House Judiciary Committee to subpoena Mueller Report and witnesses (updated)

Today is the deadline congressional committees have set for Attorney General William Barr to produce the full unredacted Mueller Report to congressional committees. Barr will certainly not comply with congressional demands. As Michael Bryan pointed out in his post about our constitutional crisis, Barr keeps adding categories of information he intends to redact from the … Read more

Climate Lobby Seeks AZ Dems’ Endorsement of Carbon Dividend Act

The Citizen’s Climate Lobby (CCL) has called on the Arizona Democratic Party to endorse H.R. 763, the bi-partisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. The lobby is a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization that addresses climate change. Democrats will consider the idea at their statewide meeting on April 13, 2019, at Rincon High School, 421 … Read more

The imperial president threatens to close the U.S.-Mexico border

Jonathan Swan warns at Axios, “President Trump and his chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, have realized they’re passing no major legislation through this divided Congress.” Trump goes it alone: [T]he Trump team is busy figuring out ways to go over the heads of Congress. The one exception is drug pricing.) What to expect: More executive orders, … Read more

The Trump Constitutional Crisis Has Arrived

Let me be the first to say, if Trump releases the Mueller Report in full, I’m dead wrong about most of what I’m saying. I hope that happens, and that I’m just wrong. But if Trump doesn’t release the Report and starts to make excuses, the crisis is coming. The Mueller Report will be the … Read more

Republicans wants to take away your healthcare, Democrats want to expand it

The Trump administration had previously argued to the federal court that the Affordable Car Act aka “Obamacare” protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be struck down — while blatantly lying to voters that Republicans wanted to protect people with pre-existing conditions last year — but is now arguing to the federal court that the entirety … Read more