All posts tagged "Slate"

Legal experts are claiming that the U.S. Supreme Court may come to regret its emergency "shadow docket" decision allowing President Donald Trump to fire members of two federal boards -- a move that was considered illegal.

Without hearing the merits of the case, the court issued its ruling Thursday that permitted Trump to fire a member of the National Labor Relations Board and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that ensures federal employment decisions are not influenced by politics.

In a preview of Slate's "Amicus" podcast, legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern exclaimed, "He illegally fired people, and the Supreme Court just rubber-stamped it!"...

Federal judges have ruled that the current administration has defied the law in more than a dozen cases, including three major rulings this week, in the short time since Trump has taken office, according to reporting in The Washington Post.

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake wrote, "The total works out to one such finding about every four days," that the administration was found to have "either has violated the law or has probably done so."

The findings are for a variety of cases, including "Trump’s efforts to freeze federal funding, fire federal workers, restrict diversity efforts, overturn birthright citizenship and, most recently, limit transgender rights and deport certain immigrants without legal review."...

Reporter Elle Reeve, known for her deep dive into issues of white supremacy for Vice and CNN, wrote in a new article Monday that her childhood experience with a stalker armed her to handle fascists in today's political climate.

Reeve's article for Slate detailed how she learned to handle "evil" after years of dealing with her next-door neighbor, an angry man who stalked and harassed her family for years.

"I spent my entire teenage years at war," she wrote. "Not a real war, but a psychological war, followed by a legal one. It did not have a happy ending. At the time, when explaining it to my high school friends, I referred to the situation as “my evil neighbor.” Decades later, I understand what happened: My family had a stalker."...

Going down to the wire and the day after, I was all about gender and the election. I've linked some of the pieces earlier, but I thought I'd do a quick round-up and then take a break from posting for the rest of day.

Let me assist Slate in inflicting upon you possibly the worst cartoon ever created by a mainstream cartoonist - in a world where Chris Muir is a cartoonist.