Click:Piping bag making machine In early March, President Trump sent four tweets accusing his predecessor of wiretapping the phones in Trump Tower in the months before the 2016 election. The tweets were just the latest manifestation of Trump’s preoccupation with Read More …
Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency, was explaining to CNBC’s Joe Kernen that the Paris climate accord was “a bad deal,” with provisions that were “not an America First type of approach,” when Kernen asked him if they could cut to the “nitty-gritty.” Did Pruitt believe Read More …
Early on Monday morning, a couple of hours before the start of the first House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's involvement in the Presidential election, one of Donald Trump’s closest White House advisers made a startling—and completely erroneous—prediction: James Comey, Read More …
With a one-sentence order last week, the Supreme Court dashed hopes of a big transgender-rights decision this term. The Court was supposed to review the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen-age boy who sued the Gloucester County School Board Read More …
In Donald Trump’s America, “normal” is a word that invites nostalgia. It was so rarely heard during Trump’s chaotic first month in office that, on Monday, the Times posed the following question to a panel of political scientists, law professors, and former Read More …
On Thursday afternoon, when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, unanimously, against President Donald Trump, it emphasized that it was well aware that courts "owed substantial deference" to the executive branch on matters of immigration Read More …
Less than two days after President Trump signed an executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, lawyers in four states have, as promised, taken him to court and won. The first ruling came on Saturday night from the Eastern Read More …
Two weeks before a special election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District seat, which takes place this Tuesday, the thirty-year-old Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff stood on a busy North Atlanta street corner brandishing a lightsabre. His combatant was a giggling eight-year-old Read More …
As the prospect of a Trump Presidency became real last year, a number of leading experts on ethics and corruption called on the U.S. General Services Administration, which oversees federal contracts, to cancel the Trump Organization’s lease to operate the Read More …
Click:China flower supplier This weekend, President Trump was mostly up to his usual stuff, popping off on social media, peddling unfounded conspiracy theories to divert attention from stories he doesn't like, and generally acting in an alarming, obnoxious manner. But Read More …