As Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York neared its end, attentive observers sensed the ex-president was likely to found guilty. While prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s team presented a clear, tight, well-supported case, the ex-president’s attorneys were all over the map. Whether that was due to poor lawyering or their client’s insistence on denying everything […]

In Washington during the pandemic, I passed by the Supreme Court building often on the way to the Library of Congress. One of the classically inspired “marble temples” built well into the 20th century, it’s also one of the largest, constructed long after the White House and Capitol became symbols of government known throughout the […]

The session ended with confusion and a load of legislation not acted on.

Son of a union longshoreman, Brennan never strayed far from his birthplace, dying just a few blocks from the Kellogg Street tenement where he grew up, the columnist writes.

In Piscataquis and Somerset counties, the columnist saw people uniting under a common purpose.

The awesome power of state initiative-and-referendum questions was on display this week via two rulings released by the Florida Supreme Court on the same day. In response to a six-week abortion ban enacted by the Legislature, as requested by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the seven-member court — all appointed by DeSantis — ruled 6-1 the […]