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A federal judge found that former President Donald Trump and attorney John Eastman engaged in “a coup in search of a legal theory” on March 28. The court concluded that, more likely than not, their efforts to overturn the presidential election were federal crimes. The coup continues. Trump lost by more than seven million votes, but his false claim that Democrats stole the election from him is not just about 2020 anymore. It is about conditioning GOP voters for the ultimate Trump loyalty test: rejecting future elections that Trump or his designees lose. Sowing distrust in the system, Trump...

Ali Akbar Gholami arrived in the United States last September with little more than his work ID. He had no time to gather much else as the Taliban took over the Afghanistan capital of Kabul and escalated a humanitarian crisis, prompting the U.S. to airlift him and 76,000 Afghan nationals to safety. But Gholami — who speaks fluent English, studied civil aviation for two years and previously worked at Kabul International Airport — brought skills and a work ethic that American employers desire amid a tight labor market. That’s particularly the case in Gholami’s new home state of Wisconsin,...

John Roberts, the U.S. chief justice, has announced an investigation into a leak showing that the supreme court provisionally voted to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. Publication of the draft opinion by the Politico website on May 2 night sparked demonstrations outside America’s highest court, condemnation from Joe Biden and fears that the judiciary has suffered profound damage to its reputation for independence. In a statement on May 3, Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the document written in February and said: “To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the court was...