Wisconsin judge threatens courtroom boycott over Hannah Dugan arrest
Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham says she will refuse to hold court if she does not receive state support following the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan.
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The Pronoun Wars
It’s always been allowed, and always will be,To introduce new words, fresh from the mint,Just as in forests in the changing yearNew leaves come in and the oldest drop away,And the new ones bloom and prosper in their time. —Horace, “The Art of Poetry” Change, relentless change, is the keynote of language. A young person
Whistling Past the White House: How the Democratic Party’s Lack of ‘Balls’ Caused the Most Predictable Political Crisis in History
REVIEW: ”Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History’ by Chris Whipple Getty Images The amount of effort that went into helping Joe Biden prepare for the CNN debate on June 27, 2024, is farcical in retrospect. Hell, it was farcical at the time. The campaign built a
And My App! Palantir’s Quest To Give AI a Moral Purpose
In a hole in the ground there lived some hobbits—not a nasty, dirty, wet hole. Silicon Valley isn’t known for those. But a respectable place in a respectable town—and yet, somehow, these hobbits ended up going out on a great adventure. They may have lost the neighbors’ respect, but they gained…well, you will see whether
Deportation Cases Spark Debate About Role of Judiciary in Foreign Affairs
The Trump administration told a judge that ‘foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines.’ Ongoing battles over the legality of the Trump administration’s deportations of illegal immigrants have fostered conditions for a constitutional showdown questioning where judicial authority ends and the executive’s begins. In Washington, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has suggested that in order
Congress Weighs In on FBI Arrest of Wisconsin Judge
Democrats back Judge Dugan, while Republicans cautioned others who attempt to obstruct federal immigration enforcement. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weighed in on the April 25 arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan. FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that Judge Dugan was arrested on charges of obstruction based on
The Washington Hilton’s decades-long history with D.C. politics
Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people. “So, if it’s a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole,” Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive