candidacy

Donald Trump has taken the country into unexplored legal territory often, but rarely so far as in Tuesday’s ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court. The decision leaves the fate of his presidential candidacy hinging on a constitutional amendment adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War.In a stunning but not totally unanticipated 4-3 ruling, Colorado’s highest court ordered its top elections official to remove Trump from the state’s ballots on the ground that he is disqualified from the presidency by Section 3 of the 14th…

When the way in which you are making an announcement (and the technical difficulties that ensued) overshadows the announcement itself, you’re in big trouble. That’s my takeaway from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ audio announcement via Twitter Spaces that he is officially seeking the Republican presidential nomination.The first impression Americans will have of the DeSantis campaign is that he declared his candidacy on a platform that’s been in a financial free fall ever since his announcement co-star, Elon Musk, took it…

You’ll have to get used to Black people being in charge.That’s the closing remark from “A Soldier’s Play,” which won the 2020 Tony Award for best play revival . According to playwright Charles Fuller, who died last month, his refusal to drop the line is the reason it took 38 years for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play to make it Broadway.Apparently producers were concerned white theatergoers in 1982 America wouldn’t like it very much. Judging from the surge in hate crimes following the 2008 election of President Obama, the…