In October 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a new class of civil servant that would no longer enjoy civil service protections from firing. The stated reason was to remove incompetents, who can be difficult to fire. The real reason was to eliminate government employees who were insufficiently loyal to Trump’s policies.
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Last Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Maryland picked two radical extremists as their nominees in November’s race for governor and attorney general. In electing Dan Cox as their gubernatorial candidate and Michael Peroutka as their nominee for attorney general, Maryland Republicans showed not just that they prefer the Trumpier brand of the GOP. They showed that a long campaign by radical right theocrats to take over the party has borne more fruit in the age of Trump than ever before, coalescing... Читать дальше...
A major question that has emerged over the last few weeks is whether the Supreme Court, having just slain Roe v. Wade, will now turn its sword against other major precedents that shape American life. In a concurring opinion last month in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas called upon the court to “revisit” other substantive due process cases. He explicitly cited Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down bans on contraceptives for married couples, and Lawrence v. Читать дальше...
It’s boring conventional wisdom by now that the House January 6 committee has done an excellent job. But for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been wondering if they’re doing too good a job.
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