Evening Roundup, April 24
Norm & Jen's Substack Live about today's breaking legal news; Marvin Kalb; Tim Mak; Shalise Manza Young; Michael Franklin; Azza Cohen; Mary Anne Franks; Nick Anderson; and Tammy Kupperman Thorp
BREAKING: Major Legal Wins
Multiple injunctions have been ruled on today in cases focused on immigration, education, and voting rights—including one case litigated by our own Publisher, Norm Eisen. Norm and Jen got on shortly after to explain the extraordinary rulings…all of them in favor of upholding our democracy. Watch, enjoy, and please subscribe to receive more updates like this one.
60 Minutes is Losing Time
By Marvin Kalb
Like an old politician with authoritarian ambitions, President Donald Trump has been at war with CBS’s 60 Minutes for several months, determined to contain and ultimately control one of the best television news programs of all time.
Where in the World is Tim Mak? Peace talks in Ukraine & Steve Witkoff's ties to sanctioned Ukrainian businessman
Today, Tim Mak joins us from London where negotiators from the U.S., Ukraine, and Europe met Wednesday to discuss the ceasefire proposal in Ukraine. Neither Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, nor Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to Russia, showed up.
What’s happening to undocumented immigrants is not new to Black Americans
By Shalise Manza Young
Latino migrants are the target now, but when Trump suggested sending American citizens to El Salvador, alarm bells immediately went off for Black people.
The NFL draft shows us where the people are.
By Michael Franklin
Now we just have to show up.
The NFL draft is one of the rare cultural moments in America that brings people together—across race, class, geography, and ideology—to celebrate something collectively.
Split Screen: The politics of Sarah Palin photos
When Sen. John McCain announced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate in August 2008, she catapulted overnight from relative obscurity into intense national scrutiny. As a cinematographer who analyzes the visual politics of how we frame women leaders, I've been revisiting the 2008 campaign’s visual record. What I found was a masterclass in…
Are the courts fed up? Dr. Mary Anne Franks on the legitimacy of the judiciary
Today was a massive day in the legal world. Multiple preliminary injunctions were dropped in litigation involving the Trump Administration. The cases cover a variety of political topics including education, immigration, and voting rights.
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Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. Find him on Substack at nickanderson.substack.com.
Book removal enables the politicization of our Navy and Marine Corps
By Tammy Kupperman Thorp
The U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) released a list of 381 books it removed from the library — books by American luminaries such as Maya Angelou (“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”), books about racism, books about white privilege, extremism, gender identity and roles, the Holocaust.
Denying or revising history doesn’t erase history, but it does limit intellectual discourse.
Just want to make sure that you post lots of photos from your Saturday (pre-White House Correspondence Dinner) party, that you 2, representing Contrarians, are hosting!
I don't know if you answered this previously: Can the Supreme Court reverse last year's decision to allow a president unfettered lawlessness?