Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement Is Probably Making Scott Pruitt Very, Very Happy
Mitchell Resnick/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Vermont Law School professor Patrick Parenteau has given lots of interviews since Wednesday, when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. Most have…
Kentucky Governor Is Going to Screw Medicaid Recipients Come Hell or High Water
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, a federal court struck down a plan from Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Today he got his revenge: Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration has abruptly cut Medicaid dental and vision benefits to nearly half…
Susan Collins Will Vote to Kill Abortion Rights
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Is Roe v. Wade effectively dead once President Trump nominates a conservative new justice to replace Anthony Kennedy? Maybe not! Republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate, and Susan Collins of Maine told Jake Tapper yesterday that she won’t…
Most Illegal Border Crossers Are Turned Around and Sent Home Immediately
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a chart I put up a few days ago showing the total number of border apprehensions over the past several decades: As you can see, the number of illegal border crossings has plummeted dramatically in the past two decades. It’s less than a quarter…
Ben Carson’s War on HUD
Mother Jones illustration; US Department of Housing and Urban Development Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ben Carson was an unlikely choice to take over the nation’s housing department. The neurosurgeon turned failed GOP presidential candidate reportedly rejected President Donald Trump’s initial offer to serve as secretary of health and human…
Trump Judicial Pick Who Blogged Favorably About the KKK Had to Withdraw. Now He’s at the Justice Department.
Bastiaan Slabbers/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Talley had already been voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was on his way to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench when reporters discovered what he’d written about the Klan. Since 2005, Talley, a 36-year-old lawyer nominated for a…