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The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 on May 25 to confirm Kristen Clarke to head the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division. She will lead a Civil Rights Division (CRD) of the DOJ that has become less a race-neutral enforcer of civil rights laws and more a government wing of progressive organizations. A bill currently before Congress would give that politicized division sweeping powers over North Carolina’s elections. Christopher Coates, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawy...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: SPACs seem to be having their moment in the financial world, especially in 2021.  In less than three months, U.S.-based SPACs have raised more money – almost $88 billion – than all SPACs combined in 2020 (which held the previous high for SPAC investment by some margin).  They have even reached a level of societal notoriety, as shown by this week’s cover of New York Magazine.  However, before SPACs and their supporters can car...