Crackdown: 53 Dissidents Arrested in Hong Kong
China accused the activists and former legislators of "subverting state power."
China accused the activists and former legislators of "subverting state power."
It's a nailbiter as Kelly Loeffler appears headed for defeat, while David Perdue barely hangs on. The control of the Senate is at stake.
The electoral votes will soon be counted. Not everyone will do their duty.
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The ideal (if unlikely) outcome might be a split decision.
The incoming president can bring some much-needed professional diversity to the federal bench.
The president seems completely sincere, and he surrounds himself with advisers who reinforce his self-flattering fantasy.
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) called his colleagues' bluff yesterday.
No, the vice president does not have the power to reject validly appointed electors.
To alleviate "deep distrust of our democratic processes," the Texas senator is leading a doomed challenge to Joe Biden's electoral votes.
He and other GOP senators supporting his bid to reject certification of the 2020 election result ignore the fact that courts have already addressed the issues they raise.
The 45th president busted norms left and right. But the abuse of executive power didn't start and won't end with him.
California is driving on fumes and living off the residual investments and innovations of past generations. Is it any wonder so many Californians are heading to Texas or Arizona?
Lin Wood's bizarre charges give you a sense of the advisers Trump is consulting as he continues to insist that he won the presidential election.
The Missouri senator does not explicitly endorse Trump's loony conspiracy theory, but he can't escape its taint.
Sen. Josh Hawley, a supporter of Trump's trade policies, lobbied to give a special exemption to a Missouri-based power tools manufacturer. Many other elected officials did too.
Maybe voters were repelled by the very traits he has been vividly displaying since the election.
Louis Gohmert asserts a previously overlooked power to decide which electoral votes will be counted.
The Trump-friendly paper says the president should stop "cheering for an undemocratic coup" and focus on the GOP's political interests.
Fortunately, 2020 is nearly at an end. Unfortunately, its events will leave one hell of a mark on the years to come.
Aaron Reynolds is just trying to make people laugh, but his content may have been flagged on Instagram for interfering with the election.
Trump thinks the judiciary cannot be trusted to reveal the massive fraud that he says denied him a second term.
On Christmas Eve, the Seventh Circuit rejected the Trump campaign's attempt to challenge the Wisconsin election results.
Federal judges have been underwhelmed by the former Trump campaign lawyer's evidence of massive election fraud.
The political right needs more self-analysis and less whataboutism.
Eric Coomer says the claim that he bragged about fixing the election during an "antifa conference call" provoked a torrent of abuse and death threats.
The first defamation lawsuit against the Trump campaign and its allies has been filed. More seem likely.
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His rationale is both weak and would have justified keeping out his own father - a refugee from Cuba.
The president's advisers reportedly pushed back vigorously against his ideas.
The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to Trump's plans for being "premature" until the administration actually does what it says it plans to do.
Aaron Sorkin takes on the famous trial of activists who organized an anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic convention.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, now concedes there is no credible evidence to support the president's fanciful conspiracy theory.
A new book explicates the escaped slave and renowned orator's argument that the Constitution is "a glorious liberty document" that justified ending slavery.
The strategy of lodging objections under the Electoral Count Act has been tried before, but it has never succeeded.
Given the conspicuous lack of credible evidence, the president's charges can be accepted only as a matter of faith.
The president and his diehard allies in Congress continue to insist the election was stolen.
A surprising number of people seem to believe that the "improbability" that Biden could have won (in a fair election) is evidence that he didn't win (in a fair election). It isn't.
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What to say to a political party that keeps trying to overturn the results of an election?
Conservative judges have stymied Trump in his election challenges - and many other cases where his positions went against their legal principles. But a populist/nationalist GOP could gradually change the nature of conservative jurisprudence.
Although the president says the justices "chickened out," other courts have considered and rejected the merits of his legal arguments.
Authoritarian-minded officials have found opportunity in public health fears.
By his own account, the Texas senator is committed to defending a dishonest, amoral, narcissistic bully.
A recently appointed "Trump Judge" explains why the Trump campaign's legal claims are without merit
Trump’s judicial humiliation is now complete.