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The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
May 15, 2023
“To take the 14th Amendment off the table is to say that part of the Constitution no longer binds us. We can’t do that…it would…
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Opinion: Is your fridge filled with ‘expired’ food? Here’s why you shouldn’t throw it away
May 12, 2023
An op-ed by Emily Broad Leib: If on digging through your fridge you find food stamped with a phrase such as “Enjoy by,” “Best before,”…
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Back in 2021, President Joe Biden announced the administration’s new Justice40 Initiative through Executive Order 14008. The program’s aim is that 40 percent of the…
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The Dark Side of Defamation Law
May 11, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the early years of our country, public men who felt maligned could end up killing over it. The…
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She ran Harvard Law School and mentored future politicians. Now she wants them to get along
May 11, 2023
In February 2020, Martha Minow stepped up to the podium at a U.S. State Department conference to address a task force assembled by Secretary of…
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The Biden administration on Thursday announced the first regulations to limit greenhouse pollution from existing power plants, capping an unparalleled string of climate policies that,…
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‘Mr. President, if you’re listening…’: Laurence Tribe on how to end GOP debt default crisis
May 11, 2023
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who’s advised three Democratic presidents on separation of powers and the 14th Amendment,…
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EPA proposes new rules that would dramatically slash planet-warming pollution from power plants
May 11, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday will propose one of its most highly anticipated climate rules to date, compelling nearly all US power plants that…
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President Joe Biden made waves Tuesday when he acknowledged he was considering using the 14th Amendment to end the debt standoff — before saying he…
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Biden “considering” debt ceiling escape clause
May 10, 2023
President Biden publicly signaled on Tuesday that he’s weighing options to take debt ceiling default off the table in the future, including a controversial theory…
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Artificial intelligence is the ultimate double-edged sword. It’s advancing medical technology at an astonishing rate and improving the quality of life globally, but it’s also…
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When Clarence Thomas was accepted to Yale Law School in 1971, the school’s stated goal was for students of color like him to make up…
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A Climate-Smart Farm Bill Can Save Lives
May 10, 2023
In August 2017, as wildfires raged across British Columbia, a blanket of smoke settled over the neighboring state of Washington, turning the sun blood-red and…
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Amid raging debate in Congress over Supreme Court ethics, White House reluctant to step in
May 9, 2023
Chatter on Capitol Hill about ethical standards at the Supreme Court has reached a fever pitch following the steady stream of revelations about Justice Clarence…
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Laurence Tribe: President’s ‘duty’ is to pay debts despite GOP giving him an ‘impossible choice‘
May 9, 2023
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe who explains what the president’s constitutional duties are despite the demands from House Republicans…
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Five days before Michael Kirk’s documentary about the love and lives of Clarence and Ginni Thomas was set to air on PBS, ProPublica dropped another…
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Film and TV studios could replace striking writers with artificial intelligence bots, and there’s not much labor unions could do to stop it without language…
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Back in 2021, President Joe Biden announced the administration’s new Justice40 Initiative through Executive Order 14008. The program’s aim is that 40 percent of the…
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Courts decide vexing legal matters and interpret opaque constitutional language all the time, from defining pornography and judging whether a search or seizure is unreasonable…
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Harvard University law professor Jack Goldsmith thinks President Joe Biden should “stop” commenting about ongoing probes in the wake of the tax investigation against his…
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Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit
May 8, 2023
Guest essay by Laurence Tribe: At this moment, at the White House as well as the Departments of Treasury and Justice, officials are debating a…