Elie Mystal explains why he thinks Chief Justice John Roberts is a “far more dangerous” threat to democracy than Donald Trump. “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House. It has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.”
Lonnie Bunch will leave the Smithsonian at year’s end after sustained White House scrutiny over how the institution presents American history to the public. Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution’s secretary since 2019, announced his departure with “very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude,” The Associated Press reported. The Smithsonian said he will leave at the end of […] The post Lonnie Bunch to retire as Smithsonian chief after Trump history dispute appeared first on American Almanac .
Lonnie Bunch will leave the Smithsonian at year’s end after sustained White House scrutiny over how the institution presents American history to the public. Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution’s secretary since 2019, announced his departure with “very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude,” The Associated Press reported . The Smithsonian said he will leave at the end of 2026. His retirement follows a widening dispute between President Donald Trump’s administration and Smithsonian leaders over museum exhibits, educational materials and the telling of American history. The clash has centered heavily on the National Museum of American History in Washington. Bunch did not give a specific reason for leaving. That distinction…Open
By John L. Smith FDR is to Obama as John Roberts is to Felix Frankfurter.
Chief Justice John Roberts built his reputation as an institutionalist while authoring some of the most radical expansions of executive power in modern U.S. history. Elie Mystal of The Nation puts it bluntly: “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House – it has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.” Mystal says Democrats must pursue Supreme Court expansion. “If you don’t control the Supreme Court, you control nothing.”
Courting authoritarianism with a rapacious Trump.
Completion of the project comes as construction resumes on the White House Ballroom, a passion project for Trump that has faced legal scrutiny. The Supreme Court recently gave the green light for the administration to continue building.
The Supreme Court gave a green light to the new White House ballroom, but several of the president’s other Washington projects remain stalled.
The Supreme Court handed President Trump a huge win on his new White House East Wing and ballroom, and images of the site show construction is moving ahead quickly. CNN’s Betsy Klein reports.
MS NOW’s Lisa Rubin explains everything you need to know about the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Trump to continue building his ballroom and why, ultimately, the courts may not be able to stop him.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been in the majority in divided cases more times than any other chief since 1953. But not this time.