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Trump Just Handed Steve Bannon a Big Weapon in His War With …
21 hours ago · The weapon in question, it turns out, is buried in the Laken Riley Act, the controversial bill that would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of minor nonviolent crimes. Another provision in the bill—which the Senate advanced in a key procedural vote Friday with Trump’s tacit blessing, putting it on track to become law—would authorize state attorneys general to bring ...
No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate
3 days ago · The charge of foot-dragging has become a meme. Elie Honig, writing in New York magazine, was particularly cocksure: “The debate about whether Garland took too long to charge the Trump cases—or to appoint a Special Counsel to get the job done—is over.Exhibit A: there’s not going to be a federal trial before the 2024 election.
You’ll Never Guess Who Tried to Interfere in the 2020 Election
Jan 7, 2025 · In August 2020, the Department of Justice published a press release announcing that it had requested information about government-run nursing homes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, “despite having been provided data indicating that the nursing homes with the most significant quality of care issues were in other states,” according to the report.
Partisanship Has Worked for Democrats Before. It Can Again.
4 days ago · But in the space between bipartisanship and hyper partisanship, there is a wide-ranging world of responsible partisanship within which congressional Democrats can operate as became clear in the recent struggle over government funding.. What are some of the partisan strategies Democrats they can deploy in the year ahead? Most important will be for congressional Democrats to remain disciplined ...
Paul Manafort Is Back to Wreck the World | The New Republic
3 days ago · And that’s not even including the way that the Trump Organization itself is set to act as an open, obvious sieve for foreign influence. Unlike in the first term, the Trump Organization has said it will do business in whichever foreign country it likes, and open as many new foreign deals while Trump is president as it chooses.
America’s Coming Public Health Crisis | The New Republic
3 days ago · As Caitlin Rivers points out in her new book, Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks, it’s an uncanny parallel to the lapses and missteps of, for instance, the early days of the Covid pandemic, when health officials, fearful of stoking panic, repeated that the risk to the public was low. Being forthright about the risks of …
How Do You Confront an Administration That Can’t Be Shamed?
5 days ago · Climate Defiance gained prominence fighting the Biden administration. But that administration is now on its way out. So in addition to trying to squeeze last concessions from a Democratic White House—like denying permits for a series of proposed liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals that Biden had paused last January—the group is also pondering its future strategies and role under Donald Trump.
Trump Freaks Out Over Supreme Court Rejecting His Hush-Money …
Jan 10, 2025 · An appeals court has denied an emergency motion from two of Donald Trump’s co-defendants to stop the release of a report on the president-elect’s felony classified documents case.. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team had asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of appeals to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision blocking the report’s release in favor of Carlos De Oliveira, the property ...
Trump Launches Another Panicked Bid to Get Out of Hush-Money …
Jan 6, 2025 · Donald Trump is (unsurprisingly) trying to get out of his sentencing hearing for the 34 felony counts in his hush-money case. In a 17-page filing Monday, Trump’s lawyers announced that the president-elect would seek an automatic stay on his sentencing, challenging New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s rejection of presidential immunity claims.