Nearly 1,000 Pro-Mueller Demonstrations Planned Hours After Trump Fires Sessions
The American people are ready to take to the streets as Trump continues on this destructive course toward a constitutional crisis.
The American people are ready to take to the streets as Trump continues on this destructive course toward a constitutional crisis.
Congress must act quickly to protect the special counsel investigation before Trump goes any further down this dangerous path to a constitutional crisis.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday to oust Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replace him with a noted critic of Special Counsel Robert Mueller raised immediate fears among Democrats about the future of Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump appointed Matthew Whitaker, formerly Sessions’ chief of staff, as…
Hours after the president completely melted down during an exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta, the administration is refusing to let the reporter back into the White House.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions by President Donald Trump on Wednesday drew immediate criticism from Democrats who warned Trump against moving to squash a probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The probe, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller under the supervision of…
Not only should the new acting attorney general recuse himself from the Russia investigation; he should be removed altogether.
Sarah Jones and Jason Easley talk about Trump’s desperate response to the blue wave midterm being a firing of the attorney general in an effort to stop justice from coming down on him. Listen here: To join the show, call (516) 418-5650.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who was appointed by President Donald Trump after he fired Jeff Sessions, should recuse himself from oversight of the Russia probe. “Given his previous comments advocating defunding and imposing limitations on the Mueller investigation, Mr. Whitaker should recuse…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives will likely put the leadership of many congressional committees into the hands of some of Republican President Donald Trump’s most prominent adversaries on Capitol Hill. Democratic party leaders in the House will decide on the heads of committees, with seniority…
The freshman class of the new Congress will boast the largest number of military veterans in nearly a decade, including a record number of former servicewomen, bolstering a corps of ex-military lawmakers that has been depleted in recent years.
By Amanda Becker NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Reuters) – First-time political candidate Jahana Hayes has a simple explanation for why she – and a record number of other women – ran for seats in the U.S. Congress this year. “Many women like me are just tired of waiting for someone else to do it,” said Hayes,…
By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of cannabis companies rose on Wednesday as results from the previous day’s U.S. elections pointed to more favorable political conditions for the cannabis industry. Tilray Inc shares jumped 30.6 percent. Shares of New Age Beverages Corp , which has previously announced intentions to expand into cannabis products,…
The Democratic Party needed to pick up 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. The Democrats were seen picking up 28 seats although votes were still being counted on Wednesday to determine the outcomes of as many as 13 more races.
Frank Figliuzzi said on MSNBC that Trump is openly obstructing justice by firing Jeff Sessions and replacing him with someone who he knows will shut down the Mueller investigation.
Democrat Tony Evers won the Wisconsin governor’s race on Tuesday, ending the conservative Scott Walker’s eight years in power, according to data provider DDHQ.
The city of Baltimore voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban the privatisation of its water and sewerage systems, in what supporters say is the first large U.S. jurisdiction to take such a step.
From New Mexico’s Debra Haaland, who became one of the first two indigenous women elected to the U.S. Congress to New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who at 29 became the youngest woman elected to the chamber, American political candidate notched several precedents in this week’s elections.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who will soon be running the House Russia investigation, vowed to protect Robert Mueller and the rule of law after Trump fired Jeff Sessions.
“Healthcare was on the ballot and healthcare won,” Pelosi, the House’s top Democrat, said of the Tuesday elections that gave her party a controlling majority in the House. “We won because from the beginning we focused on healthcare.”
Trump’s choice to be interim attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, believes that the Mueller investigation has gone too far and should not be investigating Trump or his family’s finances.
More LGBT+ candidates won in the U.S. midterm elections than ever before – and gender or sexual orientation was less of an issue than ever before, too, experts said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday mocked Republicans who avoided campaigning with him before congressional elections and who were not elected during their races, referencing a list of candidates by name. “Those are some of the people who decided for their own reason not to embrace – whether it’s me or what…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired on Wednesday after unrelenting criticism from President Donald Trump over his recusal from an investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential race. Sessions’ departure was widely expected to come soon after Tuesday’s congressional elections in which Republicans retained their majority…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives will likely put the leadership of many congressional committees into the hands of some of Republican President Donald Trump’s most prominent adversaries on Capitol Hill. Democratic party leaders in the House will decide on the heads of committees, with seniority…
While speaking to reporters, Speaker-elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi sent a message to Trump that the House will no longer be a rubber stamp for his agenda.
Trump tied himself into knots at his press conference as he tried to explain how losing the House was really a good thing for him. Trump said, “I really respected with what Nancy said last night about bipartisanship and getting together and uniting. She used the word uniting and the bi-partisanship statement which is so…
Trump held a press conference to explain to America why it is not his fault that Republicans got slaughtered in the midterm, and to claim that he is better than Barack Obama.
Trump blamed special interests and the media for the Democratic takeover of that House that he is responsible for.
There will be no wall, Robert Mueller will be protected, and Trump’s dirty business secrets will be exposed now that Democrats control the House.
The 2018 midterm elections will be remembered as The Year of the Woman in more ways than one. Certainly a major factor is that record numbers of women voters in urban and suburban areas gave control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats. Also, on Tuesday, 185 Democratic women and 52 Republican women ran…
To Elijah Cummings, Donald Trump “is a person who calls a lie ‘the truth’ and the truth ‘a lie.’†He thinks the president routinely violates the Constitution’s emoluments clause every day. He sees within the Trump administration a dangerous tolerance for corruption and misconduct. He also has seen, for the past two years, a Republican…
Democrats on virtually every committee in the House of Representatives are ready to take control now that they find themselves in the majority after the midterms. After nearly a decade in the minority and two years with no power to pursue oversight of the Trump administration, Democrats have prepared themselves to be the ones in…
After Democrats officially flipped the House on Tuesday night House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defiantly announced, “Tomorrow will be a new day in America.” Drew Hammill, an aide to Pelosi, tweeted Tuesday evening that President Trump called Pelosi at 11:45 p.m. “to extend his congratulations on winning a Democratic House Majority.” President Trump called…
The pro-Russia Republican who once arm-wrestled with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, has lost his seat to Democrat Harley Rouda. Rohrabacher has been a strong supporter of Donald Trump and he has served for three decades in the heavily Republican 48th House District in California. “BREAKING: Putin loses proxy war in…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams didn’t give up and vowed to fight until every single vote is counted in Georgia.
One of the major consequences of Democrats winning the House is that if Trump tries to fire Mueller, Democrats will launch an impeachment investigation.
Republicans the House of Representatives, state legislative seats, and governors around the country. Democrats kicked Trump’s ass from coast to coast, but the president is claiming that the midterm was a success.
Beto O’Rourke was praising his supporters for not taking a dime of PAC money when he dropped a perfectly placed f-bomb.