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Trump Loyalists Still Waiting for Job Offers | The New Republic
10 小时之前 · Those who worked tirelessly for President-elect Trump during campaign season may not get the coveted administration jobs they were promised, according to reporting from NOTUS.The lower level roles that Trump has yet to fill were apparently supposed to go to the bureaucrats of Project 2025. But Trump’s strategic separation from the Project put the future jobs of many of those bureaucrats in ...
House Members Clap for Joy at Matt Gaetz’s Absence
7 小时之前 · Gaetz was reelected for another two-year term in November. He then resigned his seat, however, when Donald Trump announced him as pick for attorney general, amid a House Ethics Committee investigation that found that Gaetz had “engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted ...
John Roberts Is Imagining Things | The New Republic
16 小时之前 · This year’s theme was judicial independence and the peril it faces. Roberts’s choice of topic is timely. Public approval of the Supreme Court has declined precipitously since he joined it two decades ago this year, with fewer than half of Americans expressing support in a Pew Research Center survey last year. An alarming Gallup survey from December found that only 35 percent of Americans ...
How Renegade Juries Could Help Thwart Trumpian Misrule
1 天前 · With some calling Luigi Mangione a folk hero for the alleged killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the concept of jury nullification—which has a long history of use in the U.S. as a means of popular resistance to unpopular laws and unjust prosecutions—has been dragged back into the spotlight.But even as the pundit class frets about this jury power being used to …
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening | The New Republic
2 天之前 · Consider these archetypal dispatches from the 2024 campaign trail. “A lot of people are happy to vote for [Trump] because they simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will,” an October New York Times “campaign notebook” entry observed.The following week, The Washington Post noted of prospective Trump voters: “Some read between Trump’s lines about how he would ...
The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation
4 天之前 · The fight pitted the anti-immigrant wing of Trump’s coalition against the people President Theodore Roosevelt famously labelled malefactors of great wealth.Stripped of its racially toxic content, it was a dispute over whether the United States should grant more visas to high-skilled foreign guest workers.
Abortion Prepping for the Trump Era | The New Republic
4 天之前 · This kind of preparedness looks nothing like the stereotype of predominantly right-wing preppers with their bunkers and wilderness-ready “bugout” bags: Rather than imagining you’re prepping for some last stand, alone but for barrels of potable water and ammo, prepping around bodily autonomy looks a lot more like the long-standing DIY scene, built on the value of sharing skills and resources.
Matt Gaetz Loses It After House Ethics Quietly Votes to Release …
2024年12月18日 · It previously appeared that Gaetz would successfully dodge the likely embarrassing revelation. In November, two days before the Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing the report, the former Florida lawmaker resigned from the House of Representatives, following the announcement of his since-thwarted nomination to be President-elect Trump’s attorney general.
Democrats Still Haven’t Figured Out How to Attack Trump
2024年12月10日 · Speaking of relevant experience, almost none of Trump’s proposed cabinet members have any. What they do have is money and, in many cases, deep conflicts of interest with the agencies they will be tasked with running.. Over the last month, the Democratic Party has been stuck in a turgid existential crisis, as the party licks its wounds following Donald Trump’s return to the White House.