Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the liberals in dissent, gets to the core of what the conservative majority’s dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency’s power is really about: its animosity towards agency power in general, and desire to shift that power to itself.
Continue reading “Kagan Calls EPA Decision What It Really Is: Unvarnished Hostility Towards Agency Power”Trump Whines Mid-Newsmax Interview That Newsmax Isn’t Lying About Election Hard Enough
It seems like ex-President Donald Trump’s finding it difficult to cope as right-wing media allies quietly slip away from his fake narratives about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Continue reading “Trump Whines Mid-Newsmax Interview That Newsmax Isn’t Lying About Election Hard Enough”The Supreme Court Just Made Combatting Climate Change A Lot Harder
In case you missed it, John Light and Kate Riga did a quick debrief on Twitter Spaces about the Supreme Court’s latest big decision. Take a listen through the link below and follow us @TPM to join the next one.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Sworn In As First Black Woman On Supreme Court
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court on Thursday, making history as she succeeds retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Continue reading “Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Sworn In As First Black Woman On Supreme Court”Kagan Turns Conservative Justices’ Recent Love Affair With History Against Them In EPA Case
Justice Elena Kagan, in a sly section of a searing dissent, uses historical antecedents to prove that Congress has always delegated broad power to agencies.
Continue reading “Kagan Turns Conservative Justices’ Recent Love Affair With History Against Them In EPA Case”Stragglers
From TPM Reader JR …
Continue reading “Stragglers”Hi, Illinois reader here.
I just called the DC offices of Senators Durbin and Duckworth. Both liberal stalwarts, obviously, but neither staffer showed particular awareness of the question of whether the filibuster will need to be suspended to enact abortion protections.
Neither seemed clear on any kind of promise that the Senate would do something concrete if people vote in the Fall.
Ex-Trump WH Aide Details Why Hutchinson Switched Lawyers Weeks Before Damning Testimony
Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah on Thursday detailed the series of events that led to the damning testimony Cassidy Hutchinson — a former top aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — delivered during a Jan. 6 Select Committee public hearing this week.
Continue reading “Ex-Trump WH Aide Details Why Hutchinson Switched Lawyers Weeks Before Damning Testimony”TPM Readers Prayers Answered!
Over the last couple weeks I’d shared reports from TPM Readers struggling to get a response from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire on whether she supports making Roe law and changing the filibuster rules to allow that bill to get a straight up or down vote. This morning I chatted with Shaheen’s Communications Director Sarah Weinstein who confirmed to me that Shaheen not only supports making Roe federal law (which she and 48 other Democrats attempted to do a few weeks ago) but also “supports amending the filibuster rules so a bill to codify Roe could pass by simple majority.”
Continue reading “TPM Readers Prayers Answered!”SCOTUS Will Hear Case Next Term That Could Transform Election Law
After knee-capping the federal government’s ability to address greenhouse gases and other national regulatory issues Thursday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case next term that could effectively eliminate the role of state courts and dramatically increase the power of state legislatures in questions of federal election law, a potentially huge win for the right in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election theft attempt.
Continue reading “SCOTUS Will Hear Case Next Term That Could Transform Election Law”Biden Announces Support For Abortion Rights Filibuster Exception
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his support for the Senate to create an exception to the filibuster in order to codify abortion rights into federal law.
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