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Samuel Alito's Biterness Reachs Its Peak on a Negative Day for the Court usa-news The associate justice's unfathomable reasoning at the Trump immunity hearing was evident. One of the worst days in Supreme Court history revolves around him. Thinking about what Donald Trump would do to the nation's democratic institutions and norms on the day he took office in January 2017, I wrote these words: "Trump will destroy them, if keeping Trump on top requires it." or make an effort. He might not be successful. We put our faith in conservative justices to decide in favor of our institutions rather than Trump. This is what will happen, trust me. That optimism appeared well-founded in 2020 and 2021, as a number of conservative and liberal judges—some of whom Trump personally appointed—destroyed his attempts to il...

 Lessons learned from Day 8 of the Trump hush money trial On April 26, former president Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City for allegedly concealing payments for hush money. He is seated with attorney Todd Blanche, on the right.  With three days off coming up, jurors will have time to consider the testimony they heard during the first full week of the historic Donald Trump hush money trial. After more than ten hours of testimony spread over four days, David Pecker finally left the witness stand. During that time, the former CEO of American Media Inc. went into great detail about how he assisted Donald Trump in stifling criticism of him and sabotaging his opponents in the National Enquirer during the 2016 campaign. The back-and-forth over Pecker's tale prepared the audience for the upcoming fights between Stormy Daniels, an adult film star, and Michael Cohen, Trump...