WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump warned this week that he might use a never-before-invoked power under the U.S. Constitution to adjourn the Congress unless it took steps to confirm a number of his appointments. But lawmakers and legal scholars say the move is unlikely and not actually permissible in the way the president is trying to use it. “It’s a huge unprecedented power grab for the […]
“That’s banana republic stuff,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, a constitutional law expert. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to adjourn both chambers of Congress so he can unilaterally ram through judges and political appointees amid the coronavirus pandemic, a move Democratic lawmakers and legal experts said would be dictatorial and unconstitutional. During a press conference in […]
WHITE HOUSE – The United States is “going to put a very powerful hold” on money it sends to the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, blaming the United Nations humanitarian entity of missing the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. “They called it wrong. They missed the call,” Trump told reporters […]
A Fairbanks man was charged with Terroristic Threatening for a COVID 19 threat as well as other charges after being pulled over in a traffic stop on Friday afternoon, troopers reported. Troopers pulled over a suspect, later identified as Conrad Isaac, age 48 just before 2 pm after AST based in Fairbanks received a […]