change. otherwise, its just going to be lip service. people have to take decisive action and stand by their word and not be a hypocrite. >> greg thank you very much for joining us tonight. lets get one more shot of joy reid and greg luganis up there. i want to see that up ...