LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyIran Mike Pompeo Said Congress Doesn’t Need to Approve War With Iran. 2020 Democrats Aren’t Having It.The Intercept - Akela LacyJon Schwarz As the Trump administration ratchets up tensions with Iran, escalating fears that the United States is looking for a possible path to another war in …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyPolitics The latest US Supreme Court rulings are blowing up pundits’ predictionsQuartz - Ephrat LivniThe latest US Supreme Court rulings show that the justices aren’t towing political party lines in the way pundits on the left and right predicted after Donald Trump appointed two new members. This may
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyGeorge Stephanopoulos Trump isn’t a president, he’s a gangsterrawstory.com - Lucian K. Truscott IV, Salon The FBI had to wiretap mafia bosses like John Gotti and Vincent “The Chin” Gigante to catch them breaking the law. All they had to do to catch Donald …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyForbes 400 Saving faceThe Washington PostHow did Donald Trump, a self-serving promoter who lost billions of dollars for his investors, convince the world that he is a financial genius? It wasn’t just by fabricating tales of his success. It was
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyLiberal View The internal poll that Donald Trump said didn’t exist was just leakedThinkProgress - Adam Peck And surprise! The numbers are just as bad for Trump as everyone thought. ABC News on Friday published the results of an internal poll conducted by …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyDon McGahn McGahn source bites back on Trump's Mueller claimsAxios - Jonathan Swan President Trump's public critique of his former White House counsel Don McGahn isn't going unanswered. A source close to McGahn told Axios: “Anyone …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracySarah Sanders Good riddance, Sarah Sanders, Washington's worst communicatorThe Guardian - Richard WolffeFor 94 days, the outgoing White House press secretary gave no press briefing in the press room just a few steps from the press office that she nominally ran. For more than three years, Sanders made no
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyNRA Inside the NRA’s finances: Deepening debt, increased spending on legal fees — and cuts to gun trainingThe Washington Post - By Carol D. Leonnig, Katie Zezima, Tom HamburgerThe National Rifle Association spent growing sums on overhead in 2018 even as it cut money for core activities such as gun training and political efforts, ending the year deeper in debt, new financial
LAL2911added this to Crimes against humanityPolitics Friday’s ruling enshrines constitutional protections against anti-trans discrimination.slate.com - Mark Joseph Stern The decision is already helping transgender plaintiffs in other cases.
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyPolitics The Man Behind the State Department’s New “Natural Law” Focusnewrepublic.com - Kathryn Joyce Robert George, longtime religious zealot and onetime Never Trumper, has reached the halls of Foggy Bottom. The State Department’s Commission on …
LAL2911added this to Crimes against humanityNews Migrants complain of poor conditions at US holding centersAssociated Press - By CEDAR ATTANASIO, Associated PressEL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyBill Kristol Republican Group Urges Congress To Act Against Trump In Stunning New AdHuffPost - Ed MazzaA GOP organization accuses the president of violating his oath and says "the remedy" is for Congress to act. A Republican group has created a TV ad that urges House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracy The Prophylactic Executive Privilegelawfareblog.com - Jonathan Shaub is currently the Tennessee Assistant Solicitor General. He formerly served in the U.S. Department of Justice as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel and as a Bristow Fellow in the Solicitor General's Office. He also spent time as an associate with the Supreme Court & Appellate Group at Hogan Lovells and clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Shaub graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. This post represents the opinions of the author alone and not necessarily those of the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter. More Articles Two seminal events have occurred in recent days in the ongoing oversight war between the House of Representatives and the Trump administration—and in …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracySteven Mnuchin Justice Dept. issues memo backing Mnuchin’s refusal to give Trump’s tax returns to CongressThe Washington Post - By Devlin Barrett, Matt ZapotoskyThe Justice Department on Friday released its legal rationale for refusing to provide President Trump’s tax returns to Congress, arguing that House Democrats want to make the documents public, which “is
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyPolitics Trump’s internal poll numbers are out. And both they and his team’s response paint a bleak picture.The Washington Post - By Aaron BlakeFor days, President Trump has denied a New York Times report that his internal polling data showed him in deep trouble in key states in 2020, claiming the Times simply made up the numbers. It didn’t. made
