Is SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Soft On Crime’? Panel Debates
Olayemi Olurin and Rachel Bovard discuss Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first day of confirmation hearings.
Olayemi Olurin and Rachel Bovard discuss Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first day of confirmation hearings.
Krystal and Saagar present the media’s silence on the Hunter Biden laptop coverup meanwhile the CIA operatives who worked with media and tech companies double down on their false ‘misinformation’ claim
By Grayson Quay The Week Missouri’s state legislature is considering a proposal that would empower private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri woman obtain an abortion, even if the abortion takes place in another state, Politico reported Saturday. “If a Missouri resident is hurt, even in Illinois, […]
Let’s be honest, if this was Trump’s kid this would be front-page news and these two ladies would be saying take his kin down!!
Team Rising reacts to renewed calls by the GOP to investigate Hunter Biden.
By Jacob Sullum, Reason A new report emphasizes that the U.S. would still have a very high incarceration rate even if all drug war prisoners were released. The number of people in U.S. jails and prisons fell substantially in 2020: by 25 percent and 15 percent, respectively. But […]
By Victoria Law, The Nation Attempts to improve care for a wide range of chronic conditions have stalled, leaving incarcerated people to suffer. “Medical is a joke,” said Davide Coggins, currently imprisoned at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in New York’s Washington County. “Unless you have […]
US really needs to rid itself of empty slogans like “land of the free” and “shining city upon a hill” because we’re truly the opposite of those things and other countries see through us
By Joe Marino and Melissa Klein New York Post The 33-year-old man shot multiple times in the legs and groin in an attempted robbery of his six-figure Richard Mille watch is a French-born cryptocurrency expert who flaunted his timepieces on social media. Pierrick Jamaux told police a man demanded his watch as […]
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the Julian Assange legal battle now that the UK Supreme Court has rejected the appeal in Assange’s fight against extradition to the US
By Simone Hanna National Impulse Corrigan Clay – a U.S. pastor who moved to Haiti and adopted two orphans – has been arrested on child sex abuse charges against one of his children. Corrigan is the co-founder of the “Apparent Project”, a non-profit charity organization established by his […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the long awaited confirmation that the laptop containing financial and personal information about Hunter Biden is real and currently being investigated by the Justice Department of his father, President Joe Biden
By Bernadette Hogan and Carl Campanile Gov. Kathy Hochul is now proposing a sweeping public safety package including changes that will make more crimes bail eligible in New York after weeks of being accused of ignoring the city and state’s crime wave, The Post has learned. The 10-point […]
George Wallace: We need to expand Social Security and Medicare to help the poor and combat homelessness. Rick Scott: Raise taxes on the poor and cut Social Security and Medicare, who cares if mommy and her 5 kids have to sleep on the sidewalk.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s future in light of the latest developments in his case.
Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Matt Taibbi. Matt is a writer, journalist, and podcaster. He’s a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and co-host of the “Useful Idiots” Podcast. He won the National Magazine Award in 2008 and is the author of […]
The Signal How much legal trouble is Donald Trump in? Kimberly Wehle on the criminal and civil investigations trailing the former U.S. president. No longer, for the moment, dominating headlines in the U.S. or around the world, Donald Trump faces increasing legal peril. It’s entirely possible that he will […]
By Elie Mystal The Nation In a nod to the bad old days, an amendment to a Missouri anti-abortion bill would make it a crime to help a pregnant Missourian get an abortion outside the state. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the seizure and return of […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish She makes the case for more compassion and less coercion when it comes to drug addiction. But when does compassion become enabling? Maia is the author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, and her latest book, Undoing Drugs, which […]
By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortion providers on Friday conceded a final blow to their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law after a new ruling ended what little path forward the U.S. Supreme Court had […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave debate whether Ghislaine Maxwell will receive a new trial.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate whether Jussie Smollett’s 150-day jail sentence is too harsh.
