The Panama Papers, which revealed corruption on an international scale, have largely been overshadowed by Donald Trump’s serial scandals, sex payoffs, possible Russia collusion and unprecedented self-enrichment. But not for long. The papers are going Hollywood....
Ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s cooperation with Special Counsel Robert Mueller was detailed in a sentencing memo filed by Mueller’s office tonight (Dec. 4). Read the full document below....
In another significant test of presidential immunity, New York Supreme Court Judge Salliann Scarpulla rejected arguments by Trump’s lawyers that President Trump is immune under the U.S. Constitution’s “Supremacy Clause,” from being sued in state court because he is a sitting president....
Donald Trump’s firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has all the markings of Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” during Watergate, compounded by Trump’s bumbling effort to put a political crony in the job, sparking a national outcry....
Brett Kavanaugh’s stunning testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee not only revealed his arrogance, imperiousness and lack of judicial temperament, but also was so riddled with lies he should be disqualified from serving on the Supreme Court on those grounds alone.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s pledge in congressional hearings to be an impartial arbiter of the U.S. Constitution on the Supreme Court is counter to his history of deception as a political operative for President George W. Bush, his record as a judge and even in his personal life....
Michael Cohen was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer for almost a decade and appears ready to unravel the president’s complex web of business dealings, porn star payoffs, Russian mob ties and possible collusion with the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign....
Donald Trump’s obsession with the Russia investigation is overshadowing a potentially more serious constitutional crisis that just cleared a major hurdle in federal District Court. ...
Donald Trump’s attack on the judiciary following the setback of his Muslim ban in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is unprecedented for a president and risks making him “an enemy of the law and the Constitution,” according to two noted legal scholars. Martha Minow, dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School and Robert Post, dean and professor of law at Yale Law School, raised red flags over Trump’s actions in a scathing article published by The Boston Globe....
New York is the latest state to join a federal lawsuit seeking to declare President Trump’s Muslim ban unconstitutional. The measure is detrimental to “the economic welfare, health, and well-being of its citizenry; and the interests of New York’s employers, hospitals, and educational institutions,” according to the suit. Trump caused chaos across the country with the order, not only because of its sweeping ban against citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, but also because of the way it was implemented....
Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting Muslim refugees from Syria, who are arriving in the United States suffered what could be a fatal blow in Federal District Court in New York City today. A judge blocked enforcement of the order until a full hearing can be held. The legal move was filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in federal court in the Eastern District of New York....
Donald Trump’s campaign is being investigated for possibly colluding with Russia in the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, according to Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. If Trump, or campaign officials were working with Russian agents or officials or had knowledge that Russia was engineering the theft of the emails it could be in violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act....
The North Carolina state legislature has showed exactly what the nation can expect in the coming months from President-elect Trump and his power hungry, bible-toting, corporate-controlled cabinet. And it ain’t pretty. Just days after incumbent Republican Pat McCrory lost to Democratic challenger Roy Cooper, the Republican-controlled Senate, under the guise of “Disaster Relief,” quietly repealed a majority of the incoming governor’s powers....
FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell letter upending Hillary Clinton’s election campaign not only violated Justice Department protocols, but was based on a search warrant that was baseless and possibly illegal, according to a lawyer who obtained the documents. Los Angeles lawyer Randy Schoenberg, who made the request, said he was “appalled” by the search warrant and the FBI’s actions....
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, schooled Donald Trump on his latest off-the-wall desire to make flag-burning a crime punishable by jail or loss of citizenship, a move that would put the United States in the same league as North Korea, other despotic regimes and even Nazi Germany....
