Tag: Swing-States
What the Colorado Oral Argument Missed
Often the outcome of a Supreme Court case is hard to predict from its oral argument. Not yesterday’s.
The justices’ questions in Trump v. Anderson made clear that the Court will rule—perhaps even unanimously—that no state can decide to disqualify Donald Trump from serving as president unless and until Congress enacts a statute granting that permission. Because Congress hasn’t done so, the Court, in all likelihood, will order Colorado and every other state to let Trump continue his reelection campaign.
Virginia Could Decide the Future of the GOP’s Abortion Policy
A crucial new phase in the political struggle over abortion rights is unfolding in suburban neighborhoods across Virginia.
An array of closely divided suburban and exurban districts around the state will decide which party controls the Virginia state legislature after next month’s election, and whether Republicans here succeed in an ambitious attempt to reframe the politics of abortion rights that could reverberate across the nation.
After the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, the issue played
Why Biden Just Can’t Shake Trump in the Polls
Like so many bands of wind and rain, hurricane-strength squalls of bad news have battered former President Donald Trump all year. Since April, he’s been indicted four times, on 91 separate felony charges, compared with zero counts for all of his White House predecessors. Trump often likes to claim that anything associated with him is the most spectacular, even when it’s not, but when it comes to accumulating criminal charges, he’s the undisputed champ of former presidents.
President Joe Biden,
The Trump Trials Will Make 2024 Unimaginably Strange
No one wants to appear before a judge as a criminal defendant. But court is a particularly inhospitable place for Donald Trump, who conceptualizes the value of truth only in terms of whether it is convenient to him. His approach to the world is paradigmatic of what the late philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined as bullshit: Trump doesn’t merely obscure the truth through strategic lies, but rather speaks “without any regard for how things really are.” This is at odds
Die erschreckende Dynamik bei den Gouverneurswahlen in New Jersey
Aktualisiert am 9. November 2021 um 11:33 Uhr ET.
Etwa sechs Stunden nach Schließung der Wahllokale am Wahltag rief die Associated Press im knappen Rennen um den Gouverneur von Virginia auf: Der Demokrat Terry McAuliffe hatte verloren. McAuliffe räumte am Mittwochmorgen ein, als klar wurde, dass er keinen realistischen Weg zum Sieg hatte.
Das gleiche ist in New Jersey nicht passiert, wo der demokratische Amtsinhaber Phil Murphy den republikanischen Senator Jack Ciattarelli besiegte. Murphys Vorsprung war geringer als erwartet, aber