Don McGahn speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC 2.0) From the very moment former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel with a mandate to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election, Donald Trump has made clear that he … [Read more...]
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Just Following Orders, Trump Subordinates Deny Veterans’ Cannabis Needs
Taking their cue from their Commander-in-Chief, who refuses to re-classify medical cannabis as a drug worthy of research for wounded veterans, the Judge Advocate General’s office at West Point stripped decorated Army Major Tye Reedy of his pension for joining leading cannabis company, Acreage Holdings. (Acreage Holdings was recently acquired by … [Read more...]
Mueller Finds Strong Evidence of Obstruction, Leaves Issue to Congress or the Voters
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC 2.0) When the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election was released last week, the President and his defenders … [Read more...]
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ 2020 Citizenship Question Blocked by Federal Judges
Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner, and his wife, Assistant to the President Ivanka Trump, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are seen as they arrive with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to the Murabba Palace as honored guests of King … [Read more...]
U.S. Court of Appeals Reviews Trump Administration’s Rescission of DACA
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is an immigration policy that was enacted by President Obama’s executive order in 2012. It allows undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and have lived in the US for more than four years to avoid deportation and obtain a work permit. The deferral on deportation is … [Read more...]
Judge Says Federal Government Can’t Restrict Sanctuary Money
The Trump administration recently suffered a blow when U.S. District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos in Manhattan ruled in favor of a petition by New York City and the state of New York (and six other states). Judge Ramos determined the federal Government was not permitted to hold back millions of dollars in grant money from the states and cities … [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...]
Maryland Goes To Court To Challenge Trump’s Attorney General Pick
The state of Maryland launched a court challenge on Tuesday to the legality of President Donald Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general. The state saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority and broke federal law. Trump installed Whitaker as acting attorney general last week after ordering … [Read more...]
Chicago Struggles to Implement Consent Decree
Massive Police Department Reforms Opposed by Federal Government, Police Unions On October 20, 2014, a 17-year-old African American named Laquan McDonald was fatally shot by Chicago Police Office Jason Van Dyke. Initially, the police department claimed the shooting was justified because the teen had been erratically brandishing a knife. However, … [Read more...]
