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U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects a second tax overhaul to be unveiled in October or a bit earlier, and he is considering cutting the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 21 percent. ]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he is not looking for a new chief of staff to replace John Kelly but at some point, "things happen." ]

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in cities across the United States on Saturday to demand the Trump administration reverse an immigration crackdown that has separated children from parents at the U.S-Mexico border and sparked plans for military-run detention camps. ]

One of President Donald Trump’s leading prospects for the U.S. Supreme Court has in the past said that presidents should not be subjected to civil lawsuits, criminal investigations or even questions from attorneys while in office. The person in question is U.S. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony … Continue reading "Trump Prospect for High Court Thinks Presidents Can’t Be Sued Or Investigated" ]

Trump's Ambassador to Estonia, James D. Melville Jr., resigned in disgust after Trump's series of attacks on US allies in Europe. ]

Trump fled DC before the immigration protests began, but the protesters found him and still gave him eyeful near his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course. ]

A choir from Canada, made up of children who are refugees from Syria, has canceled its planned trip to sing at an international choir festival in Washingon, D.C..  The reason cited by the choir spokesperson was President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban which was upheld this week by the U.S. Supreme Court. “What if our … Continue reading "Canadian Choir Cancels U.S. Trip To Protect Children From Trump" ]

Civil Rights icon, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) told a Trump immigration policy protest in Atlanta that they must vote like they have never voted before. ]

Watch the live protest outside the White House against Donald Trump's immigration policy. ]

Hundreds of people gathered on Friday evening to remember the five people gunned down at a community newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland, one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history. ]

Five newspaper employees, four of them journalists, were killed on Thursday in a Maryland newsroom when a gunman opened fire in what police said was a targeted attack on the offices of the Capital Gazette group in Annapolis, the state capital. ]

U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nuclear talks with the United States, NBC News quoted U.S. officials as saying. ]

Billionaire Democrat donor Tom Steyer called for a “nuclear war” to stop President Trump — then took back his comment after the interviewer called his point “sobering.” “Maybe we can have, like, a nuclear war and then we get a  real  course correction,” Steyer told The Rolling Stone  in an interview published Friday. He was elaborating on his belief that it is imperative for Congress to impeach Trump immediately, because the “checks and balances system” set up in the constitution isn’t working, and the only other option is to wait around for economic disaster and war. Here’s the exchange between Steyer and Tom Dickinson: DICKINSON: In a recent interview you suggested not impeaching Trump is normalizing him. What do you mean? STEYER: Once you don’t speak up against lawlessness, lawlessness is permitted. … It’s like being at a dinner party and somebody makes a racial slur and you speak up and say, ‘I think that’s really wrong, and you should take that back,’ and every...

Liberal media outlets have more than lived up to the “fake news” moniker President Trump bestowed on them following the election, after they ginned up the term to excuse Hillary Clinton’s loss. Now they are using the Annapolis shooting to assert they should no longer be criticized by President Trump — or anyone in the press — for shoddy reporting. The man who killed four journalists inside the Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday had a long running beef with the paper, because it reported in 2011 he was convicted for harassing a woman online. He sued for defamation, but the judge threw out his case. There is zero evidence his decision to open fire in the newsroom had anything to do with media criticism Nevertheless, journalists are trying to use the dead reporters as a shield against future criticism of their work. “I don’t ever want to hear the phrase ‘fake news’ ever again,” tweeted CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins. I don’t want to hear the phrase “fake news” ever a...

Lately a lot of people have said they are unhappy with the U.S. agency called ICE (which stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement).  This is mainly because President Donald Trump has put ICE in the very difficult position of having to enforce his zero tolerance immigration policy, arresting all adults who cross the U.S. border … Continue reading "Trump Tweets That Democrats Want to Eliminate All Police" ]

On Friday Canada announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States while General Motors announced that Trump’s new tariffs would cause job cuts in the near future. In Ottawa, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a list of new items that will be subject to import duties beginning in July. The items on the … Continue reading "Tariff Troubles: Canada Retaliates While GM Announces Job Cuts Ahead" ]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would raise the issue of alleged Russian meddling in U.S. elections during his planned meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki next month. ]

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told Rachel Maddow that constitutional questions about Trump being indicted would be fair game if Senate Republicans hold Supreme Court nominee confirmation hearings. ]

Six months after California made recreational marijuana use legal, the so-called "Weed Apocalypse" arrives this weekend, as tight state regulations going into effect on Sunday have dispensaries scrambling to unload non-compliant product. ]

