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Friday Nite Videos | November 15, 2024

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The Cast of SNL Is Sincerely Sorry. What a Trump DOJ Will Look Like. Separated | Trailer. We Have To Talk About Weed. Iraqis Tortured at Abu Ghraib Win $42 Million Judgment.

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What a Trump DOJ Will Look Like

It's more than Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. Trump is seeking to turn the Justice Department into his personal law firm, with bombshell consequences.

Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
The real headline of this election isn’t about Trump’s victory. It’s about how the Federalist Society coalition of plutocrats and theocrats has all but completed its mission to repeal and replace the 20th Century by judicial fiat. 

Presidential Immunity Didn’t Fall out of a Coconut Tree

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
The six Supreme Court justices who invented presidential immunity are not 'conservative.' A series of interventions by Federalist Society judges have rewritten the United States Constitution and democratic rules in favor of plutocratic interests.

Tidbits – Aug. 8 – Reader Comments: 2024 Elections: Democratic Convention, Harris, Walz, Uncommitted Movement; Israel Killing Hamas Leaders Who Want Ceasefire; Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Biden Issues a Stinging Dissent to SCOTUS; Cartoons;

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Reader Comments: 2024 Elections: Democratic Convention, Harris, Walz, Uncommitted Movement; Israel Killing Hamas Leaders Who Want Ceasefire; Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Biden Issues a Stinging Dissent to SCOTUS; Lots of Cartoons; more....

Friday Nite Videos | August 2, 2024

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Can the Supreme Court Strike Down Court Reform? The Woman Who Inspires Fear in Corporate America. War Game | Documentary. Kamala Harris Hunts for a VP | Daily Show. Religious Affiliation Declines, Christian Communities Divide.

Joe Biden Issues a Stinging Dissent to SCOTUS

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
The reforms President Biden has proposed are just the beginning of a long battle to restore the independence of the Supreme Court that was lost when conservatives seized this branch of our government for their own ends.
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