With all the crazy shit going on in the news this week, it would have been understandable to miss that a federal judge ruled Democrats in Congress can move ahead with their lawsuit against President Trump alleging that his private businesses violate the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause ban on gifts or payments from foreign governments. Congressional … Read more
An update to my earlier post, Congress and Americans need to hear from ‘SilentBob’. Former U.S. Attorney Neal Katyal, who drafted the Special Counsel regulations and therefore is the expert on their purpose, intent and meaning, explains at the New York Times why Why Barr Can’t Whitewash the Mueller Report: Many who watched Attorney General … Read more
Remember President Jerry Brown in 1993? Remember President Hillary Clinton in 2009? Well if you went with early Presidential Polling, Brown and Clinton should have been the President according to polls taken months before the first Iowa Caucuses. History played out differently and Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, after the 1992 and 2008 primary and … Read more
Congress and Americans need to hear from “Silent Bob.” No, not this guy …. This “Silent Bob,” Robert S. Mueller III, who has only been “heard” through Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of his Mueller Report, and his March 27 letter to Barr objecting to Barr’s mischaracterization of “the context, nature, and substance of … Read more
For the first time in more than a decade, the House of Representatives held a hearing on legislation to enact a single-payer model of health care in the United States. Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reports, First Medicare for All hearing in the House confirms ‘Health care is a right for all’: [The hearing was … Read more