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for the top U.N. migration job was roundly rejected on Friday after a candidacy that was dogged by a history of social media posts disparaging Muslims and overshadowed by Trump's policies on migrants. ]

Every two years, a small league of political scientists and economists fire up computer models they've developed to predict who will win the U.S. congressional elections in November. ]

The U.S. Supreme Court seat left open by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy is a powerful motivator for voters, particularly Democrats, in this fall's midterm election fight for control of Congress, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. ]

Nicolle Wallace and her panel wrecked the big lie that Trump is too incompetent to commit crimes and collude with the Russians to win an election. ]

A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Kentucky from implementing work requirements in its Medicaid program, potentially dealing a blow to the Trump administration's effort to retool the 50-year-old health insurance program for the poor and disabled. ]

A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted the FBI access to a storage locker, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump's former campaign manager is trying to suppress, according to testimony on Friday in a federal court hearing in Virginia. ]

Rod Rosenstein said privately that Trump administration manipulated him into writing the memo that justified the firing of James Comey, and that the full story will vindicate him. ]

"Fake news" is the chant Trump started to generate hatred toward journalists, along with saying they are the enemy of the people. So when the White House repeatedly includes "innocent" as qualifier to who shouldn't be shot, it's not meaningless. Context matters. ]

A week ago we reported that the U.S. House of Representatives passed a major piece of legislation called the “Farm Bill” that included significant changes to the federal food stamp program. Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed its version of the Farm Bill and, as we predicted last week, it does not contain the House food … Continue reading "Senate Passes Farm Bill With No Food Stamp Changes; Battle Looms In the House" ]

SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEDERALIST RADIO HOUR HERE. Senior Editors Mollie Hemingway and David Harsanyi host the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss Thursday’s deadly shooting in Maryland, Justice Kennedy’s retirement, journalists’ outrage about fake news, and to ironically argue about civility. “When you think about all the social activism that has been accomplished through the Supreme Court, against the voting will of the people, there’s a reason why the left is concerned,” Hemingway said. “That’s their primary means of shoving things down people’s throats.” Listen here:

Not that it matters what the American people want, unless they all show up to vote their conscience, but 2/3s of Americans do not want the Supreme Court to do Republicans’ biding by overturning Roe V Wade. A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll found 67% of the public do not want the Supreme Court to … Continue reading "Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Don’t Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade" ]

Trump has attacked the press for three years, but after the Capital Gazette shooting, he said journalists should not be attacked. ]

The Trump White House is suggesting that there is a difference between innocent and "non-innocent" journalists, and only innocent journalists don't deserve to be shot. ]

Earlier today we reported that “Former President Obama is planning to come back into American politics and campaign for Democratic candidates in September ahead of the November midterm election.” And now POLITCO has reported that the popular former president spoke to an event for the Democratic National Committee last night and said people are “right … Continue reading "Obama Warns Democrats: You Are Right to Be Concerned" ]

If the polls are right, Mexico will elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador president on Sunday, July 1. He’s the founder of the left-wing Morena Party and a career politician. López Obrador ran for president unsuccessfully twice before, but this time polls show him as the front runner. The 64-year-old was elected mayor of Mexico City in 2000. Should he ascend to the presidency as predicted, his radical ideas will spell trouble for both Mexico and the U.S. for several reasons. Mexico’s Hugo Chavez López Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement party (Morena) openly wants to bring Bolivarian revolution in Mexico, despite the ongoing economic and humanitarian crisis  in Venezuela. Key players of the party  are enamored with Latin American dictators including Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. Although López Obrador tries to cast himself as a moderate, many of his critics see similarities between him and Hugo Chavez. Like Chavez, López Obrador is char...

Donald Trump is behaving like a man who knows his time is short.  He got his wish of a retirement from his pal Justice Anthony Kennedy and now it is being reported that he will announce his replacement pick by July 11th.  Clearly this is a man in a hurry. While Trump is trying to … Continue reading "Trump Rushes To Announce Court Pick by July 11 While Dems Demand Delay" ]

Yesterday a lot of speculation came out about Anthony Kennedy’s motivations for retiring from the Supreme Court, and what his connections are to the Trump family.   For example, someone wrote on Democratic Underground: “Given the reported ties between Anthony Kennedy and Trump/Kushner there should be a thorough investigation of Kennedy and his family to … Continue reading "New Claims: Justice Kennedy Was Bought Off and Must Be Investigated" ]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out part of a lower court ruling that had invalidated a series of state legislative districts drawn by Republicans in North Carolina for failing to resolve claims that the lawmakers intended to diminish the clout of black voters. ]

