2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (670+ words) Will the Federal Communications Commission ever actually punish Disney or CBS for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s belief that those networks are in violation of the agency’s “equal time” rule? We may never know the answer to that question, and that…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (291+ words) A set of dueling federal court decisions sets the stage for the kind of legal flurry we can expect between now and the midterms. As Kate Riga reported for TPM, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who oversees appeals for the federal judicial…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (239+ words) U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday lifted an injunction that was the last bulwark against President Donald Trump’s order to let the federal government take over large parts of voting by mail. But the executive order is unlikely to remain…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) Talking Points Memo Trump’s Idiotic Trade War Is a Bigger Political Opening Than You Think As a general matter, people who write about or strategize about politics greatly overestimate our collective ability to shape how an election will play out,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (307+ words) Yesterday evening, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority found that a district court order blocking the executive action was issued too early, finding that the states who had challenged it brought their case when the harms were still hypothetical, before the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (666+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Saturday’s extraordinary speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was ostensibly about the collapse of U.S. trade talks, but it was really about…...

3+ week, 5+ min ago   (256+ words) A few more thoughts on the collapse of US-Canadian trade negotiations and the over-the-top US predation that led to it. (See my earlier post here.) Here’s a portion of an analysis piece from the Toronto Star … Doing a deal under…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1061+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Today we begin with a particularly striking example of the bleak inanity of executive branch immigration courts under President Trump, first flagged by Politico’s…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (556+ words) “We’ll see what happens,” Blanche said when asked about involving the high court in the floundering campaign that began under fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Absolutely, it’s a possibility.” When NBC’s Welker asked Blanche if it’d suffered enough legal defeats…...