In a podcast interview with Mother Jones, tax guru Steven Rosenthal of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center suggested that there is little in the recently released Donald Trump tax returns that he see as fraught with criminality, but that their release is now inviting scrutiny of a $700 million loss the former president reported in […]
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Kevin McCarthy promised on his first day as Speaker of the House that Members would “read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House.” He also promised to “fight for a strong, fiscally responsible, and free America.” Neither of those have happened yet. Instead, during his acceptance speech when he […]
Louisiana police used facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify a suspected thief, resulting in a Black man’s wrongful arrest and imprisonment for a week. It’s not the first time it has happened, and the U.S. has no laws to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. The legal enforcement agencies involved in the recent […]
For the first time since 1923, no candidate for House Speaker won a majority in the chamber’s first vote. Nineteen Republicans voted against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) giving him only 203 votes for Speaker. Comparatively, Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) got 212 votes from Democratic representatives. However, since neither McCarthy nor Jeffries received a […]
Lying Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was hounded by the media during his first day in Congress. Video posted to Twitter showed Santos ignoring reporters while walking around the halls of the congressional building. The reporter asks him how his constituents can trust him despite his lying about extensive parts of his past and what he […]
Louisiana residents who want to access adult web content and pornography online must now enter information from a valid driver’s license or state ID into a program called LA Wallet in order to prove they are 18 or older, according to Mashable. This is thanks to House Bill 142, a new law that went into […]
A statue of John Lewis, the deceased Black U.S. House representative and civil rights activist, will replace a Confederate monument in the congressional district that Lewis once served. Lewis’ statue will replace the Confederate Obelisk Monument, a stone pillar erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908. Superior Court Justice Clarence Seeliger ordered […]
Donald Trump has already raised a massive war chest for his 2024 presidential run, but a new analysis shows he can’t use the bulk of it for his re-election campaign. The Guardian examined the former president’s fundraising operation and found that his small-donor network is dwindling and some high-profile donors have abandoned him, and the […]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing calls for him to be investigated after his wife’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee was released, Newsweek reports. Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas testified that she “never spoke” with her husband about former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but some of her comments are raising […]
During an appearance on “CNN This Morning,” weekend host Michael Smerconish was asked what the future holds for Donald Trump, who is under multiple criminal investigations, and which one expects to bear fruit in the new year. According to Smerrconish – a former practicing attorney — the Mar-a-Lago case looks to be the most promising […]
Donald Trump invited the media for a moment he called “media availability” at Mar-a-Lago ahead of the country club’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration. When the time came, however, Trump spoke for fewer than five minutes and not on cable news stations covering it, including allies like Newsmax and Fox. It was reminiscent of Trump’s […]
In a column for the Daily Beast, longtime investigative journalist and Donald Trump biographer David Cay Johnston made the case that there is enough evidence of financial fraud in the former president’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020 to indict and prosecute him. At issue, he noted, are deductions taken for Trump companies — some […]