Biden’s prospective attorney general, Merrick Garland, reaffirmed that the AG should be the lawyer for the people of the United States, not for any one individual.
- September 15, 2020
Today’s big story is the growing threat of violence on the part of Trump loyalists in the administration, including the president himself.
- September 8, 2020
The fifth volume of the Senate Intelligence Report came out on August 18 and, in the storm of other news, has gotten less attention than it should have. According to Republicans—as well as the Democrats on the committee—in 2016, Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was actively working with a Russian intelligence officer.
- July 16, 2020Bill Moyers talks with Legal Contributor Steven Harper.
- July 14, 2020
Media coverage of Trump’s commutation of his associate Roger Stone’s prison sentence has pushed the Russia bounty story out of the headlines. Knowing Trump’s skill at distraction, it’s hard to believe this is a coincidence.
- July 11, 2020Roger Stone is a convicted felon. Trump just let him off the hook.
- July 11, 2020
Tonight’s news dump felt different to me, as if Trump has realized that he is in trouble in the upcoming election, and rather than trying to court the independent voters he needs to win reelection honestly, is focusing instead on doing all he can to protect himself from indictments and to charge up his base. First, though, while there is much political news, the biggest story remains the coronavirus. Today the US had more than 68,000 ...
- June 25, 2020Today the politicization of the United States Department of Justice was on the table in Congress.
- June 29, 2017Jones felt burned by his treatment on Megyn Kelly’s show, but the Infowars “performance artist” should have known their interview had nothing to do with journalism.