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Amend Traces the Fight for Equal Rights for All The documentary series deals with the Fourteenth Amendment's 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 Amendment's 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, which explores the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as the nation’s most enduring hallm...

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 November's 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 exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians had met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. Th...

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 for his supposed apostasy), but, as Ginsburg and Huq explain, the phrase was actually coined by the A...

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, lawyers acting on behalf of President Trump have lost nearly 60 election lawsuits. Even with the Elect...