Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The consequences of a U.S. president encouraging extralegal violence.(Illustration by Hannah Yoest / photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Twice in a 24-hour period, the president of the United States took to Twitter to endorse violence. The first time, at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, he in which a supporter says, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”Then, early Friday morning, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis and turned violent, Donald Trump that “THUGS” were “dishonoring” Mr. Floyd’s memory. He concluded with a...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The consequences of a U.S. president encouraging extralegal violence.(Illustration by Hannah Yoest / photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Twice in a 24-hour period, the president of the United States took to Twitter to endorse violence. The first time, at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, he in which a supporter says, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”Then, early Friday morning, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis and turned violent, Donald Trump that “THUGS” were “dishonoring” Mr. Floyd’s memory. He concluded with a...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,His response to Bob Woodward doesn’t fly.(Shutterstock)Wednesday’s revelation that President Trump knowingly lied to the American people about the seriousness of COVID-19 was both shocking and yet also unsurprising.Throughout the early months of the pandemic, he repeatedly the public that COVID-19 was no more of a threat than the ordinary flu “looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”At the same time, he Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward a very different story. Weeks before the...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,His response to Bob Woodward doesn’t fly.(Shutterstock)Wednesday’s revelation that President Trump knowingly lied to the American people about the seriousness of COVID-19 was both shocking and yet also unsurprising.Throughout the early months of the pandemic, he repeatedly the public that COVID-19 was no more of a threat than the ordinary flu “looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”At the same time, he Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward a very different story. Weeks before the...WW…

AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Trump Administration’s 2020-21 execution spree came to an end on Friday with the . Higgs was the 13th person put to death since federal executions resumed in July, 2020.A close look at those executed over the last six months shows that the federal death penalty is not reserved for the “” as some of its proponents contend. Instead it targets the most disadvantaged and disabled of those charged with capital crimes.AdvertisementHaving an intellectual disability, a mental illness, or a history of childhood abuse and trauma turns out to be a very...…AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Trump Administration’s 2020-21 execution spree came to an end on Friday with the . Higgs was the 13th person put to death since federal executions resumed in July, 2020.A close look at those executed over the last six months shows that the federal death penalty is not reserved for the “” as some of its proponents contend. Instead it targets the most disadvantaged and disabled of those charged with capital crimes.AdvertisementHaving an intellectual disability, a mental illness, or a history of childhood abuse and trauma turns out to be a very...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldIn disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump has fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes officeLast modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 00.18 ESTLast week, Trump and Barr executed even though his crime was committed when he was just 18 years old, and they killed even though his IQ put him in the intellectually disabled category.Trump and Barr have turned the solemn process of punishment into an assembly line of death. In doing so they have shown themselves to be indifferent to history, inattentive to...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldIn disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump has fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes officeLast modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 00.18 ESTLast week, Trump and Barr executed even though his crime was committed when he was just 18 years old, and they killed even though his IQ put him in the intellectually disabled category.Trump and Barr have turned the solemn process of punishment into an assembly line of death. In doing so they have shown themselves to be indifferent to history, inattentive to...WW…

provides funding as a member of The Conversation US.The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and the firing squad.Set to take effect on Christmas Eve, the new regulations an alternative to lethal injections – the method – were announced by the Justice Department on Nov. 27.The federal move follows the example of several states, , that have revived alternative methods in the face of challenges to their lethal injection protocols and needed in the process.It is not clear whether...…provides funding as a member of The Conversation US.The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and the firing squad.Set to take effect on Christmas Eve, the new regulations an alternative to lethal injections – the method – were announced by the Justice Department on Nov. 27.The federal move follows the example of several states, , that have revived alternative methods in the face of challenges to their lethal injection protocols and needed in the process.It is not clear whether...WW…

AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Trump administration on Friday to carry out the death penalty and use archaic methods of execution that would prove to be a national embarrassment if used in Trump’s waning days as president.At a time when and have condemned capital punishment because of its cruel assault on human dignity, Trump and his cronies have again thumbed their noses at the world and at common decency.AdvertisementThe new rule is worded with deceptive simplicity: “Federal executions are to be carried out by lethal injection or by any other manner prescribed by the law of the State in...…AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Trump administration on Friday to carry out the death penalty and use archaic methods of execution that would prove to be a national embarrassment if used in Trump’s waning days as president.At a time when and have condemned capital punishment because of its cruel assault on human dignity, Trump and his cronies have again thumbed their noses at the world and at common decency.AdvertisementThe new rule is worded with deceptive simplicity: “Federal executions are to be carried out by lethal injection or by any other manner prescribed by the law of the State in...WW…

AdvertisementAdvertisementLast week, the Trump administration that it would continue to carry out executions in the days and weeks leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, with the last one now scheduled just five days before Biden takes office on Jan. 20, 2021. This bloodthirsty decision is another and particularly grotesque way in which President Donald Trump and his Justice Department are defying the norms and conventions for modern presidential transitions.The Death Penalty Information Center that the last time an outgoing administration did anything remotely similar...…AdvertisementAdvertisementLast week, the Trump administration that it would continue to carry out executions in the days and weeks leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, with the last one now scheduled just five days before Biden takes office on Jan. 20, 2021. This bloodthirsty decision is another and particularly grotesque way in which President Donald Trump and his Justice Department are defying the norms and conventions for modern presidential transitions.The Death Penalty Information Center that the last time an outgoing administration did anything remotely similar...WW…

Attorney General William Barr informed the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey S. Berman, on Saturday that the president had him after he resisted Barr’s attempt to him the night before. At first, Berman that he could not be let go by the Attorney General and that he would not depart until a successor was confirmed by the Senate: until then “our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.”President Trump added to the chaos when he told reporters that Berman’s fate was “all up to the attorney general…I wasn’t involved.”The Trump Administration had chosen Berman,...…Attorney General William Barr informed the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey S. Berman, on Saturday that the president had him after he resisted Barr’s attempt to him the night before. At first, Berman that he could not be let go by the Attorney General and that he would not depart until a successor was confirmed by the Senate: until then “our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.”President Trump added to the chaos when he told reporters that Berman’s fate was “all up to the attorney general…I wasn’t involved.”The Trump Administration had chosen Berman,...WW…

provides funding as a member of The Conversation US.What happens to the rule of law when even the top law enforcement official in the land refuses to obey it?That’s the question raised in a stinging rebuke of Attorney General William Barr and his Justice Department that came from an unusual source earlier this year: Federal Appeals Court Judge Frank Easterbrook.Easterbrook for .The order in question concerned the case of Jorge Baez-Sanchez, a man living in the U.S. illegally, who was convicted of aggravated battery of a police officer and scheduled to be . Easterbrook quoted a letter from...…provides funding as a member of The Conversation US.What happens to the rule of law when even the top law enforcement official in the land refuses to obey it?That’s the question raised in a stinging rebuke of Attorney General William Barr and his Justice Department that came from an unusual source earlier this year: Federal Appeals Court Judge Frank Easterbrook.Easterbrook for .The order in question concerned the case of Jorge Baez-Sanchez, a man living in the U.S. illegally, who was convicted of aggravated battery of a police officer and scheduled to be . Easterbrook quoted a letter from...WW…

This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldThe US attorney general seems determined to turn the DoJ into a fully fledged arm of the Trump re-election teamLast modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 18.56 ESTA week before the motion to dismiss in the Flynn case, Trump had that a prosecution like Flynn’s “should never be allowed to happen … again”. The day that the motion was filed, Trump that the Obama administration officials had targeted Flynn to try to “take down a president”. In co-ordination, Trump campaign manager BradParscale issued a saying: “[T]he Obama-Biden...…This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldThe US attorney general seems determined to turn the DoJ into a fully fledged arm of the Trump re-election teamLast modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 18.56 ESTA week before the motion to dismiss in the Flynn case, Trump had that a prosecution like Flynn’s “should never be allowed to happen … again”. The day that the motion was filed, Trump that the Obama administration officials had targeted Flynn to try to “take down a president”. In co-ordination, Trump campaign manager BradParscale issued a saying: “[T]he Obama-Biden...WW…