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Ginni Thomas urged Arizona Republicans to overturn 2020 result – report

Wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas emailed six days after election already called for Joe Biden

The Guardian - US · May 20, 2022

The Trump loyalist who could be a major threat to US democracy

Doug Mastriano promoted Trump’s voter fraud myth – if he becomes governor, could he block a result he doesn’t like?

The Guardian - US · May 20, 2022

4 Democratic women legislators to watch in a post-Roe America

We're in the midst of a generational political moment.

Axios · May 4, 2022

Why does Google hate mothers?

Episode 404 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason · Apr 26, 2022

There's a growing movement to build wooden skyscrapers

"Mass timber" is billed as greener than steel and concrete.

Axios · Apr 26, 2022

Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz review – life-changing moments of love and death

A memoir by the Pulitzer-winning New Yorker writer offers a fresh look at the most profound experiences of our lives

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2022

Ex-CIA analyst recounts torture in secret Thai prison

WASHINGTON: In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him…

Bangkok Post · Apr 20, 2022

Exclusive-Ex-CIA analyst says she ‘got bloodied’ in tangled U.S. war on Al Qaeda

In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.

Reuters · Apr 20, 2022

Amid scandal, Mark Meadows purged from North Carolina voter rolls

RALEIGH, N.C. — Elections officials purged Mark Meadows, chief of staff for former President Donald Trump and a former North Carolina congressman, from state voter rolls this week after a Macon County official confirmed he was also registered to vote in Virginia.

Tribune News Service · Apr 14, 2022

POINT: Clarence Thomas’ conflicts put our whole constitutional system at risk

Federal law requires Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from cases in which their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” Unlike other judges, however, Supreme Court justices decide themselves whether their impartiality is up for questioning.

Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2022