California Judge Will Lose His Job Over 6-Month Sentence in Stanford Sexual Assault Case
Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two years since former Stanford student Brock Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, voters in Santa Clara County, California, voted to recall the judge who sentenced him. Judge Aaron Persky of the Santa Clara County Superior Court will promptly…
Stock Market Still in the Trump Doldrums
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t have any good reason to post this. It’s just to annoy Trump fans by showing yet again that the current economy is nothing more than a straightforward extension of the Obama economy. Trump hasn’t wrecked Obama’s legacy yet, but that’s about the most…
Alabama Republican Who Refused to Back Trump Faces Runoff
Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) on the Capitol stepsBill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In October 2016, Rep. Martha Roby made a decision that seemed reasonable at the time—she revoked her endorsement of Donald Trump after hearing him brag about groping women on the now-infamous Access Hollywood video. “I cannot…
The Cake Ruling Wasn’t “Narrow,” It Was a Punt
Brian Cahn via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I realize this is about a decade old by the standards of how news cycles run these days, but I want to make a brief comment about yesterday’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling from the Supreme Court.¹ It’s being widely described as a…
Betsy DeVos Says School Safety Commission Won’t Study the Role of Guns in School Safety
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continued her streak of groan–inducing trips to Capitol…
Hundreds of Children Are Being Held at the Border for Longer Than the Law Typically Allows
Kevin Torres, 7, right, helps Darwin Ruiz, 5, put his shoes on in Huntington Station, New York in July 2014. Kevin arrived in the United States, unaccompanied, from El Salvador in May 2014. Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US law prohibits the government from holding unaccompanied children at…