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Laws that limit presidential power won’t enforce themselves – Congress must act.
Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
Russian media both hint toward the Russian regime’s prowess in influencing the US election, while simultaneously treating the accusation as baseless Western propaganda.
Pundits have been keen to link post-truth to post-modernists, post-positivists or any other ‘postie’. They should turn their energy to forming a real popular front against Trump’s faux populism.
Donald Trump had never run for a political office before becoming President. Given the rush of Trump scandals in the two weeks since Trump fired FBI director James Comey, Congressional Republicans probably…
The investigation is likely to end in one of two ways: the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, or the beginning of his second term.
A president has more than one route out of office – voluntarily or otherwise.
Could Trump be removed from office? Answering that question is less about understanding the law and more about counting votes.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump dramatically sacked FBI director James Comey. There has been speculation that Comey was fired in an attempt to prevent an FBI investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia. While such…
And the president could learn plenty from the fate of a complacent Richard Nixon.
Conflict of interest laws are often not cut and dried. They involve interpretation by lawyers within the Justice Department and judges.
For a president who has transgressed so many of the conventions which make our democracies civilised and decent, respect is not an entitlement. It must be earned.
An expert in political rhetoric singles out Trump’s repeated use of reification – the tendency to treat people as things – and the role it’s played in his tortured response to the leaked tape.
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