Новости за 02.10.2023

Michigan Republicans have filed a lawsuit trying to overturn two major voting rights measures passed by voters, directly overruling the will of their constituents.

Republicans are continuing their campaign to downplay the January 6 insurrection, this time by comparing the violent riot to Representative Jamaal Bowman pulling a fire alarm.

House Republicans are planning a motion to expel Matt Gaetz from the chamber, even as he continues to threaten to expel Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

Former President Donald Trump went on a bizarre rant on Sunday evening, ranking his preferred form of violent death.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, considered paying Donald Trump $5 billion not to run for president in 2024, a new book reveals.

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is at least a little surprising because it puts the justices squarely back into an area of law that they have openly said they found a headache—and one they had seemingly found a way to neatly sidestep last decade.

So, here’s a preview of coming attractions. Trump: The Lawsuits debuts this week. Monday, in fact, in the Manhattan civil courtroom of Judge Arthur Engoron, judge of the Supreme Court 1st Judicial District in New York. This is the first of seven—count ’em, seven—trials Donald Trump is scheduled to face between now and Election Day. Let’s take stock of all the litigation to come.

On October 2, when the Supreme Court hosts its first oral argument of the 2023–24 term, members of its right-wing 6–3 supermajority will be in the spotlight and on the spot. One question in particular will rivet attention on all sides: During the previous term, the court registered something of an unexpected turn toward the center—a move that was partial and inconsistent but still startling to foes and fans alike. We look to this term to see whether this presages an enduring shift in direction... Читать дальше...

The membership of the Supreme Court has almost entirely turned over since John G. Roberts Jr. became chief justice. Only Clarence Thomas remains from the group that Roberts joined in 2005. But the transformation of the court goes well beyond its personnel. The original Roberts court was dominated by moderate Republicans (preeminently Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor, but also John Paul Stevens and David Souter), and the justices were, for the most part, invisible to the broader public except for their pronouncements from the bench. Читать дальше...