Pam Bondi, Trump’s Tigress, Takes Center Stage. The two-term attorney general is almost certain to be confirmed by an incoming Republican-controlled U.S. Senate, but will they even try to probe whether she’ll be independent of Trump and his minions?
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Will Sinclair Target Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse?
Just because New England didn’t vote for Donald Trump doesn’t mean that region of the country is immune to the influence of Trump-friendly media, including the influence of a prominent station in Providence, Rhode Island: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy,” WJAR-TV anchor Frank Coletta tells the camera in a recent segment about “biased […]
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Why Mueller Teaming Up With NY Attorney General Matters
Presidents can’t issue pardons for state offenses, and that’s potentially bad news for Paul Manafort.
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The Men Who Knew Too Much: Exxon’s Climate Cruelty
What they did was nothing short of sick, nothing short of twisted, nothing short of unforgivable. No wonder one of their executives couldn’t wait to serve the Trump agenda. As David Roberts observes, ExxonMobil’s behavior has been every bit as reckless, selfish and vile as the behavior of the 45th President: The world’s largest oil […]
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No Network Found: What Bernie and Bill Didn’t Discuss
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has long been one of the strongest voices for aggressive action on climate change on Capitol Hill, and Bill Nye has long been one of the strongest advocates for pro-science policy in the United States, so it was quite disappointing that their recent Facebook Live discussion about the need to take […]
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A Legal Strategy That May Have Run Out of Gas
Is the effort to hold ExxonMobil legally accountable for its reported chicanery on the risks of climate change effectively over already? It’s still unclear exactly why Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker gave up on his efforts to obtain documents from ExxonMobil that could have shed light on whether the fossil-fuel behemoth violated anti-fraud laws. […]