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyTrump Tower Trump’s incoherent walk-back won’t helpThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinAfter letting outrage bubble for a couple of days, President Trump went into his safe cocoon on Fox News to try to tamp down on the blowback to his remarks that he would listen to oppo research from foreign
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyIran Trump’s Lack of Credibility Is Hampering America’s Ability to Respond to the Crisis in the Gulfslate.com - Fred Kaplan An Iranian navy boat tries to control fire from a tanker said to have been attacked in the Gulf of Oman. AFP/Getty ImagesIf Iran did attack two …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyGeorge Stephanopoulos Even Trump Seems to Know He Screwed the Pooch with StephanopoulosVanity Fair - By Tina NguyenThe president is on damage control duty after inviting more foreign interference in 2020. It’s rare for Donald Trump to acknowledge he’s made a tactical error, and even rarer for him to attempt to clean
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyKamala Harris Kamala Harris Shouldn't Endorse Prosecuting TrumpThe Atlantic - Quinta JurecicA presidential candidate shouldn’t be endorsing the potential prosecution of a political opponent. No president of the United States has ever been prosecuted. Richard Nixon, who likely came the closest,
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyPolling Team Trump Admits Poll Showed Biden Crushing Him — But Insists Everything’s ChangedTalking Points Memo - By Kate Riga After heated denials from President Donald Trump, his campaign this week finally admitted that yes, their internal March polling did show former Vice …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyMitch McConnell Why Mitch McConnell is rejecting Hill calls on election security, as House Dems plan new pushCNN - By Ted Barrett, Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to buckle to the near constant drumbeat from Democrats -- and some Republicans -- about the need to pass election security legislation in the
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyEd Markey Senate Dems' Plea For Net Neutrality Vote Falls On Deaf EarsForbes - Kenneth CorbinA handful of Democratic senators this week made an earnest but predictably futile attempt to cajole their Republican colleagues into taking action on net neutrality legislation that the House has approved.
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyTrump Tower Trump Toady Lindsey Graham Trips Over His Own Tonguecrooksandliars.com - digby Graham said today that he doesn't think Trump said the right thing in his interview yesterday and then he added this: “I hope my Democrat colleagues …
LAL2911added this to Crimes against humanityU.S. Supreme Court U.S. court lets Trump transgender military ban stand, orders new reviewReuters - By Andrew Chung and Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court handed President Donald Trump a victory in his effort to ban most transgender people from the military, ordering a judge to reconsider her ruling against the policy, which
LAL2911added this to Crimes against humanityHong Kong Trump administration unlikely to move on Hong Kong barring dramatic escalation: U.S. officialReuters - By David Brunnstrom and Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is unlikely to move to revise a 1992 act that gives Hong Kong special trade and business privileges unless there is a dramatic escalation by China in response
LAL2911added this to Heartening newsVatican Major oil companies commit to carbon pricing at VaticanAssociated Press - By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANK JORDANS, Associated PressVATICAN CITY (AP) — Some of the world's major oil producers pledged Friday to support "economically meaningful" carbon pricing regimes after a personal appeal from Pope Francis to avoid "perpetrating brutal
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyBoris Johnson Donald Trump and the Art of the LieNew York Magazine - Andrew Sullivan “I like the truth. I’m actually a very honest guy,” President Trump told a slightly incredulous George Stephanopoulos this week. Like almost …
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyWilbur Ross Trump Blocked Congress From Seeing These Emails About The Census UnredactedNPR - Hansi Lo WangThe Trump administration left behind a long paper trail as it pushed to get a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Many of those internal emails and memos became public as part of the lawsuits over
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyMichael Flynn Flynn ordered to appear in court with new Trump-approved lawyerPOLITICO - By DARREN SAMUELSOHNMichael Flynn appears to be sticking with his cooperation deal, despite speculation that his new attorney signaled an intent to cancel a previous guilty plea. Michael Flynn has been ordered to appear court
LAL2911added this to Trump Russia and democracyChris Stewart Fox News and Republicans are getting creative with their defenses of Trump accepting foreign dirtThe Washington Post - By Aaron BlakeIt has now been two days since President Trump declared that he might accept dirt on political opponents from foreign governments in the 2020 presidential election. He did so despite the fact that such
