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Dec 02 2019
News
Trump’s Tax Returns
Last Monday, the Supreme Court blocked enforcement of a House subpoena for President Trump’s financial records “until the president’s lawyers file a petition for review of the D.C. Circuit’s decision. The move provides a reprieve for Trump for now, and it likely sets the stage for a broader showdown over the subpoena early next year, with a decision to follow by late June.” (SCOTUSblog)
The Flip SideApr 08 2016
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Bill Clinton’s argument with Black Lives Matter protesters is 2016’s Sister Souljah Moment
Bill Clinton spent 13 minutes yesterday forcefully responding to Black Lives Matter activists who were heckling him. Speaking in an overwhelmingly African American neighborhood of Philadelphia, the city that will host this summer’s Democratic National Convention, the former president offered a spirited defense of his record on civil rights, his signature crime bill and his wife.
Washington PostOct 22 2020
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US election 2020: Trump's impact on immigration - in seven charts
Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 with a pledge to bring down illegal immigration, famously blaming undocumented migrants from Mexico for a host of problems, including drugs and crime. In the four years since, how has this rhetoric translated into a wider immigration policy?
The number of immigrants living in the US has continued to rise under President Trump, but more
BBC NewsSep 10 2015
News
Huma Abedin, top Clinton aide, formally investigated by feds for embezzlement
Federal investigators formally investigated top Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Huma Abedin for the crime of embezzlement after confirming she took a Babymoon vacation and maternity time at the State Department without expending her formal leave, resulting in thousands of dollars of pay she wasn't entitled to receive, The Washington Times has learned.
Washington TimesOct 25 2019
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Mueller report: Criminal probe into Russia inquiry begins
The US justice department has launched a criminal investigation into the origins of the Mueller inquiry, US media report.
An administrative review into the special counsel's investigation of 2016 election interference began in May.
But the switch to a criminal probe means investigators can now issue subpoenas for testimony and documents.
President Trump has long alleged
BBC NewsApr 29 2019
Opinion
OPINION: The paper of record needs to reflect deeply on how it came to publish anti-Semitic propaganda.
As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it.
It did so in the form of a cartoon, provided to the newspaper by a wire service and published directly above an unrelated
Bret StephensDec 21 2019
Analysis
What’s the Point of Impeachment?
When you express skepticism about impeaching Donald Trump to some comrades on the Left, there’s a reflexive, almost formulaic, reaction. You don’t understand how terrible he is, and how great the urgency of booting him is. The man is a walking insult to our Constitution! Sure, the articles of impeachment may not cover his worst crimes, but hey, we can turn it all to our advantage. Max Sawicky
JacobinDec 05 2019
Analysis
Our incredibly angry political moment
Washington (CNN)There were two big moments in politics on Thursday.
1) Speaker Nancy Pelosi brusquely shut down a conservative reporter's question as to whether she hated President Donald Trump.
2) Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a heated back-and-forth with an Iowa voter at a town hall in which the man said Biden was too old to be president and Biden challenged the man
CNN (Opinion)Apr 25 2019
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Joe Biden uses Charlottesville as motivation for 2020 run: 'We are in the battle for the soul of this nation'
Joe Biden is officially in the race for president.
His long-awaited answer to the biggest political question in the country the past few months ended on Thursday, making him one of 20 Democrats vying to become the party's 2020 presidential nominee.
"The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America America is at stake
USA TODAYAug 27 2019
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Nervous Republicans focus energy on protecting Senate 'firewall'
The GOP majority in the Senate is shaping up as a firewall for Republicans who are worried that President Trump might falter and lose the White House next year.
Republicans see winning back the House majority as a tough climb in 2020, and head-to-head matchups between Trump and various Democratic presidential contenders show the president behind his potential challengers.
Though
The Hill