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    Harvard Law Prof Urges California, New York to Challenge Presidential Election

    Keith Girard
    Harvard law school professor Lawrence Lessig has sparked an effort to urge attorneys general in California and New York to challenge the presidential election in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing the current system of allocating Electoral College votes deprives voters of their constitutional rights. A group called Taxpayers for Fairness has filed a petition on the site change.org, urging New York AG Eric Schneiderman to take action on behalf of New York voters....
    ELECTIONSPOLITICS

    Vladimir Putin Has Set Up Trump as ‘Cat’s Paw’ for Russian Aggression

    Keith Girard
    Vladimir Putin played a dangerous game when he interfered in the U.S. election to elect Donald Trump as president. The move brought into the open what our European allies have been warning us about: Russia’s campaign to undermine and ultimately destabilize the West. The campaign is taking modern asymmetrical warfare to a new and dangerous level, melding politics, diplomacy, militarism, cyber-warfare and disinformation into a coordinated assault on democracy....
    POLITICS

    Trump Presidency Damaged by Russian Hacking; Even Republicans Are Rebelling

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump’s presidency appears to be severely damaged by the Russian election hacking scandal. Senior Republicans in Congress are now threatening even tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, a clear rejection of Trump’s claims that Russia was not involved. Trump’s credibility sank to a new low yesterday in the wake of sanctions announced by President Obama to punish Russia for meddling in the presidential election....
    NATIONAL SECURITY

    Obama Slams Russia With New Sanctions for Email Hacks Aiding Trump Election

    Keith Girard
    President Barack Obama today (Dec. 29) slammed Russia with new sanctions in response to its interference in the U.S. presidential election. “All Americans should be alarmed by Russia’s actions,” the president said in a statement. Two Russian intelligence agencies, three companies and four individual intelligence officers with singled out and banned from travel and doing business with U.S. companies an individuals....
    NATIONAL SECURITY

    Trump, a ‘Would-Be Dictator’ Surrounded by Extremists, Imperils Democracy–Soros

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump has been slammed by his harshest criticism yet. Billionaire George Soros, who escaped Nazism as a child, called the president-elect a “would-be dictator” who has surrounded himself with extremists. “Democracy is now in crisis,” Soros warns in a new essay. “Even the US, the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president,” he wrote on his Web site Project Syndicate....
    WHITE HOUSE

    Trump Wishes Russian Hacking Scandal Would Go Away, Obama Plans to Hit Back

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump is still wishing mightily that Russia’s unprecedented tampering with the presidential election would just go away. But President Obama is vowing to take action against the Kremlin amid a looming congressional investigation into the scandal. Obama is expected to reveal today (Dec. 29) the steps he’s taking to retaliate for Russia’s efforts to sway the election in Trump’s favor....
    NATIONAL SECURITY

    How Donald Trump Can Win Over Critics During His First 100 Days in Office

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump has an ace up his sleeve if he wants to win over critics. He isn’t wedded to Democratic or Republican orthodoxy. That allows him to show his true independence. He’ll get an early test in office to do just that on Obamacare. House Speaker Paul Ryan is determined to repeal Obamacare as the first order of business. Trump should stop him....
    NATIONAL

    Trump Finally Finds Someone Who Agrees With Him on Russian Hacking (Video!)

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump has finally found someone in the highest circles of government who agrees with his view that no one really knows who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Only it’s not our government; it’s Russia’s. Trump pal Valdimir Putin addressed the issue in his annual news conference and couldn’t agree with Trump more....
    NATIONAL SECURITY

    Donald Trump Casually Suggests New Nuclear Arms Race, Causing Uproar

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump dropped another multi-megaton Twitter bomb, casually suggesting today that the nation start a new nuclear arms race “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The reaction on social media was spontaneous outrage. The United States already has more nuclear weapons that every other nation outside of Russia. Together, they control 93 percent of all warheads....
    MILITARY

    Obama Urged to Name Special Prosecutor to Probe Russia Election Hacking

    Keith Girard
    President Obama is being urged to appoint a special prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. The petition, created by political Web site Daily Kos, is acutally a vote of “no confidence” in a planned bi-partisan Congressional investigation into the hacking....
    POLITICS

    North Carolina Legislature ‘Power Grab’ Portends Trump-Style Corruption

    David Fagin and Keith Girard
    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....
    LAWNATIONALPOLITICS

    FBI Director Hung Out to Dry by Baseless Search Warrant for Clinton Emails

    Keith Girard
    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....
    LAW