According to a new poll from the Democracy Project two out of three Americans believe that democracy is getting weaker in America. The poll also confirmed that a vast majority of Americans consider it very important to live in a democracy, Republicans were evenly divided on whether or not democracy in the U.S. is getting…
Rachel Maddow used the Supreme Court ruling on the Muslim ban as part of a compelling argument for why it will be up to the voters to check Trump by electing a Democratic Congress in November
Over the past month, the Democratic advantage on the generic ballot has doubled from three points to six points, according to RealClearPolitics.
Trump officials view your First Amendment right to protest as a danger to them, and they’re enlisting the Secret Service for protection. Â
Political strategist Steve Schmidt, who worked for George W. Bush and John McCain, painted a grim picture on Tuesday of the direction in which Donald Trump is taking the country. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the former Republican listed five ways democracies collapse and said Trump appears to be checking off each one…
Chris Matthews tore into the Supreme Court on Tuesday, hours after the conservative body decided to uphold Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. The MSNBC host said their decision on the ban is just the latest in a long line of high-profile decisions that prove the court is an extension of the Republican Party. “The five-man Republican…
More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was illusory.
Presidential adviser Stephen Miller, the most hard-line advocate for stricter immigration laws in the Trump administration, was with the president at a campaign rally in South Carolina last night. Â While he was gone a group of demonstrators went to his Washington home anyway to make their feelings known about his right-wing immigration policies. For a…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was dealt a major loss on Tuesday when a federal judge who had previously expressed some sympathy for Manafort refused to dismiss charges brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
On MSNBC, Steve Schmidt laid it out clearly and bluntly that Donald Trump’s Muslim ban has made Osama Bin Laden’s dream of a war of civilizations come true.
A bitterly personal matchup in New York between a convicted felon seeking to reclaim his congressional seat from a former prosecutor is among dozens of key races in seven U.S. states on Tuesday, as voters pick candidates for November elections that will determine control of Congress.
Women are not getting hired or promoted at the same rate as men in the U.S. Justice Department’s top law enforcement arms, leaving many female employees feeling they face routine gender discrimination in the workplace, the department’s internal watchdog has found.
Small groups of protesters in cities across the United States are camping outside offices used by federal immigration agents, seeking to disrupt deportations in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tough stance on illegal immigration.
Students at the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday sued the Indiana school and the Trump administration over a move this year to drop coverage for some forms of birth control from the university’s health insurance plan, citing religious objections.
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has consistently ignored recommendations from the Department of Energy to reject or limit waivers to oil refiners seeking exemptions from nation’s biofuels law, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
MSNBC cut off coverage of a Trump lunch with members of Congress because as Craig Melvin put it listening to it all would, “bore you to tears.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) demanded an apology from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) after she called on citizens to use their First Amendment rights to protest the Trump administration. Video: “There’s no place for this. She obviously should apologize,” Ryan told reporters at a news conference. Here’s what Waters said, which is nothing like the…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said there were “stark parallels” with the court’s now discredited 1944 decision that upheld U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two. Sotomayor described at length various statements Trump made on the campaign trail.
The media and politicians keep addressing the issue of Donald Trump as if it were a relationship problem between him and whoever he is insulting, intimidating, bullying, and lying about on that day. This is not only wrong, but it enables him to continue and misses the far more frightening point that there is no reasoning with Donald Trump, because he does not want the same things for our country as most of us on both sides of the aisle want.
Michael Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, is seeking to prevent prosecutors from reviewing about 12,000 files out of more than four million seized by authorities as part of a criminal investigation.
The victory that Trump is celebrating would never have happened if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had not set up the rigging of the Supreme Court by obstructing Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
A California federal court dismissed climate change lawsuits against five oil companies by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, saying the complaints required foreign and domestic policy decisions that were outside the purview of courts, Chevron Corp
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Steve Schmidt called Donald Trump and imbecile con man who won a fluke election and is bringing about America’s great decline.
On Sunday we reported that “Trump’s trade war is hitting the agricultural Midwest hard as farmers in eight of the top ten soybean producing states that voted for Trump are going to be looking at bankruptcy as they are already being hurt by Trump’s trade war with China.†We also said that Trump’s trade war…
Raf Noboa, an Iraq War veteran and former Army sergeant, may have said it best:  “America’s military once liberated people from concentration camps. It beggars the mind and our morality that it might be used to secure them.†“It smacks of totalitarianism,†added Steve Kleinman, a retired Air Force colonel and military intelligence officer. Kleinman…
ABC News reported on Monday that Erik Prince has turned over to Robert Mueller all of his electronic devices, including his cellphone and computer. Prince is the founder of Blackwater, the brother of Betsy DeVos, and at the center of Robert Muellers’ investigation of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.  Last week Prince suddenly announced to…
