President Joe Biden reached a milestone last week with the Senate’s confirmation of Angela Martinez and Dena Coggins, the 200th and 201st judges Biden has nominated to the federal judiciary thus far. Martinez will preside in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, and Coggins will take the bench in the Eastern District of California. ...

By Robert Downen, The Texas Tribune From his booth in the exhibit hall of the Texas GOP’s 2024 convention, Steve Hotze saw an army of God assembled before him. For four decades, Hotze, an indicted election fraud conspiracy theorist, has helmed hardline anti-abortion movements and virulently homophobic campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights, comparing...

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Campaign Action

Donald Trump is an enigma inside a riddle wrapped in 34 felony convictions, so it’s difficult to work out exactly where he goes from here. Conventional wisdom tells us the presidential campaign of a traitorous Putin sympathizer with this much legal baggage should officially be over, but this is Trump we’re talking about. The dude makes no apologies,...

The punditry, propelled by a thousand conservative gaslighters, want you to believe that Donald Trump’s felony conviction is good for his campaign. According to them, the conviction is energizing Trump supporters and helping him raise money.  The latter point might or might not be true, but does anyone think that Trump supporters need to be “energized”?...

By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona.   Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access—and,...