Over breakfast on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shared with reporters his thoughts on primary debates, Supreme Court nominations, and the not-so-great way the media is covering the 2016 presidential campaign.

"Campaigns are not baseball games," the presidential candidate said. "What did I read in the paper today? Gov. Bush is getting a new campaign manager. You know who cares about that? About eight people in the world. Nobody cares about that." He also questioned why he is always referred to as a "socialist," with the implication he has "a radical agenda. In virtually every instance, what I am saying is supported by a significant majority of the American people.... I may be old-fashioned enough to believe that Congress might want to be representing a vast majority of our people... and not just the Koch brothers and other campaign contributors." He then had a tip for the assembled reporters: If they are going to label him a socialist, they need to at least call his rivals "capitalists."

While discussing the Supreme Court, Sanders said he would nominate justices who would ensure campaign finance laws were strengthened, and said he wasn't sure why his fellow Democratic contender, Hillary Clinton, didn't have a position on the Pacific trade agreement being discussed in Congress. "I don't understand how on an issue of such huge consequence you don't have an opinion," he said. He also suggested more primary debates with both parties. "It's a good idea to have a group of Democrats and a group of Republicans," he said. "I think the Republicans, frankly, have gotten away with murder. I think people really do not know what their agenda is." Catherine Garcia

In 2019, more than 14 million Americans paid for tax preparation software that should have been free, ProPublica reports.

The IRS has partnered with H&R Block and Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, to offer Free File, and an audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that few people took advantage of the program because it is "fraught with complexity and confusion." As a result, tax software companies steered taxpayers away from this free program for their paid services, and ended up making about a billion dollars in revenue, ProPublica reports.

In December, the IRS prohibited tax preparation companies from hiding their free products from search engines and lifted the restriction that kept the IRS from creating its own free online filing system. Catherine Garcia

Actor Kirk Douglas, a star of Hollywood's Golden Age, died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 103.

Douglas played a boxer in 1949's Champion, the movie that propelled him to stardom, and created his own film company, Bryna Productions in 1955. He starred in more than 80 movies before retiring from film in 2004, including 1960's Spartacus, serving as a producer and working with blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. He was nominated three times for the Best Actor Academy Award, and received an honorary Oscar in 1996.

Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He worked as a janitor to pay his way through St. Lawrence University, and served in the Navy during World War II. Amid the height of his fame, Douglas was a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and he received the Medal of Freedom from former President Jimmy Carter. He was also a philanthropist, launching The Douglas Foundation in 1964.

Douglas survived a helicopter crash in 1991 and suffered a debilitating stroke in 1996. Married to his wife Anne since 1954, his 11th and final book, Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood, was published in May.

In a message posted online Wednesday afternoon, son Michael Douglas wrote, "To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the Golden Age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to." Catherine Garcia

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) had some harsh words for his Republican colleagues following the acquittal of President Trump.

Brown, like his fellow Democrats, voted to remove Trump from office on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But he still wanted to get his point across. So in an op-ed in The New York Times he offered a scathing rebuke of the GOP for, as he sees it, cowering before the Trump administration.

The senator noted many Republicans in the upper chamber were especially offended by the suggestion from lead House prosecutor Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) that they were warned by the White House to vote in favor of Trump or their heads "will be on a pike."

Brown wasn't able to specifically back that claim up, but he did write that Republicans have privately agreed Trump is "reckless and unfit," while acknowledging his "lies" and admitting "what he did was wrong." (It's worth noting several Republican senators did publicly attest to the last point.) Brown said he's asked Republicans what they'll do to keep Trump in check after voting for his acquittal, but he only gets "shrugs and sheepish looks" in response. Read more at The New York Times. Tim O'Donnell

President Trump is celebrating his impeachment acquittal in the best way he knows how.

After the Senate voted Wednesday to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, he took irony to a new level and made yet another joke about being president for life. Specifically, he tweeted a video that places him in front of election signs promising he'll run for president in the year 90000, which he had already shared for the first time back in June.

Meanwhile, the rest of Trump's allies tried making a meme of their own by claiming he's "acquitted for life," like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) did with a full-on video.

To be clear, there's no way to be "acquitted forever" because there's no telling what Trump's future will hold. The fact that he's facing a number of charges and lawsuits and the possibility of more once he leaves office just complicates that claim even further. Kathryn Krawczyk

Chief Justice John Roberts was in the unenviable position of having to sit through the entirety of the Senate impeachment trial over the last few weeks while also continuing to serve on the Supreme Court, but at least he got a present out of it.

At the conclusion of the trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) presented Roberts with a golden gavel, which is typically awarded to new senators after they've sat in their chair for more than 100 hours. But McConnell thought it was ok to break with tradition in this instance.

Roberts also took time to thank McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for helping him preside over the trial, which he admitted was not the easiest task since he wasn't exactly sure what his precise responsibilities were. He was also spending time in the unfamiliar Capitol rather than his normal digs in the Supreme Court Building, which apparently was a bit jarring.

Now that the trial is done and President Trump acquitted, Roberts, like the senators he spent so much time hanging out with, will return to his normal routine. Tim O'Donnell

Senators voted on Wednesday to acquit President Trump on charges of abuse of power, with a 52-48 vote along party lines aside from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted alongside Democrats to find Trump guilty, reports CNN.

On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, senators voted 53-47 to acquit Trump rather than find him guilty and remove him from office. Two-thirds of the Senate must find a president guilty to remove him.

Trump's impeachment charges stemmed from accusations he abused his office by pushing Ukraine to investigate his political rivals to boost his re-election campaign. Trump is the third U.S. president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999, though neither president was convicted. The Week Staff