If you do not yet know, police have begun raiding houses and organizing sites for protesters in Minneapolis. Squads of 20-30 officers, in full SWAT gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, have entered a number of sites seeking “material that could be used to make bombs or incendiary devices” (The warrants listed, among other things “cardboard, ( Read more... )

On the Supreme Court front, several things have come to light about Judge Alito-some minor concerns about his failure to recuse himself when he should have (and said he would), recently released documents from the Reagan White House show him writing that he thinks there is no constitutional right to an abortion, and those same documents find he ( Read more... )

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