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A Day After Ketanji Brown’s Confirmation, Maine Could Get Its First Black Justice In High Court

Judge Rick Lawrence’s confirmation hearing comes a day after the U.S. Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

April 8, 2022
News

Bipartisan Group of Senators Work On Election Reform..But Not the Way You’re Thinking

The changes are targeting the Electoral Count Act of 1887, specifically.

By

Murjani Rawls

Published

January 26, 2022
Politics

The Filibuster Is White Supremacy

I do not love America. To be fair, I don’t quite know what “America” is. Is it defined by the piece of paper that once counted me as three-fifths human or a series of borders on a map? Is America defined by the laws that govern it, or is it the people governed by the…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 22, 2021
Politics

Sen. Angus King: Want to Stop Coronavirus? Make Netflix and Disney Plus Free

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) has an idea that’s so stupid it actually might be goddamn brilliant! In a letter Monday, King asked executives at Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO Max and Hulu to make their streaming services free during the holidays to get people to stay home and therefore curb the spread of the…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

December 16, 2020