Day: May 17, 2019

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Mnuchin rejects subpoena for Trump tax returns

Steven Mnuchin defied a congressional subpoena seeking six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, all but guaranteeing a federal court battle with Congress over the records.

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Trump Is So Incoherent That He Is Killing His Own Border Wall

Trump is ignoring the job of being president, but he is obsessing over and personally designing his border wall to the point of failure.

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Obama Unveils Unity Fund To Build A Strong Party To Topple Trump

Former President Barack Obama announced that the Democratic Unity Fund which will be used to back the party’s nominee with a strong organization.

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Former FBI Official Destroys Trump’s Claim That His Campaign Was Spied On

Former FBI Solicitor General James Baker said that the Trump campaign was never spied on or subjected to data collection techniques.

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U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin defies House subpoena for Trump’s tax returns

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that he would not meet a congressional demand for six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, all but guaranteeing a federal court battle with Congress over the records.

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Opinion: Kamala Harris Is A Profile in Courage and Breaking Barriers

Kamala Harris broke barriers at every stage of her career. Now she’s going for the one between women and the White House. Everything about Kamala Harris is so much more than merely not being Trump. Though I will concede she is as much the opposite of Trump as one would want to be. I’m not…

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Trump’s diversion of billions for border wall faces first U.S. court test

By Tom Hals (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to divert more than $6 billion to build a wall on the border with Mexico faced its first court test on Friday, as a lawyer for the House of Representatives said Congress never approved the funding. The hearing opened with Douglas Letter, on…

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When Calling for Impeachment Don’t Forget About Vulnerable People Under Attack

It would be a lie to tell you that I don’t think this president deserves to be impeached, or that I don’t agree that the rule of law is imperiled if he is not impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Intellectually, impeachment is the only answer to the immoral, unlawful attacks on democracy that are Donald Trump’s presidency.

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Missouri assembly passes restrictive abortion bill, days after Alabama

The lower house of the Missouri General Assembly passed a bill on Friday to prohibit women from seeking an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy, days after Alabama enacted the most restrictive abortion law in the United States.

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House Democrats Make History By Passing Sweeping LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Bill

House Democrats passed a historic and sweeping LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill on Friday.

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Second U.S. appeals court rules Trump cannot end protections for ‘Dreamers’

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump cannot end a program that shielded from deportation immigrants brought into the country illegally as children, the second time the administration has lost an appeal on the issue.

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Republicans Are Running Away From Their Own Toxic Platform on Abortion

Republicans are very busy running away from Alabama’s tough abortion law, even though they not only enabled this exact situation by stealing a Supreme Court seat from President Obama and then installing two exceptionally far-right extremists to the bench but also, their platform insists on personhood for a fetus.