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How to fix the Supreme Court's legitimacy crisis

3 years 9 months ago
Oral arguments resume at the Supreme Court next week, with student debt relief, immigration and labor relations among the cases on the agenda. The top US court will hear from some of the nation's finest attorneys on issues impacting the daily lives of Americans.

The terrible outcome if the fringe runs Congress

3 years 9 months ago
If Republicans can finally agree on a speaker, the same GOP leaders who spread former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election -- and who have consistently downplayed the grave threat to the nation posed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection carried out in his name -- will take the reins of power in the House.

Two classic films help explain what happened to Giuliani

3 years 9 months ago
My father, a lawyer, once told me he hated movies about the law. With one exception, they were always false in one way or another. Yet the exception spoke to him profoundly, to his years as a defense attorney in the civil courts of Texas. That was 1982's "The Verdict," starring Paul Newman, directed by Sidney Lumet with a screenplay by the playwright David Mamet. Newman plays an alcoholic ambulance chaser named Frank Galvin, who finds himself suddenly giving a damn about justice in the midst of a case that should have been open and shut.
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