Public defender, Olayemi Olurin, details the calls for officials to shutdown Rikers Island.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster founder David Sirota to better understand how corporate special interests use their money to influence decisions made by the Supreme Court
By Peter Weber The Week A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Guy Reffitt, a Texas oil and gas rig manager and consultant, on all five counts tied to his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, handing federal prosecutors a key victory in the first Jan. 6 cases put before a […]
By Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett Washington Post Arrest shows prosecutors are moving beyond the scene of the crime toward anyone who directed or planned such violence. Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a longtime leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, was arrested Tuesday on charges that he conspired with […]
By Ben Feuerherd and Kenneth Garger New York Post The founder of a Russian propaganda center in New York — who helped push an “I Love Russia” campaign — was hit with federal charges Tuesday that she acted as an illegal agent of the Kremlin. Alleged spy Elena […]
By Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith The Intercept Dr. Thomas Young is adamant: Melissa Lucio should not be put to death. “This would be a horrible, horrible tragedy if she ends up getting executed over this,” he said. “It’s just not right.” Young is a veteran forensic pathologist and […]
By Mike Murillo, WTOP Days before reopening since being closed for almost two years due to the pandemic, a D.C. restaurant will remain closed after vandals targeted its building twice with anti-Russian messages. Aaron McGovern, the co-owner of Russia House Restaurant and Lounge on Connecticut Avenue, said someone […]
Host of the Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, reacts to Senate Democrats’ failed push to invoke cloture on the codification of Roe v. Wade.
It’s FANTASTIC that she has experience as a DEFENSE LAWYER instead of PROSECUTOR.
Business consultant, Pamela Denise Long, Ryan Grim, and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
Krystal and Saagar analyze the record of Biden’s SCOTUS justice pick Ketanji Brown-Jackson who was announced as the choice to fill Justice Breyer’s void amidst the Ukraine war
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Victims of a right-wing gunman’s shooting spree in Portland said it was unprovoked. Why did the police make the attack sound like a shootout? Prosecutors in Portland, Oregon, charged a right-wing gunman with murder on Tuesday, three days after he opened fire on a […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week The thing that makes Ketanji Brown Jackson such an excellent nominee to the Supreme Court is also the thing that makes her ripe for attacks from Republicans: She once served as a public defender — the very first one ever appointed to the […]
Kim Iversen and Hill reporter, Julia Manchester, preview President Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez discusses corporate influence on our country’s climate crisis response.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Melik Abdul react to the Fed’s decision to bar officials from trading stocks, crypto, and bonds.
By Josh Gerstein Politico President Joe Biden has selected D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, making history by picking a Black woman for the nation’s highest court, two sources familiar with the situation told POLITICO. Jackson, […]
By Chris Spargo, Law and Crime Jordan Morgan (right with her father C. Wesley Morgan in a photo from Facebook) was shot dead on Tuesday during a home invasion. The daughter of a Republican former state representative from Kentucky was shot and killed during an early morning home […]
By Pilar Arias | Fox News Bethany K. Farber suing City of Los Angeles, LAPD and LAX police. A southern California woman experienced a case of mistaken identity while trying to board a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Mexico last April. Bethany K. Farber, 30, was […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the questionable record of judge Michelle Childs who appears to be the front runner for Biden’s Supreme Court nomination to replace the retiring Stephen Breyer
By Kenneth Garger A Wisconsin restaurant worker who was shot in the face during a dispute over an incomplete order last month has spoken out about the harrowing ordeal that he thought was going to end his life. Anthony Rodriguez, 26, was working as the sole server at […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week The Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning whether a Colorado web designer may decline to provide her services for same-sex weddings. The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case, in which a Christian web designer, Lorie Smith, […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave consider whether individuals should have legal recourse for misleading or outright incorrect media coverage.
Saagar examines the IRS’ plan to collect facial recognition data and why America must reject it in order to avoid a crackdown like we saw in Canada
Team Rising discusses New York City’s approach to solving mental illness and homelessness as violence continues to increase in the city’s subway system.
Would love to see the court apply the same logic to the DEA
Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Alan Dershowitz are shady characters in all of this.
Krystal and Saagar investigate the mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking pimp Jean-Luc Brunel in a French prison that was not caught on camera
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