Impeachment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts cemented his role as the Supreme Court’s dominant figure by siding with the four liberal justices in a trio of major rulings this month including Monday’s 5-4 decision striking down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Chief Justice of…

Cohen also complained about Barr’s involvement in the Justice Department’s decision to change the sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump who was convicted of obstruction, lying to Congress and witness tampering. Federal prosecutors had originally sought a prison sentence of seven to nine years…

It would be hard for any attorney general to withstand a deputy attorney general of the same party calling him “the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law.” It would be harder still to withstand congressional testimony from two serving Justice Department prosecutors about his subordination of…

A president’s behavior need not be precedent-setting. June 24, 2020 Professor of law at Yeshiva University BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyTallying up the lengthy list of constitutional harms done by the Trump administration’s extraordinary deployment of National Guard troops and other federal agents to disrupt peaceful protests in Washington, D.C., earlier this month,…

From NPR: The new order — which is expected to come with broad exceptions — comes as the administration continues to wrestle with high unemployment among American workers because of the coronavirus pandemic and tries to kick-start the economic recovery. The order would target H-1B visas, which are designed for…

In 1954, Kevin Green got his Social Security card and started picking cotton for $3 per hundred pounds in a tiny agricultural town in California’s Central Valley. He was five years old. One of seven children, he used the money to buy school supplies. He kept working—and paying into the…

President Donald Trump's longest-serving national security adviser John Bolton condemned his presidency as dangerously damaging to the United States and argued the 2020 election is the last "guardrail" to protect the country from him. In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Bolton offered a brutal indictment of his former boss,…

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2018, file photo, Geoffrey Berman, former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. Berman's firing by President Trump was announced by Attorney General William Barr on Saturday.Associated PressA group of…

There are few things the press and liberal commentators seem to enjoy more than tallying up the empty seats at a Trump rally. They can almost be forgiven for it⁠—Trump’s boasts about crowd sizes against photographic evidence have been among the most consistent and petty examples of his dishonesty, and…

The legal reasoning may look like it turns on obscure technicalities, but the administration’s cases are falling apart because of something much more deeply wrong. June 20, 2020 Former Acting Solicitor General of the United States Executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection Getty / The Atlantic…