For Republicans on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump may finally have gone too far ( Read more... )

Harvard Constitutional Scholar Calls For Trump Impeachment Probe

A top Harvard constitutional law professor is calling for an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, branding the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey as an “obvious effort to interfere with a probe involving national security.”( Read more... )

As the news broke late this [Monday] afternoon, the politicos of Washington stared into their smartphones, stunned, struggling with what to make of it. TV networks cut into their regularly scheduled programming. Chyrons promising “breaking news” actually delivered it: President Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey.

Though the story is ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON ― Let’s step back for a minute and consider again what we saw Monday in a hearing room of the U.S. House ( Read more... )

By Robert Kuttner (who also wrote the "The Inevitability of Impeachment," which I posted last week ( Read more... )

Trump has been trying to govern by impulse, on whim, for personal retribution, for profit, by decree ― as if he had been elected dictator. It doesn’t work, and the wheels are coming off the bus. After a week ( Read more... )

Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this, the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to undue influence by other nations, including ( Read more... )

Rope Made From Non-racist Fabric for Non-racist Lynching Un-American Traitor.

Tea Partiers Protest At White House: 'Hang The Lying Kenyan Traitor'

Tea partiers shouted obscene, racist chants on Wednesday while gathered outside of the White House to protest President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

Right Wing Watch reported that among the ( Read more... )

... for what they say has been inadequate enforcement of the health care law they tried over 50 times to repeal.

WASHINGTON -- A day before going on vacation and heading into the election season, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday authorizing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to sue President Barack Obama for ( Read more... )

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 24, 2013

WASHINGTON - ON the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Kerry Bentivolio, a Michigan congressman, has a dream, too: to impeach the nation’s first black president.

“If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true,” the freshman Republican told a ( Read more... )