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The Supreme Court chief justice’s decision on Trump’s immunity puts the myth of his institutionalism out of its misery, once and for all. Roberts’ opinion will have more dire consequences, as it “invents an atextual, ahistorical, and unjustifiable immunity that puts the President above the law.” Get full access to LA Progressive at laprogressive.substack.com/subscribe

Is undecipherable political language and a complicated electoral process destroying democracy? Some might argue that these complexities are unavoidable, but the more cynical among us suspect this is by design. Every four years, the airwaves across the United States are bombarded with election lingo. We're flooded with a language that disappears the day after the general election. Words like primar...

Guantanamo Bay prison is still operational. And YES, the United States is still imprisoning post-9/11 suspects who have been there for decades. The former UN Special Rapporteur, Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, sat down with me to talk about something most of us had no idea was still an issue: there are still prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, even though more than half of them have been told t...

Actor and human rights advocate Mike Farrell spent time with the LA Progressive discussing the death penalty. Mike has devoted his life to overturning the death penalty. While not the founder, Mike has been the president of Death Penalty Focus since the early 1990s. According to Farrell, the organization was founded simply because, at the time, California was in a situation where the United States...

Black Democratic politicians who flip parties after they are elected by Democrats and later join the MAGA Republicans are betraying their voters in a cynical, power-hungry and hazardous game of bait-and-switch. These dangerous political games come at an equally hazardous time for Black people, precisely when the Republican Party is the most racist and hostile it has ever been to Black lives and as...