This unfortunate and hopefully soon-expiring moment in U.S. history, Donald Trump’s presidency, has been anything but subtle in summoning the worst energies, impulses, and dimensions embedded in the nation’s history and still animating contemporary culture and politics. If it hadn’t been clear during his 2016 campaign when he characterized Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals,…
This term’s Supreme Court rulings prove that America’s democracy is destined to survive the incompetent dictator-wannabe currently occupying the White House. Without question, the rule of law and democracy won. The unanimous finding among Supreme Court Justices across the ideological spectrum used various methods of legal analysis to find that the president is not above…
When Trump appointed anti-public school lobbyist Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, he made it abundantly clear that he detests America’s public education system. On Friday Trump ordered Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to review American universities’ tax-exempt status after he threatened to cutoff federal funding to any schools that refuse to reopen despite the virulent Trump…
Attorney General William Barr is claiming that he recommended against clemency for Roger Stone and the DOJ had nothing to do with it.
Speaker of the House Pelosi said that Congress will act to take away Trump’s ability to use pardons and commutations to shield himself from criminal prosecution.
The last-ditch attempt by some Republicans to jump off the MAGA train will likely be too little, too late to make a difference.Â
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham appeared to have advance knowledge that Trump was going to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence.
It increasingly looks like Mitt Romney is the only Republican in the United States Senate with a shred of honor and decency.
