Richard Neal may well be right, but it won’t be as easy as he might think. The House Ways and Means chair told reporters yesterday that he would sue to force Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to comply with his demand to surrender Donald Trump’s tax returns. “We think the law is unambiguous,” Neal declared in
Sen. Cory Booker speaks during an Iowa Democrats Black Caucus town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, April 16, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Party leaders and 2020 rivals were largely non-committal when asked to comment on the New Jersey senator’s expansive plan. On Monday, New Jersey senator Cory Booker introduced a gun-control plan that’s much more restrictive
Joe Biden delivers remarks at the First State Democratic Dinner in Dover, Del., March 16, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Making the click-through worthwhile: The hilariously ironic implications if Joe Biden’s current polling boost continues and he goes on to win the Democratic nomination; Kamala Harris and the question of what kind of Democrat can win in
Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) As Congressional Democrats prepare to hold attorney general William Barr in contempt over his supposed lack of transparency, it’s worth remembering that he has made available to top Democrats the entirety of volume II of the
HAPPENING NOW: President Trump holds a re-election campaign rally in Panama City Beach, Florida just hours after his Attorney General, William Barr was held in contempt of Congress after a long battle over House Judiciary subpoenas. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7,
As theories go, this is certainly one of them. Was today’s assertion of executive privilege by Donald Trump a strategy to prevent Robert Mueller from appearing before House Judiciary Committee? Chair Jerrold Nadler thinks Trump “will try to stop Robert Mueller,” and says that Trump has “broken the law six ways from Sunday.” “Robert Mueller
Heidi Schreck in What the Constitution Means to Me (Joan Marcus) A Broadway show presents legal analysis crude enough to dazzle progressives. We’ll stipulate that should the end of the American experiment as defined by its current Constitution be imminent, it will probably not be habitués of Broadway theater who do the overthrowing. Nor are
Former President Ronald Reagan in 1991 (Gary Cameron/Reuters) Joe Biden was already in his second term as senator from Delaware when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. What did America’s 40th president think of the man trying to become its 46th? The Reagan Diaries, edited by Douglas Brinkley and released in 2007, provides some answers.
As of this moment, a fragile truce holds in southern Israel. After Hamas volleyed 600 missiles at Israeli civilian targets on Saturday and Sunday, prompting Israel to attack hundreds of targets in Gaza, the air-raid sirens have fallen silent, for now. But over the weekend, when the rockets fell, we saw all the … Read
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The NY Times published a big story today on Trump’s taxes from 1985 to 1994. The upshot is that Trump claimed over a billion dollars in losses during that time and, as a result, paid almost no tax on his income. The numbers show that in 1985, Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from
(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Twitter, Facebook, et al. need transparent, viewpoint-neutral, First Amendment-based content policies. Yesterday, my colleague and podcast co-host Alexandra DeSanctis wrote a piece describing a confrontation between Pennsylvania state representative Brian Sims and an elderly woman who was apparently praying quietly outside a Planned Parenthood office in Pennsylvania. Sims’s actions toward the woman were
Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall meeting in Fort Dodge, Iowa, April 16, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Did the Buttigieg hype hit its peak already? Yes, Pete Buttigieg and his husband are on the cover of Time this week. But since Joe Biden’s formal entry into the race, the South Bend mayor’s standing in the
A man prays during Ash Wedneday services at St. Andrew’s in New York City, 2014. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Until I read Ramesh’s post below, I hadn’t seen Margaret Renkl’s fundamentally misguided op-ed about religious liberty in today’s New York Times. Like me, Renkl writes from Tennessee (she’s in Nashville; I’m in Franklin), and she uses a
“I’m not going to let them bully me out of reporting,” said Tim Pool after recording an Antifa protest where angry activists cursed at him. There might have been violence, but Antifa’s “de-escalation team” protected him, he says. That surprised me. “Antifa has a de-escalation team?” I ask Pool in my latest internet video. “They
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It really is Donald Trump’s party now. Three years ago, traditional Republican donors kept Trump at arm’s distance, or in many cases further than that. Trump returned the favor by declaring his scorn for the GOP establishment and attacking the party’s former nominees for their opposition. As it turned out, everyone could afford to do that
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) speaks after announcing that she is forming an exploratory committee for the 2020 presidential race, in Sioux City, Iowa, January 18, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Campaigning for president Tuesday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand promised to only nominate judges who will uphold Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court precedent that established a constitutional
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign event in Chicago, Ill., March 3, 2019. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) Pundit accountability time: I did not think hard enough about Joe Biden. While part of my brain still screams “sell” on Biden’s chances to the win the nomination, I have to reckon with how strong he seems right now.
In Pennsylvania, an elected official has taken it upon himself to silence his own constituents in the name of the Constitution. State representative Brian Sims, elected in 2012 to represent part of Philadelphia, evidently believes that his job requires him to avoid the state house and instead police the space … Read More
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The executive privilege hammer has struck. Will Donald Trump get nailed for it? According to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House will tell former counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena aimed at records of his work with Trump, and later his testimony. The press secretary told ABC News that the Trump
(James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Federalism isn’t just a fluffy theory. Trump got you down? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez giving you the willies? Try federalism — now with 70 percent less authoritarianism. To the uninitiated, conservatives sometimes sound — to put it plainly — bonkers. Your lefty friends are going on and on about free health care and making
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) With 0 percent support, he has nowhere to go but up. New York is a town that enjoys a good quarrel, but it’s all but impossible to find someone to argue, “I love Bill de Blasio.” Rarely do you meet anyone who can even tolerate Bill
In his latest video for National Review, editor-in-chief Rich Lowry lists five reasons why the campaign against attorney general William Barr is absurd — in two minutes. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> “There have been a lot of ridiculous
Over the last year, I’ve met a growing number of fellow Canadians who have begun to yearn for a Donald to lead the country. They have belatedly recognized that they have a Ronald McDonald at the helm in Justin Trudeau, whose antics may delight children but who is quite incapable in any adult capacity. Most
It’s time to investigate the beginning of this probe and who in the DOJ, FBI, and White House signed on to prevent and overturn the will of the American people. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service,
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin has formally refused a request the Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee to turn over several years of Trump’s tax returns. This wasn’t unexpected but it does set up a future showdown over the issue. From the Washington Post: Mnuchin, in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman
Attorney General William Barr, flanked by Edward O’Callaghan (left) and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, at a news conference to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Department of Justice said Monday that it was “disappointed” with House Democrats’ decision to begin contempt proceedings against Attorney General William
Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper speaks in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) In response to Hickenlooper Makes His Case, Poorly Kevin, Allow me to give John Hickenlooper a few molecules of credit for what he lays out in his Wall Street Journal op-ed. For all of his incuriosity, reflexive faith in government and comforting