President Joe Biden is actively governing during the last few months of his presidency. The 46th president announced on Thursday over $1.4 billion in funding dedicated to climate change initiatives. The spending includes the allotment of $1.2 billion in funding by the Department of Transportation to empower states to use “cleaner construction materials for transportation […]
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) broke with the Democratic Party to endorse President-elect Donald Trump’s move to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump tapped Kennedy to helm the federal health agency on Thursday, invoking instant condemnation from top Democrats who have characterized the long-time environmental lawyer as […]
Two Supreme Court justices from near-opposite ends of the ideological spectrum sat down for a rare keynote discussion at the Federalist Society’s annual Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C., discussing the “common ground” they share. Justice Neil Gorsuch, the first justice nominated under President-elect Donald Trump, joined retired Justice Stephen Breyer, a nominee of […]
If the new horror film Heretic were just about the dark side of religion, it would be smart and entertaining, though not entirely original. After all, the horror genre has dissected this subject on screen for decades. What makes Heretic different is its chilling depiction of what can happen when we disregard our own boundaries […]
President-elect Donald Trump is counting on a handful of loyal allies who leaped to his side during his 2019 impeachment trial to overhaul Washington, D.C.’s biggest federal bureaucracies. He has nominated four House Republicans who were on his 2019 impeachment defense team to head critical agencies over the past week. Trump selected Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to […]
Not long ago, the most famous lawyers in America tended to be found in New York City — constitutional theorists, corporate litigators, and kings of torts — or practicing criminal law in the provinces. Now, as the realms of influence and press attention have shifted, the superlawyers are largely concentrated in Washington, where their featured […]
