#partisanship

#partisanship

Newly released documents from the files of a late justice show how the Supreme Court was concerned with how to avoid appearing political when it ruled unanimously against President Bill Clinton's attempts to avoid lawsuits in the White House 25 years ago.The decades-old documents provide a fresh look at how worried the court was in the late 1990s about being cast as yet another political institution in a Washington that was becoming increasingly divided among partisan lines.

A federal appeals court has upheld several provisions of a restrictive election law in Florida that was passed by the GOP-controlled legislature in 2021.A divided panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed most of a ruling by a trial judge last year that said the provisions in question violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by intentionally targeting Black voters.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The House of Commons has paid tribute to icon for Parliament Betty Boothroyd.Women MPs from both sides of the House led tributes to Baroness Boothroyd, the first and so far only female Commons speaker, after her death aged 93.

Family estrangements ― a term used broadly to describe situations in which someone cuts off all communication with one or more relatives ― seem to be more common than ever.Over one-quarter of adults responding to a U.S. survey by the Cornell Family Reconciliation Project reported being estranged from a family member.

Gary Hart, the former Democratic senator from Colorado, still vividly remembers the first meeting of the Church committee, a landmark Senate investigative panel created in 1975 to examine abuses committed by the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and other intelligence agencies.Hart had just been elected to his first term-he was only thirty-eight-but he had been chosen to be one of the eight members of the bipartisan committee.

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to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.Tracy K. Smith was named Poet Laureate in 2017, at the beginning of the fierce partisan divide of the Trump era.She quickly turned to her craft to address the deep political divisions the election laid bare, putting together a collection called " American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time."

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to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.For Washington insiders and people in the media, Politico publishes some of the wonkiest reporting inside the Beltway.It's not what you'd call a mass-market publication, but it's highly influential-it was Politico that obtained and published Samuel Alito's draft opinion of the Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.