While many taxpayers are scrambling to make last-minute payments due to the Internal Revenue Service on April 15 because of changes to tax withholding in the Trump tax bill enacted by a Republican Congress, “many of the country’s largest publicly-held corporations are doing better: They’ve reported they owe absolutely nothing on the billions of dollars … Read more
Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that grand-jury testimony and information may be disclosed only to prosecutors, defendants and other grand juries and that judges may not carve out exceptions to the secrecy already mandated by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The majority (two Republican … Read more
In a chaotic Administration where loyalty is valued over competence and reactionism over pragmatic solutions, the Popular Vote Loser President, currently presiding over the third team of cabinet and administrative heads (not including the posts that have vacancies or are not headed by someone labeled acting before the job title), has decided to nominate two … Read more
For those of you who are C-Span junkies, pop some popcorn and get ready for some key oversight hearings today. Must see TV! Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Bond villain Steve Mnuchin, on Tuesday will be grilled by House lawmakers in back-to-back hearings, where questions about how he plans to handle a formal request for Mr. … Read more
“Trumpism” is the new American fascism, and no one has been a more loyal foot soldier in implementing Trump’s anti-immigrant white nationalist agenda than Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson. She has consistently and repeatedly lied to Congress under oath about the Trump administration’s child separation policy for legal asylum seekers, detaining those children in cages, and … Read more