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Apr 24 2019
News
Trump vows to bring any impeachment fight to nation's top court
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to fight any effort by congressional Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against him after the U.S. special counsel’s Russia probe, promising to take any legal battle to the Supreme Court despite Congress’ constitutional power to impeach.
“If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump
Reuters
Jan 12 2021
Perspectives Blog
Coverage of Parler Ban Highlights Media Bias
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
News outlets from left to right covered Big Tech’s ban of Parler very differently depending on their media bias rating.
The social media app popular among conservatives and Trump supporters was effectively banned from the web and mobile devices over the weekend. It stands accused of being used to help organize
Henry A. Brechter
Apr 30 2014
News
Tim Pawlenty cites John McCain, Mitt Romney in predicting Jeb Bush can win GOP nomination
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Wednesday he believes former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush can win the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, dismissing the notion that conservatives wouldn’t elect an “establishment” candidate by pointing to the party’s standard bearer the past two presidential cycles. “See John McCain; see Mitt Romney,” Mr. Pawlenty, who ended his 2012 pre Washington Times
Apr 23 2019
News
House Dem Leaders Try to Tone Down Impeachment Talk
House Democratic leaders are urging their colleagues to tone down the impeachment rhetoric as it relates to President Donald Trump.
During a Monday evening conference call, high-ranking party leaders tried to squash talk of pursuing impeachment at this time.
According to The Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others expressed their concern over jumping on the impeachment
Newsmax (News)
Apr 23 2019
News
Dems seek to rein in calls for impeachment
Democratic leaders are racing to keep the impeachment genie in its bottle.
The release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s mammoth report on Russia’s 2016 election meddling revealed a trove of details related to President Trump’s handling of the investigation, lending a new boost to the small but vocal group of Democrats pushing to oust the president — and creating new challenges for
The Hill
Sep 25 2019
News
Ukraine call transcript shows Trump sought Biden probe, but made no mention of US aid
The White House on Wednesday released a transcript of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showing him seeking a review of Biden family dealings in the country – but the document does not show Trump leveraging military aid as part of a quid-pro-quo, as Democrats have suggested in pressing forward with impeachment.
The transcript, declassified by
Fox News Digital
Mar 05 2015
News
Is geographic clustering driving political polarization?
In recent decades, the ideological gap separating the Republican and Democratic parties in Congress has grown dramatically wider. Preliminary research shows – to no one’s great surprise – that the trend of rising polarization in the Congress has not abated.
What is driving this polarization? Prior research has identified factors such as income inequality, public financing of elections,
Washington Post
Mar 05 2015
News
Is geographic clustering driving political polarization?
In recent decades, the ideological gap separating the Republican and Democratic parties in Congress has grown dramatically wider. Preliminary research shows – to no one’s great surprise – that the trend of rising polarization in the Congress has not abated.
What is driving this polarization? Prior research has identified factors such as income inequality, public financing of elections,
Washington Post
Sep 24 2019
Opinion
Mr. Trump, Blow Us Away With Your Transparency
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, among President Trump’s staunchest defenders, has publicly — if gently — called on the president to “tell us as much as he can without compromising executive privilege, so that we can understand what happened.”
The senator is referring to a whistle-blower complaint with the inspector general of the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson,
Guest Writer - Left
Jun 20 2019
News
U.S. Democratic hopeful Booker proposes clemency for thousands of drug offenders
Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker said on Thursday he would consider releasing thousands of nonviolent drug offenders from federal prisons, vowing to use the president’s pardon power to address inherent inequality in the justice system.
Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey and one of two dozen Democrats competing for their party’s nomination for the 2020 presidential
Reuters