The Pill: In response to a Biden administration application, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. issued a temporary stay allowing the  abortion pill mifepristone to remain available while the Supreme Court decides whether to grant a formal stay of a lower court decision. A district judge in Texas …

Secrets and Lies: A member of the Air National Guard in Massachusetts identified as Jack Teixeira has been arrested by the FBI in the leak of classified documents that were posted on the social media platform Discord.   The 21-year-old Teixeira, an …

Fox in the Courthouse: The Delaware judge sitting on the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News yesterday blasted Fox lawyers, saying he would sanction the company and launch an investigation into their failures to tell the truth, particularly about the role …

The Shooting Gallery: Justin Jones, the Tennessee legislator expelled last week for taking part in a gun control demonstration on the House floor, was reinstated by the Nashville City Council yesterday afternoon just hours after yet another mass shooting took four …

The War Room: The Justice Department has opened an investigation into how a cache of secret documents revealing and detailing US involvement in the Ukraine war ended up posted online for all to see.  The 100-plus pages of slides and briefing documents …

Texas Law: A federal judge in Texas appointed by Donald Trump has invalidated the 23-year-old Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortion.  Only about an hour later a federal judge in Washington state ordered …

The Tennessee Three:  With demonstrators demanding that the Tennessee legislature act on guns in the after the most recent school shooting in which three 9-year-olds and three staff members were killed, the immediate action the legislature took was to expel two …

Trumped: Former Vice President Mike Pence announced that he’s not going to fight the subpoena calling him to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The presumption is that Pence has a lot …

Law and Order: A scowling former President Donald Trump yesterday pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to 34 counts of filing false business records to cover up another crime, lying to tax authorities, a low level felony that carries a maximum …

Law and Order:  Every New York City police officer is in uniform and on alert for the arraignment this afternoon of former Donald Trump, an event that will last minutes and go down in history when he becomes the first former …