Before the recent controversies over Donald Trump’s zero tolerance and family separation policies at the U.S. border, most Americans had never heard of an agency called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  Now, however, ICE is well known and quite notorious, and is being blamed for implementing Trump’s draconian immigration policies. As a result of the … Continue reading "Nearly 20 ICE Special Agents Ask Nielsen to Eliminate ICE" ]

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, will be sentenced on Sept. 7, a judge ordered on Thursday.Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, will be sentenced on Sept. 7, a judge ordered on Thursday. ]

Former President Obama is planning to come back into American politics and campaign for Democratic candidates in September ahead of the November midterm election. ]

Nearly three out of every four Americans (72 percent) surveyed last week said “traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false or purposely misleading” at least some of the time. Axios commissioned the story and gave it a bad headline on an otherwise fine article. Although the question dealt with not just fake but also purposely misleading news and though the overwhelming majority of Americans expressed concern, the headline was “ 92 percent of Republicans think media intentionally reports fake news .” Making “fake news” a Republican-only issue when it was reported a concern of 72 percent of all Americans, including a majority of Democrats and a whopping 79 percent of Independents, is itself an example of how the media report news in a misleading fashion. The manner of reporting might also explain why Republicans are more likely than Democrats to witness purposely misleading news reports, much less be frustrated by them. On Thursday, Wendi Winters, John McNam...

The open spot on the Supreme Court places a spotlight on the constitutional role of a politician known for being unprincipled and caring more about getting and staying in power than about achieving the small-government agenda of the Right—but who at least is being decisive and effective and getting something done that no one has managed to do before. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, who will have the power to appoint a new justice to the spot opened by Anthony Kennedy’s retirement. I’m talking about Mitch McConnell, whose leadership of the Republican majority in the Senate has given him the power to confirm Supreme Court appointments or let them die in limbo. McConnell is notorious as the embodiment of the dreaded Republican establishment. He has the bad reputation of someone who clings to power no matter whether he delivers in any of his party’s actual agenda—like, say, repealing Obamacare. But he has delivered on one big thing. He delivered on the Supreme Court. Back in 20...

Justice Clarence Thomas opened the door to future Supreme Court sparring over an issue with profound legal and practical implications that go well beyond Trump’s travel ban in his concurring opinion in Trump v. Hawaii . Thomas — the underappreciated revolutionary of the Supreme Court, in the sense of his work to restore founding principles in the law through philosophically consistent originalist jurisprudence – called into question the very idea that a single federal judge in Hawaii can impose an injunction barring a presidential executive order against anyone nationwide in the first place. If his words are any indication, the practice of issuing “universal injunctions” may face the scrutiny of the highest court in the land. He writes: Injunctions that prohibit the Executive Branch from applying a law or policy against anyone…have become increasingly common. District courts, including the one here, have begun imposing universal injunctions without considering their authority t...

Thursday morning, progressive Christian writer Rachel Held Evans wrote a Twitter thread about the possibility that Roe v. Wade may be overturned once Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is replaced. Rather than make some kind of cogent-but-wrong progressive argument, she leapt straight to some completely unjustifiable insinuations about pro-life people. Basically, in her now-deleted thread, she claimed that pro-life people’s opposition to abortion is based on a belief that most saved babies would be white, and that if we knew that the saved babies would be black, we would probably be pro-choice. While the thread is gone, this screencap is illustrative: Deleted tweet: pic.twitter.com/3xPwglcfrm — Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) June 28, 2018 Rhetorically, the tweets sounded even-keeled, but they represent a phantasmagorical world. Unfortunately, rather than rebut her position with facts, some on Twitter apparently responded to Evans with threats and insults , which is what le...

Despite his claims to the contrary, the author whose sardonic wit lit up the tobacco industry in the 1994 novel Thank You For Smoking may not have left political satire. He’s simply turned back the clock a few years to when the bounty hunting was good and the tomfoolery was easy. Christopher Buckley, the heir of William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review and the “St. Paul of the conservative movement,” has spent the past four decades crafting a flourishing career from the absurdities of American politics. But the Trump administration shot its snarky messenger. Buckley claims that the “self-satirization” of American politics sent him running wounded into the arms of—historical fiction. The Judge Hunter , Buckley’s second historical novel, romps through early colonial New England in a comic quest to bring law and order to New England. Published in May, The Judge Hunter is a fun and punchy sock in the nose to both Old and New England’s histories, with their tendencies to ...