McConnell has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tobacco industry, and some of his former staffers now lobby for tobacco giant Altria.
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Trump’s NLRB Is Picking a Fight with Graduate Students
And graduate students are looking to fight back.
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Does the Civil Rights Act Protect Gay Employees? The Court Will Decide.
And the conservative justices will have to choose between their self-proclaimed allegiance to what a law says and their social biases.
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Trump Loses Opening Round in His Efforts to Defy Congressional Oversight
A federal judge finds that the precedents are heavily on Congress’s side. Will the Supreme Court agree?
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The House Now Has a Constitutional Duty to Impeach Trump
When the framers designed the Constitution to protect against tyranny, they had a moment just like this in mind.
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Congress Should Be Ready to Arrest Attorney General Barr if He Defies Subpoena
How lawmakers can counter the president’s most dangerous power grab yet.
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Trump Did What Nixon Did, but Today’s GOP Won’t Convict
With the assistance of Fox News and its ilk, Republicans have cocooned themselves against all evidence.
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Most Devastating of All: Mueller’s Indictment of Trump’s Character
Even though Mueller apparently doesn’t believe a sitting president can be indicted, he provides a devastating indictment of Trump’s character.
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The Bad History Informing the Impeachment Debate
Cautious Democrats seeking to avoid impeaching Donald Trump are making a mangle of the past and misreading the present.
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Getting Serious About Power
Can we learn something about the right’s strategic coherence without emulating either their ideas or their contempt for democracy?