“If senior officials are processing this grift behind closed doors… that is not just bad optics, it is a direct threat to government integrity.” A democracy advocacy organization is stepping up pressure on the federal government to release more information on President Donald Trump’s scheme to receive a $230 million payout from the US Department of Justice. Democracy Forward on […]
“Healthcare costs are skyrocketing and federal workers aren’t getting paid. What is Trump doing? Building his gold plated ballroom.” A demolition crew on Monday began tearing down the East Wing facade of the White House in order to make way for President Donald Trump’s luxury ballroom, in a project that one journalist said “captures” the president’s approach to leading the country. […]
“The Trump administration doxxed an American citizen, endangering her and her children. This is completely unacceptable and flat-out wrong.” The Trump administration has not only sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran megaprison due to an “administrative error” and so far refused to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the United States, but […]
“Good lawyers, regardless of ideology or party, will remain undeterred in the honorable pursuit of our profession,” wrote the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Legal advocacy groups have issued a sharp rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s directive aimed at holding “accountable” law firms and lawyers that, according to him, “engage […]