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After Anthony Scalia died unexpectedly in 2016, and after Republicans successfully thwarted Barack Obama’s nominee for the seat, Donald Trump tapped Neil Gorsuch, a...
Nervous ask
Joe Biden is making the Clinton campaign nervous. The Clinton campaign responds by pressuring nervous Democratic donors. Via The New York Times.
Keeping up
Speaking of...
Same-sex couples now have the right to marry in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Friday that the Constitution guarantees marriage equality, regardless of state-level...
In the 1820s, the American penal system sought to end mutilating, amputating and putting convicts to death by housing them alone in isolation cells....