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A historic heat wave in Texas is turning up the temperature on Gov. Greg Abbott after his recent signing of a controversial law known by critics as the “Death Star bill.”Last week, I wrote a post about the Republican governor’s signing of the legislation, which has been nicknamed after the central space station used by

President Joe Biden’s policy intended to allow eligible Americans to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debts, benefiting tens of millions of people. As my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin explained, Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court had a different idea.The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan that would have canceled billions of dollars of debt for millions of Americans.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 6-3 decision, claiming the federal government lacked authority for the plan. But as Justice Elena Kagan pointed out in her dissent, it was

Whether through song, license plate stickers or flags, police officers have been engaged in an ongoing propaganda campaign to convince the public that they are the “thin blue line” — that is, the only thing standing between good people and deadly chaos. But as we learned during two of the country’s deadliest school shootings —

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is devoting his summer to playing catch-up on the campaign trail. After he spent most of last year as the presumed toughest challenge to former President Donald Trump’s reclaiming the GOP nomination, his poll numbers have slowly eroded. You’d think, then, that given the chance to explain why he’d be a

Why Did Trump Hold on to Classified Documents? The Shocking Truth Revealed In the midst of the chaos and noise of our digital media world, it’s easy to overlook the important details. We’ve heard plenty about Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents and the legal consequences he faces. But what we haven’t explored enough is

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he thinks the current Supreme Court is “not normal” but called expanding the number of seats on it a “mistake.” “It’s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history. That’s what I meant by not normal,” Biden said during a live interview

Donald Trump served up one of his most putrid takes in recent memory Tuesday while responding to a Reuters report detailing the slaveholding lineage of many American politicians.The expansive project helps convey the breadth of slavery’s reach and how some political leaders’ family fortunes derived from owning humans. According to Reuters: Among 536 members of the last

Today’s Supreme Court decisions that say affirmative action admissions programs at the University of North Carolina, the flagship university of my state, and Harvard College “cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause“ represent a perjury by the court’s majority concerning America’s past, present, and future. The decisions claim that the injustice

At the heart of Thursday’s affirmative action ruling is a struggle over whether the Constitution is “colorblind.” In gutting affirmative action in higher education, the Republican-appointed majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, claims to think so.But the Democratic appointees dismantled that ignorant notion with two separate dissents spanning nearly 100 pages in total —