New evidence becomes available almost daily in impeachment proceeding (updated)

A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Friday that Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, can provide Congress with evidence in his criminal case that is of interest to impeachment investigators. The Washington Post reports, Giuliani associate can give impeachment investigators phone data, documents seized by prosecutors, judge says: U.S. … Read more

The Kupperman gambit fails, on to Don McGahn’s appeal on Friday

A federal judge on Monday dismissed and declared moot (.pdf) a lawsuit by former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman, who was seeking a ruling on whether to comply with a subpoena in the House’s impeachment inquiry or a directive from the White House blocking his testimony. Kupperman and his former boss, former national security adviser John … Read more

The first break in the fever of Evangelical devotion to the personality cult of Donald Trump

Televangelist Reverend Billy Graham came to regret that he had “sometimes crossed a line” into politics. His son Reverend Franklin Graham has had no such qualms about giving his full-throated support to President Donald Trump. An early advocate of Trump’s candidacy, he has remained stalwart even as multiple scandals have piled up. The Reverend Franklin Graham Offers an Evangelist’s … Read more