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Mark Meadows' wife: More voter fraud?

Debbie Meadows, whose PAC backs Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, reportedly filed three false voter forms

Salon · Mar 23, 2022

Former Trump chief Meadows' voter registration in question

Mark Meadows, who as chief of staff to President Donald Trump promoted his lies of mass voter fraud, is facing increasing scrutiny about his own voter registration status

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2022

Did Mark Meadows commit voter fraud?

Meadows claimed to live in a “dive trailer” in North Carolina where he doesn’t appear to have spent a single night

Salon · Mar 7, 2022

New Yorker teams with Celadon for book on Jan. 6 report

The New Yorker is collaborating with a division of Macmillan Publishers on a book edition of the House Select Committee’s planned report on the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol a year ago by supporters of then-President Donald Trump

The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2022

AOC: Democracy in U.S. could end

In New Yorker interview, Ocasio-Cortez expresses concerns that U.S. may not be a democracy 10 years from now

Salon · Feb 15, 2022

Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Very real risk’ US democracy won’t exist in 10 years

Efforts by Republicans to restrict voting rights could result in return to Jim Crow era, says progressive in New Yorker interview

The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2022

This lawyer should be world-famous for his battle with Chevron – but he’s in jail

Chevron is accused of polluting the Amazon for 26 years. The only people who’ve paid the price are a human rights lawyer and those whose land was poisoned

The Guardian - US · Feb 8, 2022

Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’

Since his early days in the underground comix scene, Spiegelman has reveled in ‘saying the unsayable’ and subverting convention

The Guardian - US · Feb 5, 2022

David Lat on the Crystal Clanton Matter

As usual, Lat puts it very well in his "Original Jurisdiction" Substack newsletter (I've paid for a subscription, and highly recommend it): Last fall, [Chief Judge Pryor] was widely criticized for hiring an allegedly racist law clerk—specifically, Crystal Clanton, now a 3L at George Mason aka Scalia Law. According to…

Reason · Jan 18, 2022