Epstein Secrets

ishing a new commission is necessary or wise." Perry Bacon Jr. writes in the Washington Post (5/20, 10.52M) that the nation's "biggest problem" is the Republican Party, which when given "a clear chance to move on from Trumpism after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol," has "instead continued its drift toward anti-dem

he confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett "didn't just give conservatives on the court a 6-3 majority; it also means Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is no longer as likely to be a swing vote on the court - marking a sudden change to the amount of power Roberts has to steer the direction of the c

and low. There is in his story a faint pathos: a youth suffused with some understandable resentments; an encyclopedic knowledge of what used to be the Republican Party; a sense that he could have done positive things with the talents he had — or as New Stone might say, with the talents God gave him. But mostly he m

d a momentous term with a trove of decisions more reflective of public opinion than of the nation's divisive political discourse, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as a formidable counterpart to President Trump and the Congress." However, the Post adds, "it wasn't just Roberts," highlighting the court'

E.J. Dionne wrote this week in The Washington Post — It's our system on the cliff — The United States faces a crisis in our political system because the Republican Party, particularly in the House of Representatives, is no longer a normal, governing party. Republicans in the House will blame it on the Democrats, exc

in J. Halligan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that has been vacant since September 2005, when John G. Roberts Jr. moved to a courthouse up the street. The president has submitted the name of the superbly qualified Ms. Halligan to the Senate three times. When the