Biden Limps Back Into the Spotlight. Plus, Harvard Lionizes Law Student Facing Criminal Case Over Assault of Israeli Classmate.

The prodigal great-grandfather returns: Democrats aren’t particularly enthusiastic about Joe Biden’s return to the national spotlight. The 82-year-old former president doesn’t seem to care, with the man sometimes referred to as “Sleepy Joe” delivering his first major address since leaving the White House at a conference hosted by Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled.

Plagiarism Accusations Threaten To Upend Democrats’ Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies

A federal judge in Puerto Rico issued a scathing order last week accusing Democratic prosecutors on the island of plagiarizing nearly their entire 241-page complaint that blamed oil companies for causing global warming. In the order Wednesday, district court judge Aida Delgado-Colon outlined how David Efron, the lead attorney representing Puerto Rico’s capital city San

Trump Critic Will Ruger Set To Join Administration

Ruger led the American Institute for Economic Research, which has savaged Trump’s tariff policies Trump administration appointee William Ruger (YouTube) A top critic of President Donald Trump’s economic policy agenda has been tapped for a senior post in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. William Ruger, the former president of the American Institute

The Geezer Is Back: Biden Says ‘Roughly 30 Percent’ of Americans Have ‘No Heart’ in Crotchety Return to National Spotlight

Joe Biden, the 82-year-old former president sometimes referred to as “Sleepy Joe,” rambled and occasionally shouted Monday evening during his first major speech since leaving the White House. Biden delivered the keynote address, billed as a defense of Social Security, at a conference in Chicago hosted by a disability rights organization. He also received the

Northwestern Vandals Spray-Paint Hamas Triangles, ‘Intifada Now’ on Campus Building Housing Holocaust Center

Anti-Semitic vandals used red paint to write “Death to Israel” and draw Hamas triangles on a Northwestern University building that houses the school’s Holocaust center as Jewish students observe Passover. Unity of Fields, a self-described “militant front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism” that has vowed to bring violence to America, shared photos of the

‘Brilliant Friend’: Federal Judge Already Facing Recusal Request in Immigration Lawsuit Has Strong Ties to Lawyer Involved in the Case

Araceli Martinez-Olguin faces recusal calls in case where her former employer is the lead plaintiff and her friend is their attorney L: Araceli Martinez-Olguin (Senate Judiciary Committee) R: (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) An immigration activist suing the Trump administration to restore funding for a $769 million immigration contract has described the judge presiding over the lawsuit

Harvard Law Publishes Fond Reminiscence From Student Facing Criminal Charges for Assaulting Jewish Classmate

‘As I look to the future, I do so with a full heart and a clear mind,’ Ibrahim Bharmal writes in blog post featured on HLS website Ibrahim Bharmal (Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia) Harvard Law School published a blog post from one of the students facing criminal charges for assaulting an