Michael Cohen, the former “fixer” for U.S. President Donald Trump, plans to testify on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time about a leak of emails that would hurt his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Cohen will also say that Trump directed negotiations for a real estate project in Moscow even as he … [Read more...]
Mueller Report Expected Soon on Russian Election Interference
Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, with plans for Barr to submit to Congress soon after a summary of Mueller's confidential report, according to people familiar with the plans. The preparations are the clearest indication yet that Mueller is nearly … [Read more...]
New York State Eyes Legal Challenge to Trump’s Emergency Declaration
New York’s state attorney general on Friday threatened legal action against U.S. President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration aimed at freeing up billions in funds to build a wall along the country’s border with Mexico, according to Reuters. New York’s Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement, “We will not stand for this … [Read more...]
Legislation Seeks Cannabis Reform
Oregon Senator, Ron Wyden, proposed legislation that aims to ease the conflict between states where cannabis is legal in some form and the federal law, which categorizes marijuana as a dangerous illegal drug just like heroin, LSD, and cocaine, for example. While a number of states have adopted legalized medical marijuana, and some states have … [Read more...]
Former Florida State Senate Aide Receives $900,000 As Settlement for Sexual Harassment
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, journalists and activists focused significant attention on the United States Congress. Careful investigative reporting uncovered a number of truly dispiriting (and often disgusting) stories involving Congressmen harassing aides and other victims. However, just as sexual misconduct exists in almost every … [Read more...]
Whats Happening In Congress the First Week of 2019?
U.S. Congress was set to reconvene on Wednesday with no sign of a workable plan to end a 12-day-old partial federal government shutdown and President Donald Trump not budging on his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding, according to Reuters.com. It is also set for Democrats to approve a two-part spending package that will stop the … [Read more...]
Strict Term Limits Force Nation’s Highest Turnover in Michigan Legislature
In the 80's and 90's, the idea of term limits took hold across the country. Activists pushed them as a way of bringing change to moribund legislatures, while angry voters dissatisfied with their local governments seized on term limits as a way of holding politicians to account. Term limits represented an important part of the “Contract With … [Read more...]
Federalist Society Members Criticize Appointment of Whitaker and Other Constitutional Violations
Donald Trump’s attempt to shut down Robert Mueller’s investigation by instating Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General has enraged The Federalist Society. The organization of conservatives and libertarians, whose members played an outsize role in crafting Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court “short list” that included Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett … [Read more...]
Democrats File Lawsuit Against Trump Over Whitaker
Several top Democratic senators on Monday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump in a federal court over the appointment of acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. The senators - Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Mazie Hirono - alleged Trump violated the Constitution in his appointment of Whitaker. They claim the Senate … [Read more...]
Appeals Court Ruling on Net Neutrality Will Not Be Reviewed by the Supreme Court
The Obama Administration’s net neutrality laws were solidified in 2015, but after Donald Trump appointed Ajit Pai Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2017, those rules were rolled back. Net neutrality laws require all Internet service providers (ISPs), like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and Time Warner, to treat all … [Read more...]
