Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.
The Justice Department has released a memo attempting to justify the Administration’s refusal to comply with a subpoena for the President;’s tax returns. Their argument is weak to say the least.
Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway stands credibly accused of multiple violations of Federal law. The President will do nothing about it.
Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump during the campaign and in the White House, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
Beginning tomorrow in a British courtroom, the United States will begin the process of having Julian Assange extradited to the United States to face espionage and other charges.
While the scope of Federal power has expanded beyond the ken of the Framers, this is not an example.
The President is once again claiming Executive Privilege to prevent Congress from getting access to certain documents.
With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.
The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.
The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.
A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.
The House of Representatives will vote to hold the Attorney General in contempt next week but it may not mean anything.
Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.
Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.
Yesterday’s press event with Robert Mueller underscores the importance of congressional testimony.
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash doubled down on his assertion that the Attorney General was deliberately misleading Congress and the American public.
For the first time since being appointed Special Counsel, Robert Mueller spoke to the media regarding his report on the Russia investigation. The news was not good for the President.
Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.
In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.
A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.
President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.
A previously confidential I.R.S. memo contradicts the Administration on the issue of providing copies of the President’s tax returns.
As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.
The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.
The Trump Administration lost what is likely to be the first of many court challenges to its effort to stop Congress from doing what the Constitution requires it to do.
In the latest example of the White House’s ongoing effort to block Congress from exercising its duty to investigate the Executive Branch, the White House is blocking the former White House Counsel from testifying before Congress.
President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt another legal setback to the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the DACA program,
Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has informed Congress that he will not comply with a subpoena seeking the President’s tax returns, meaning that we’re headed for a court battle.
Attorney General William Barr has opened a new investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move that seems suspiciously political.
Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Disturbing news in the Eddie Gallagher case.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to issue a subpoena the President’s tax returns, but whether it will ever see them is unclear.
The President is systematically defying Congress. Whatever can be done about that?
As expected, the House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over a full copy of the Mueller Report
In an effort to block the release of the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Trump Administration is invoking Executive Privilege.
The Treasury Secretary is declining to comply with a Congressional request for the President’s tax returns. Whether this is proper is a question that will have to be resolved by the courts.
Later this week, the House Judiciary Committee will vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, but it most likely won’t go anywhere.
Jack Goldsmith pushed back on “over the top” reaction to the AG’s handling of the Mueller report.
The attorney general hasn’t said a single thing that wasn’t technically true about the Mueller report. But he was dishonest.
Newly discovered evidence shows that foreign governments have expanded their leasing of space from at least one Trump-owned office building in New York City.
Robert Mueller objected to the Attorney General’s characterization of the final report he submitted, reports indicate.
Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.
200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.
In the end, Impeachment is a political act more than a legal one. For that reason, Democrats should not pursue impeachment unless they have a reasonable chance of winning.
