Today at 11:00, President Obama will announce Merrick Garland as his nominee for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of revered Justice Antonin Scalia.
The announcement comes at a precarious time.
Two days ago, courtesy of Bloomberg, we outlined how the (extremely perturbed and after Tuesday completely decimated) GOP establishment would go about stealing the Republican nomination from Donald Trump.
One of the most farcical instances of report-it-then-promptly-deny-it headline hockey since last summer’s Greek bailout drama has been the incessant barrage of “news” surrounding the oft-celebrated oil output freeze deal struck last month by the Saudis, Qatar, Venezuela, and Russia.
Authored by Eric Zuesse,
On March 14th, Iran announced that it will never pay the $10.5B that a U.S. court demanded it pay for the 9/11 attacks.
Trump’s victory in Florida was the least surprising result tonight, but it was certainly the most impressive and comprehensive. He won convincingly in an opponent’s home state by 18 points and carried every county except Miami-Dade. According to CNN’s exit poll, he won among men by 30 points, and even won with women by seven. Trump won every age group, but was strongest with the older voters that predictably made up the bulk of the electorate: Trump was 20 points up among both voters 65+ and aged 45-64, and those two groups accounted for almost three-quarters of the voters.