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President Joe Biden is taking fresh steps to help keep gas prices from climbing. For Republicans to see this as “disgusting” and “disgraceful” is bizarre.

As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day....

It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy. Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court...

The judge kept the former president on a tight leash when jurors were in the courtroom....

The GOP’s old guard know what’s happening here. President Ronald Reagan must be turning over in his grave....

During a debate Monday on Legislature Bill 441, a bill aimed at keeping obscene material out of K-12 schools, Republican state Sen. Steve Halloran read a passage from Alice Sebold’s memoir, “Lucky,” that depicts a rape scene. For some reason, he also decided to drop his colleague’s name into his reading of the excerpt....

Why are Sens. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn and Thom Tillis so upset about an overdue judicial reform? The answer is obvious....

The Trump-branded Republican Party is less interested in promoting voting by mail than in legal challenges aimed at voting systems....

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper joins the MSNBC panel moments after Mark Robinson wins the state’s GOP primary for governor. Cooper says “Mark Robinson does not reflect North Carolina’s values.”

As Trump heads toward the nomination, rural voters are once again the foundation of his support....

“This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend,” says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial. “And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it’s something that’s unclear in the...

To be sure, she still has plenty of time and opportunity to cause mischief. Indeed, on the ever-important timing point, a scheduling conference Friday may signal her latest thoughts about when the case will actually see trial. She previously set a May 20 date, but there’s reason to think that could get pushed back — the...

The white supremacist right is penetrating the mainstream right with increasing ease....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12204794...

Ruby Franke, a once-popular online mom influencer with millions of followers, has been sentenced to four one- to 15-year terms in prison for child abuse....

Judge Engoron just handed Trump 355 million reminders that he is not, in fact, above our great city's laws.