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If you are a federal agent who enjoys violating the constitutional rights of other people, the Supreme Court gave you some good news on Wednesday. In its ruling in Egbert v. Boule, the court sharply limited the ability of wronged Americans to sue federal law enforcement officials in some civil rights cases. The ruling further narrows a remedy for constitutional violations that has come under attack by conservative justices in recent years. It also builds upon a troubling trend in the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence. Читать дальше...

In July 1950, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter came to offer testimony to a group of U.S. senators. Hillenkoetter, appointed director of the newly minted Central Intelligence Agency three years earlier, recounted for the assembled senators a cautionary tale from across the Atlantic: In the years before World War I, the Austro-Hungarian counterintelligence service discovered that one of its officers, Colonel Alfred Redl, had been passing privileged information to Russian agents. Redl was a gay man... Читать дальше...

Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act—which affirms the New York Power Authority’s ability to build publicly-owned renewables, and sets a deadline for shuttering its fossil fueled plants—died a quiet death in the early hours of the morning as the year’s legislative session wrapped up in overtime. It wasn’t climate-denying Republicans that kept Albany from passing climate legislation for the third year in a row. Instead, it was the leadership of New York state’s Democratic supermajority—all... Читать дальше...

After threats made against Pride events by far-right actors in Idaho and Arizona over the past few weeks, a group whose leader calls herself a “Christian fascist” and others with ties to white nationalist groups targeted a Pride event in Dallas on Saturday.

The prime-time January 6 committee hearings that begin on Thursday—the first of at least six, which will run until September—are the Democrats’ last, best chance to make the case that Republicans are an existential threat to American democracy. The party is hardly confident that they will make a dime’s worth of difference.