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The Atlantic Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate. May 6, 2021 Caroline Brehman / CQ-Roll Call, Inc /Getty Liz Cheney, the representative of Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president, and a lifelong conservative Republican, is facing a purge. Cheney’s transgression? She has continued to insist, truthfully, that former President Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election are false, after having voted to impeach him in March for inciting a mob that st...

Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame Adam Serwer © Caroline Brehman / CQ-Roll Call, Inc /Getty Liz Cheney, the representative of Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president, and a lifelong conservative Republican, is facing a purge. Cheney’s transgression? She has continued to insist, truthfully, that former President Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election are false, after having voted to impeach him in March for inciting a mob that stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the result. Yesterday, Steve Scalise, the No. 2 Republican in the House, publicly ...

Alex Brandon/AP toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Ted Olson, the former Bush-era solicitor general, is part of a coalition of First Amendment groups asking the Supreme Court to review decisions of the intelligence courts. Alex Brandon/AP First Amendment groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to make public major decisions authorizing government surveillance, opinions that until now have remained almost secret. For years, the ACLU and other groups have maintained that the public has a First Amendment right to see major decisions of the Foreign Intellige...

© Greg Nash Civil liberties groups on Monday asked the Supreme Court to consider whether Americans have a right to access decisions handed down by the secretive foreign intelligence court that has played a central role amid the government’s expanded mass surveillance efforts over the past two decades. The groups, which include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), argued in their brief that the once-narrow role of the court associated with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ballooned following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and that its portfolio now has “prof...