The House Judiciary Committee announced on Wednesday plans to investigate President Donald Trump’s proposal to hold the 2020 G-7 meeting at his Trump National Doral Miami Golf Resort, NBC News reported.. “The President’s personal financial interests are clearly shaping decisions about official U.S. government activities, and this is precisely the type of risk that the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses were intended. Facebook Aug 27, 2019
Brazil insisted on Tuesday that it would set conditions for accepting any aid from the world’s richest nations to help fight Amazon fires, saying France couldn’t protect the Notre Dame Cathedral from fire devastation and should focus on its own problems. The increasingly personal feud between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and French leader Emmanuel Macron threatened to derail a pledge.
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote an op-ed last month with a clear message: “Now that I’m no longer in charge of packing the courts, I remember everyone who told me not to!”
We favor non-political courts. Grassley’s presentation is disingenuous and distracts from the nonpartisan reasons to expand and reform the courts.
Grassley’s personal role in packing the courts is difficult to overstate. He is notorious for blocking hearings for Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, and for his role in forcing Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett on the country, the latter while voters were already casting ballots in the 2020 election.
A top New York doctor reportedly visited CNN host Chris Cuomo, brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, several times at his Hamptons home to administer COVID-19 tests; Bryan Llenas has the details from Brooklyn, N.Y.
A watchdog group on Thursday filed an ethics complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for allegedly using his campaign apparatus, including its expansive email list, to boost sales for his pandemic-related book.
Cuomo, a Democrat, was paid more than $4 million for his book, titled American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic, according to the New York Times. The report suggested that Cuomo may have used state resources to help develop the book, which a spokesman denied to the Times.
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Congress needs to take the baton now to prevent presidential corruption. Here’s how.
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Brian Frosh is the attorney general for Maryland.
Mr. Eisen is their former co-counsel in the emoluments litigation and served as President Obama’s ethics czar. He now serves as outside counsel for the nonpartisan Voter Protection Program.
Three and a half years ago, we took President Donald Trump to court over unconstitutional payments he received from foreign and domestic governments through his hotel in downtown D.C. while serving as president. Recently, the Supreme Court declared that our lawsuit and Trump’s appeal of it were moot given that President Joe Biden had taken office. Trump’s departure from the White House may have effectively terminated the case against him, but we still secured a significant victory: Judge Peter J. Messitte of the Maryland federal distr