After showing a remarkable lack of interest in the underlying facts, the U.S. Supreme Court has kept an adjudicated insurrectionist — by definition unfit to be president — on the ballot.
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Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
The only thing more outrageous than vesting the contents of a petri dish with legal rights is the Alabama Supreme Court’s use of religion to get there.
Less than a week after Donald Trump invited Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to American allies, Putin had Aleksei Navalny, his strongest political adversary, murdered in a Siberian prison.
In April 1949, the world reeled from unspeakable horrors. An estimated 85 million people suffered agonizing deaths in WWII: 45 million soldiers were smeared across battlefields; 25 million people starved to death; and 11 million Jews, gays and other minorities drew their last breath in Hitler’s maniacal death camps.
The Senate has unveiled a bipartisan immigration bill three decades in the making. Donald Trump has derailed it.
An old colleague and I exchanged a rolling text dialogue during the E. Jean Carroll jury trial last week.
Michael Roman, an indicted criminal co-defendant in Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case, has filed a 127-page motion to dismiss and disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis, her outside counsel Nathan Wade, and the entire Fulton County prosecutors’ office from the case on the grounds that Willis and Wade are having a consensual affair.
Ron DeSantis has left the race for president, but if Donald Trump is convicted of one of the many felonies he is facing, all bets are off as to what or who comes next.
A new study reports that a quarter of Americans believe the FBI, not Donald Trump, instigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That one-fourth of the country is so grossly misinformed actuates Ben Franklin’s wry quip about Americans having “a republic, if you can keep it.”
On Jan. 2, Donald Trump’s legal team filed his last official salvo with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, claiming on appeal that he is entitled to presidential immunity for plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
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