Section: US & Canada
Pelosi Names First Director For Office Of Whistleblower Ombudsman
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has named an official director for the newly established House Office of the Whistleblower Ombudsman. The new director, Shanna Devine, previously worked as an advocate for whistleblower rights at Public Citizen, a public interest organization in D.C., according to a statement from Pelosi. The office was...
Trump Conscripts the DOJ Into His Re-Election Campaign
Four federal prosecutors quit the case against President Donald Trump’s dirty-trickster ally Roger Stone on Tuesday afternoon after the Justice Department intervened in Stone’s favor by recommending a reduced sentence per the president’s wishes. The seismic blow to the department’s tradition of independence was somewhat...
How the US Should Respond to UN’s Latest Anti-Israel Action
This week, the United Nations gave new ammunition to Israel’s enemies. The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report including a database of businesses active in Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories in compliance with U.N. Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/43/71. Of the 112 businesses...
Did Trump Tell Barr to Cut Stone Slack? Who Cares?
Let’s come back to this brief exchange we had last night with TPM Reader HR and TPM Reader TB. No one believes this was anything more Barr’s effort to be corrupt more effectively and with less press attention. The only question was whether it was all stage managed with Trump or whether it was actually Barr saying ‘Hey, I’m...
Trump Ignores AG Barr’s Request to Stop Tweeting About DOJ
President Donald Trump on Friday ignored his attorney general’s public request to stop tweeting about the Justice Department, saying he had the legal right to ask the agency to intervene in a criminal case, but he’s so far “chosen not to.”“The President has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.” A.G. Barr This...
Giuliani Claims Dems Want To ‘Literally Kill’ Him Due To His Ukraine Ramblings
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, said Thursday night that Democrats want to “kill” him because of supposed insider information he has about Hunter Biden and Burisma. “We are going to reveal the whole thing,” Giuliani promised Fox Business Network host Trish Reagan about evidence of unsubstantiated Democratic...
Trump Now Freely Admitting He Sent Giuliani To Ukraine After He Previously Denied Doing So
Now that he’s been acquitted, President Donald Trump is now free to finally admit that he did, in fact, send his lawyer to Ukraine after all. Trump made the astonishing confession on Thursday during a podcast interview with Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera. “Was it strange to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine, your personal lawyer?” Geraldo...
8 days after his acquittal, Trump openly admitted sending Giuliani to hunt for dirt on Joe Biden — reversing a key part of his impeachment defense
Trump previously denied directing his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt against Biden, his Democratic rival, in Ukraine. …read more Source:: Business...
The Critical Legal Theory of Bill Barr
Thursday afternoon, Attorney General William Barr appeared on ABC to demand that President Trump quit making him look bad. Trump’s tweets, said the attorney general, “made it impossible to do my job.” Barr has been intervening in cases in ways that work to protect the president. Those interventions become much more...
How a $25 Billion Canal Is Carving a Rift Through Erdogan’s Turkey
Land prices are booming in Sazlibosna. Over a tulip-shaped glass of tea in one of the village’s cafes, local governor Oktay Teke says that a few years ago, a square meter of land here in the farming community northwest of Istanbul sold for as little as 10 Turkish lira, about half the price of a pack of cigarettes. Recently, speculators have...
