Author: lichtman

Dig beneath the surface of the Abramoff affair and you find the deeper scandal within: the systematic corruption by wealthy corporate interests of a once principled conservative movement. The result is a supposedly conservative...

I am a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from Maryland and to date the only candidate in our state to go on the record in opposition to the seating of Samuel Alito on the U. S. Supreme Court. See the statement...

The U. S. Supreme Court announced this week that it will review the congressional redistricting plan that Rep. Tom DeLay (R) pushed through the Texas legislature in mid-decade to replace an established plan drawn by a federal...

The big corporate interests that pumped money into Tom DeLay’s scheme to control the Texas legislature and break precedent by rewriting an established congressional redistricting plan in mid-decade knew full well what they...

In explaining his recent vote against an immediate pullout from Iraq, Maryland Representative and senatorial candidate Ben Cardin claimed to be a critic of the Iraqi war, saying, “I have called on President Bush to bring...