There is something unusual about the federal judiciary in Tennessee: It has 23 trial judges, but only three are women. Nearly 100 years have passed since the first female federal judge was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Yet, the federal judiciary is still primarily a male ...
Republicans have been stacking the U.S. Supreme Court for 40 years. They have been quite open about their strategy. The Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society have been keeping a list of judges who are anti-abortion. But there is hope. Congresspeople Ted Lieu and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...
Something wonderful happened to me recently. I spoke on the telephone to a human being at a credit card company. Well, not immediately. That would be too much to expect. I had to go through some of the hoops of the company’s automated phone system, beginning with, “Listen carefully ...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will face off again for the presidency in 2024. At least that’s what political insider Dick Morris tells anyone who will listen. He’s garnishing that prediction by claiming it will be “one of the greatest political rematches of all time.” Rematch? More ...
According to results from a new poll the American Psychiatric Association commissioned on the effects of disasters on mental health, half of Americans are worried about a potential loss of income, 35 percent are worried about gun violence, and 29 percent are anxious about natural disasters. ...
In an 1802 letter to Albert Gallatin, Thomas Jefferson said, “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress, and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, ...
