Yesterday Human Rights Campaign head Chad Griffin urged President Obama to appoint an LGBT person as Antonin Scalia’s successor. He writes: To have a representative on our nation’s highest court would send a powerful message to the millions of LGBT people who have struggled for recognition — and respect — for many decades. Today, we have other legal champions who …

Oh brother. Via Mediaite: According to an article pushed by the Ted Cruz campaign Sunday, Marco Rubio casually renounced his Christianity in a roomful of people yesterday. In a video posted by the University of Pennsylvania student paper The Daily Pennsylvanian, Rubio runs into Ted’s father Rafael Cruz and a Cruz staffer while the campaigns were both staying in the …

Another remake of a Disney classic. Entertainment Weekly recaps: It’s time to see Pete’s Dragon. Disney has unveiled the first teaser for its forthcoming remake, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, newcomer Oakes Fegley (great name for a child actor playing a feral child), and the title dragon. Pete’s dragon only registers a brief glimpse in the whimsical teaser, which …

From Freakout Nation: The Donald Trump rally in Atlanta today was weird, well because it was a Donald Trump rally and all of the rules are just tossed out the window all willy nilly. First, Katy Tur of NBC reported on Twitter that, “Trump trashes press. Crowd jeers. Guy by press ‘pen’ looks at us & screams “you’re a bitch!” …

NBC News reports: With Jeb Bush out of the race, Donald Trump was in need of a new straw man. On Sunday, the day after a big, “beautiful” win in South Carolina’s primary, Trump found at least a temporary way to fill the Bush void when the lights suddenly went out during his speech. “Oh, I like that much better,” …

Reuters reports: Pope Francis on Sunday called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment “You shall not kill” was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent. Using some of his strongest words ever against capital punishment, he also called on Catholic politicians worldwide to make “a courageous and exemplary gesture” by seeking …

Donald Trump appeared on ABC’s This Week today, telling host George Stephanopoulos that he’s now “not sure” if Marco Rubio is eligible to be president. Stephanopoulos pressed the issue because Trump yesterday retweeted a supporter’s claim that “BOTH Cruz AND Rubio are ineligible to be POTUS! It’s a SLAM DUNK CASE!!” As he typically does, Trump shrugged off the retweet. …

Yesterday Glenn Beck invited his followers to join him in not eating tomorrow so that God will see they are totally serious about wanting Ted Cruz to win Tuesday’s Nevada GOP caucus. After much mocking on his Facebook page, this morning Beck posted a response: Reading posts today proves the point that the Church is dead asleep. Since when has …

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and the rest of the his court are being attacked from the right. From World Net Daily: Marriage activists in Alabama have filed complaints with the state Judicial Inquiry Commission against the nine members of the state Supreme Court because they have failed to rule on the application of the U.S. Supreme Court’s …

UPDATE BELOW: Rubio denies report. Huffington Post has the exclusive: In a major development in the Republican presidential race, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney will endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for president, The Huffington Post has learned from two Republican sources. Details of Romney’s endorsement were still being worked out as of Sunday morning. The sources said that the former …

The dynasty has died. After his terrible result in the South Carolina primary, Jeb Bush tonight suspended his campaign after blowing through a jillion dollars of his donors’ money. And then there were five. Kasich will surely hold on until Ohio and Dr. Stabby is consulting with whatever alien civilization has been advising him.

TIME recaps the result: Donald J. Trump, the brash billionaire who has proved the laws of politics do not apply in this tumultuous presidential campaign, won South Carolina’s Republican primary on Saturday, jettisoning decades of Evangelical control over the state. Trump in recent days found himself in a closer-than-expected race against Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Sen. Ted Cruz. …

The polls have closed in South Carolina and the first results are starting to trickle in. Embedded below is a bootleg live-stream of CNN’s coverage. Watch along with us and weigh in.

Vox breaks it down: Clinton has won the Nevada Democratic caucus. That’s something that was expected for months — but it was suddenly thrown into doubt in the last couple of weeks, as Bernie Sanders appeared to surge in Nevada after a lopsided victory in the New Hampshire primary. Clinton’s victory sets her back on track before next week’s South …

At this writing Hillary Clinton has a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in the Nevada Democratic Caucus with about half of the results having come in so far. Embedded below is a bootleg live-stream of MSNBC’s coverage. Watch along with us and weigh in.

Talking Points Memo reports: Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) latest move in South Carolina is a mailer that merges President Barack Obama’s face with that of Cruz’s rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). South Carolina state Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D) told The Wall Street Journal that she thought the mailer “moved beyond the dog whistle.” South Carolina presidential politics are notoriously dirty. …

Trump’s audience, unsurprisingly, LOVED the story. From the New York Daily News: Donald Trump’s tough talk on terrorism took a bizarre and bloodthirsty turn Friday as he gleefully retold a stomach-turning tall tale about Muslim extremists being killed with bullets that had been dipped in pig’s blood. His supporters rabidly cheered him on as the GOP presidential front-runner turned myth …

The Associated Press reports: A judge on Friday sent the Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck to adult court, raising the possibility that he could get jail time for the 2013 crash that killed four people. Ethan Couch was 16 at the time of the crash. During his juvenile trial, a defense expert invoked …

This morning members of Westboro Baptist are picketing outside the funeral of Antonin Scalia, who “well knows and understands the folly and fatality of that Catholic Monster he spent his life time nourishing and worshipping.”  Because, presumably, Scalia is now in hell with billions of other Catholics. Today’s protest is rather notable in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2011 …

Last night Marco Rubio dismissed the “conspiracy” nuts at Breitbart during an appearance on Fox News, telling host Neil Cavuto that his campaign doesn’t even credential Breitbart reporters for his events. Boom! As you probably now, for the last year Breitbart has acted as a de facto arm of the Trump campaign, with a large number of their articles either …