Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she hopes to stay on the Supreme Court until the age of 90. "I'm now 85," Ginsburg said on Sunday. "My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years." She has already hired law clerks for at least two more terms.
Mueller has referred an inquiry to SDNY involving possible FARA violations with respect to work for Ukraine by Tony Podesta of the Podesta Group, Vin Weber of Mercury Public Affairs and Greg Craig, formerly of Skadden.
Emma Best, a freedom of information activist, has published a large cache of Twitter direct messages between Wikileaks and some of its most fervent supporters, including ones showing antisemitic sentiment from Wikileaks.
NEW: ICE has been detaining asylum-seekers on the basis of Russian Red Notices, which are notoriously politically motivated. “Backdoor extraditions” are the result.
“DHS & DOJ have more and more put themselves in the position of doing Putin’s dirty work.” https://t.co/aW0Q0CCWAE
SAN FRANCISCO — If there’s a point of universal agreement in California politics, it’s that the state’s housing crisis has spiraled to urgent proportions. But a ballot initiative designed to tackle the prohibitive cost of housing stands to fracture Democrats here, pitting some of the state’s top elected officials against one another and placing some of the party’s most influential donors and interest groups at odds.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon tore into the powerful Koch political network Sunday, accusing it of undermining President Donald Trump ahead of a midterm election that threatens to derail his presidency.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and other leaders are stepping into the battle over a proposed limit to the growth of for-hire vehicles, calling it a civil rights issue.
An 11-year-old girl’s marriage to a 41-year-old man — the father of her best friend — has reignited debate in the multiethnic democracy about the persistence of an age-old Islamic practice.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump and the publisher of The New York Times, A. G. Sulzberger, engaged in a fierce public clash on Sunday over Mr. Trump’s threats against journalism, after Mr. Sulzberger said the president misrepresented a private meeting and Mr. Trump accused The Times and other papers of putting lives at risk with irresponsible reporting.
I'm still on vacation, but did see this morning's economic number. Lots of stuff to say about why it's no big deal, but this picture captures most of it pic.twitter.com/Ae6imL6pod
