Elizabeth Preza

1 week ago | alternet.org | Elizabeth Preza

President Donald Trump’s highly controversial head of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney appeared to suggest on social media that all Trump supporters could be eligible for pardons. Ed Martin, who has represented January 6 defendants and was an organizer for Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rallies that falsely alleged widespread fraud in the 2020 election, was installed as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Trump’s first day in office this year.

1 week ago | nationalmemo.com | Elizabeth Preza

A “trawl of genealogy records” has called into question Vice President JD Vance’s self-declared status as a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,” the New York Times reports.

1 week ago | smirkingchimp.com | Elizabeth Preza

— from Alternet A clinical psychologist who specializes in narcissists outlined three tactics to stop the “psychological state of volatile uncertainty” manufactured by President Donald Trump, noting as a nation, “we’re squarely in Criterion 1 of narcissistic personality disorder: ‘a grandiose sense of self-importance.’”"When narcissistic control seeps into leadership, it distorts truth, erodes trust and destabilizes institutions,” Dr. Jocelyn Sze wrote in an essay on HuffPost.

1 week ago | alternet.org | Elizabeth Preza

A “trawl of genealogy records” has called into question Vice President JD Vance’s self-declared status as a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,” the Times reports.

1 week ago | rawstory.com | Elizabeth Preza

The U.S. Supreme Court “has undermined lower courts” and “effectively allowed the president to neutralize some of the last remaining sites of independent expertise and authority inside the executive branch,” University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw warns. And doing so could have a catastrophic impact of the rule of law in the country.