Author: Mark Stricherz

At the Capitol recently, news broke that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had committed yet another blunder. On Jan. 31, during the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago, the former president questioned whether Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was black rather than Indian. Reporters scurried to…

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) used to think the only people who paid close attention to the Supreme Court were ideological activists or political professionals inside the Washington Beltway. The more the congressman hears from voters in his upper Manhattan-based district, the more Espaillat realizes he was wrong. “I hear about the Supreme Court from constituents…