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Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh before delivering the State of the Union address at the US Capitol on February 5, 2019. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to halt the criminal proceeding against him in New York state court. Trump was convicted…

Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the “Stop the Steal” Rally on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has been talking for years about pardoning the people who took part in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, and he could do so on day one of his second term. In…

Optimus, also known as Tesla Bot, is a general-purpose robotic humanoid under development by Tesla, Inc., shown in Hong Kong. | Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images At the end of every year, journalists like to look back and see where our predictions held up or fell flat, what were the year’s biggest events,…

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Todd Blanche, the criminal defense lawyer in his New York hush money trial, to hold the No. 2 role in the Justice Department. | Mark Peterson/Getty Images Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), an accused sex offender known for his firm loyalty to Trump, will not lead the Department of Justice….

Trump supporters wear matching T-shirts outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse as former US President Donald Trump appeared for his arraignment on June 13, 2023 in Miami, Florida. | Alon Skuy/Getty Images A federal judge in Florida on Monday threw out the criminal case focused on how former President Donald Trump…

Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh (right) and Neil Gorsuch at a White House ceremony in 2018. | Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images All of the United States’ most important governing institutions are failing at once. Congress, of course, has long been barely able to function. Every year, it struggles merely to fund the rest of…

Former President Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts before the 2020 State of the Union address. | Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if…

These headlines seem to have had an impact. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Donald Trump has been a convicted felon for a little over a week and he has already lost a small but significant chunk of support, according to the polls.  In recent days, the New York Times and Sienna College recontacted 2,000…