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RSN: Nina Turner: "Our Plan Is to Transform the Democratic Party"

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17 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News THIS WILL BE THE SHORTEST FUNDRAISER IN 3 YEARS. WILL IT BE THE WORST? - We have to hurry up on these donations. Everyone is gratified that the fundraiser will be shorter this month. To make that work we - really - need to get going! With urgency. - Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS | Nina Turner: "Our Plan Is to Transform the Democratic Party"  Jacobin Excerpt: "As for Our Revolution, any old blue just won't do. We need people with a certain type of commitment, so that when they get these seats they will put people power towards that commitment." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: Jill Abramson | Now We Know the Outrageous Scale of the Trumps' White House Dividend

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17 June 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News INDIFFERENCE CAN BE LETHAL | Over the years we have made a lot of powerful enemies and withstood their collective wrath. Indifference to the organization’s funding by the community it serves is by every measure a far more dangerous enemy than all the others combined. Indifference: the true enemy. In all things. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Jill Abramson | Now We Know the Outrageous Scale of the Trumps' White House Dividend  Jill Abramson, Guardian UK Abramson writes: "I'm feeling nostalgic for Hillary's Goldman Sachs speaking fees. Remember when we got our ethical knickers in a twist over Clinton's $225,000 (£170,000) Wall Street speeches?" READ MORE Roger Stone. (photo: Bridget Mulcahy/Politico) EXCERPT: The meeting took place two months earlier than federal officials have said a counterintelligence operation wa...

RSN: Juan Cole | Americans Won't 'Sit Up' for Great Leader Trump, Because They Don't Approve of Him

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16 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News "TODAY" REALLY MATTERS FOR DONATIONS - We have been on a roll for the past few days and we are making badly needed progress. Still only a small fraction of you have responded. Today is a critical day for donations. Very important now. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Juan Cole | Americans Won't 'Sit Up' for Great Leader Trump, Because They Don't Approve of Him  Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "Trump on Friday added to the astronomic tally of his bizarre brainfarts by saying of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, 'He speaks, and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.'" READ MORE With each passing day, it's increasingly clear this investigation is neither made up nor built on fake news. (photo: Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast) Donald Trump: Russia's Biggest Fan Frederi...

RSN: Bill McKibben | Big Oil CEOs Needed a Climate Change Reality Check. The Pope Delivered

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16 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News "TODAY" REALLY MATTERS FOR DONATIONS - We have been on a roll for the past few days and we are making badly needed progress. Still only a small fraction of you have responded. Today is a critical day for donations. Very important now. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Bill McKibben | Big Oil CEOs Needed a Climate Change Reality Check. The Pope Delivered  Bill McKibben, Guardian UK McKibben writes: "You kind of expect popes to talk about spiritual stuff, kind of the way you expect chefs to discuss spices or tree surgeons to make small talk about overhanging limbs." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: Barbara McQuade | Why Mueller Really Wanted to Put Manafort in Jail

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16 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News "TODAY" REALLY MATTERS FOR DONATIONS - We have been on a roll for the past few days and we are making badly needed progress. Still only a small fraction of you have responded. Today is a critical day for donations. Very important now. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Barbara McQuade | Why Mueller Really Wanted to Put Manafort in Jail  Barbara McQuade, The Daily Beast McQuade writes: "President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was in court today to review his bond status and to be arraigned on a superseding indictment." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: Daniel José Camacho | When the US Government Snatches Children, It's Biblical to Resist the Law

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17 June 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE’LL CRASH AND BURN FOR SURE AT THIS PACE - Donations at this point are barely trickling in and quite small on average. We absolutely will not meet our operating costs for June at this pace. Again, what we are talking about is 50 readers out of 30,000 on any given day saying, "sure, I’ll support this organization, what they’re doing is worth it." In solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Daniel José Camacho | When the US Government Snatches Children, It's Biblical to Resist the Law  Daniel José Camacho, Guardian UK Camacho writes: "This week, attorney general Jeff Sessions quoted the bible to justify a cruel policy that is, in fact, not a required law: the forced separation of immigrant families at the border." READ MORE Robert Mueller. (photo: Getty Images) Can the President Be Indicted? There's Significant Re...

National Law Journal

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT   |   NEWS Chief Justice Roberts Speaks Favorably About Judiciary's New Law Clerk Plan This Week's Top Stories LAW FIRM COMPETITION   |   NEWS DC Law Firms Watch and Wait as Associate Raises Spread ATTORNEY RATES AND ARRANGEMENTS   |   PODCAST Landing Big Clients: Top Women Partners Reveal How It's Done Two Surprise Supreme Court Orders Show Why Recusals Matter Two U.S. Supreme Court orders on Monday—one involving Justice Anthony Kennedy and the other Chief Justice John Roberts...  Read More Cravath Sets New High in Associate Salary Race The new associate salary scale set by Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy last week has been surpassed by Cravath, Swaine...  Read More Gorsuch, Embracing Originalism, Mustered No Support in Solo Dissent "The contracts clause categorically prohibits states from passing 'any ... law impairing the obligation of cont...