The preamble to India’s constitution carries echoes of America’s Declaration of Independence, which the framers admired. But where the first amendment of the latter enshrines an inalienable right to free speech, India’s severely curtails it https://t.co/UxkC4Jj4Ra ...

I'm proud I've appointed judges doing their best to be independent, fair, and partial, respecting the rule of law, and upholding the Constitution. I wish I could say same for the executive branch, >> but seems doing his best to dismantle the Constitution. >> Oh, I'm I'm being deadly earnest, man.which seems to be seems to be what's going on, you know, and they're doing it all too often with the help of a Congress that's just sitting on the sidelines. ...

On January 5th, 2007, a call with Fred Hyatt changed my life. I was dying a slow death at a corporate public relations firm during my second departure from journalism. Fred was the editorial page editor of the Washington Post and he was on the hunt for an editorial writer.We'd been in touch a few years before, but nothing came of it. This time was different. Hyatt hired me.My first day was February 15, 2007. In my memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home, I described my early days a ...

RT DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican)@JDVance Note: California's own state Constitution mandates that its redistricting be done by a bipartisan panel.So, yes, it's fair to complain about California's gerrymandering, because they are implicitly violating their own Constitution. ...

But what I am tired of is when the president of the United States of America violates the Constitution, trashes our norms and traditions, and what does the Democratic Party do. Comply, allow him, beg for scraps. No, I demand justice.This is a call, folks. The Democratic Party needs a wakeup call. I see law firms bending a knee to this president, not caring about the larger principles that those free speech rights that you could take on any client.Why are you bending the knee. I see universities that should ...

I was just called out by name and I want to respond. This is what frustrates me. I've passed numerous pieces of legislation for our police officer.I partnered with Chuck Grassley, the incredible senator from Iowa on a bill very similar to the one I support about police officers who fall in the line of duty. In this case, it was CO. Police officers who got CO and died had difficulty proving it was a line of duty death.We passed that legislation to make sure those families get the benefits. I've worked in bip ...

I rise today to propose an amendment to the bills before us. One that guarantees every officer in every state like Officer Islam has the full support they deserve in their service to our communities from this body. Sadly, this is not what the Justice Department is doing.Rather than supporting law enforcement agencies and officers equally across the nation, they are weaponizing public safety grants to punish state and local jurisdictions that resist the Trump policy agenda, including my home state of New Jer ...

Despite Donald Trump's repeated campaign promises that his mass deportation raids would target the quote worst of the worst, we've seen his administration actually target some of the best young students, high school students, landscapers, hardworking people on the job, at work. And now, American kids practicing the ultimate American pastime, baseball, at practice. One baseball coach, Human Wilder, described his experience at protecting his players after ICE agent showed up at the baseball practice he runs o ...

New reaction today to the turmoil inside the FBI over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. FBI Director Cash Patel went on X yesterday to say he doesn't plan to resign over the MAGA uprising. And a new warning from a former FBI agent who resigned after he says he was targeted based on his friendship with someone on Patel's enemies list.The reason this is so important is the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, they have a legitimate monopoly on the use of force in the Un ...

Joining me now is Lukan Ahmed Way, distinguished professor of democracy at the University of Toronto and the author of numerous books including Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism and Joyce Vance, former United States Attorney, co-host of the Sisters-in-law podcast and an MSNBC contributor. Welcome to you both. Luka, I think I'm we're getting a commission from University of Toronto.Uh this this show we had uh we had Jason Stanley on at at 10:00. You have studied how ...