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Former FBI head James Comey says he has never imaged a scenario when a president’s acting attorney general must consider removing himself from DOJ cases involving the president because of his former role as the president’s defense attorney.“I never imagined a circumstance where a president would have a criminal defense lawyer who was the acting attorney general,” said Comey, discussing a CNN report that a high-ranking lawyer warned acting AG Todd Blanche to recuse himself from certain cases or risk ruining them. “So, it seems like it might be new ground they’ve got to look at very carefully,” Comey told CNN anchor Kasie Hunt.You've argued ... in your previous case, that [your prosecution] was po

For several months, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks has been fending off allegations of unethical behavior in office. Then on Thursday morning, he abruptly announced his retirement. According to Washington Examiner reporter Anna Giaritelli, law enforcement agents who worked under him are celebrating. "A Border Patrol sector chief called me this afternoon," posted Giaritelli. "He choked up talking about how horrible his experience was working under Mike Banks. (To have a senior federal law enforcement agent this upset about a boss goes to show just how bad it was.) 'Every field chief, I'm texting probably 10 this morning, it's like Chris

Over the course of President Donald Trump’s second term, there may be no member of his own party who has drawn more of his ire than Senator Thomas Massie (R-KY). Now, with polls showing that a Trump-backed primary challenger may end up kicking Massie out of Congress, Reason magazine editor in chief Katherine Mangu-Ward argues that America would be worse off without the leadership of this “dying breed” Republican. As Mangu-Ward explains, while Trump has called Mass

President Donald Trump and his administration have openly preached for Christianity to shape national policy since he began his second term — yet the vast majority of Americans do not share this agenda.“The religious right has been ascendant during the second presidency of Donald Trump, and they’ve harnessed his disdain for rules and norms to blur the lines between church and state,” reported Vox's Christian Paz on Thursday. “Inside the White House, the secretary of defense has framed the war in Iran and American military action abroad as sanctioned and guid

For nearly a year, President Donald Trump has been engaged in a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, claiming the news outlet had knowingly published “false and defamatory” information about his links to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Now, reports the New Republic, his case has hit a major snag, as a judge declared he can’t use the legal process known as “discovery” to search for evidence of his claims.This decision comes via U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles, who on Wednesday declared, “Thus, allowing President Trump to conduct discovery on actu

Despite the FBI seizing troves of ballots and President Donald Trump’s pledge to “nationalize” elections, Democratic voters are entering the midterms slightly more confident in the process than they were just six months ago,

Before leaving for his flight to China, President Donald Trump was asked if he takes Americans' economic well-being into consideration as he's working on the negotiations with Iran. He answered emphatically that he does not. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody," Trump said. Longtime columnist and political analyst Jonathan Chait explained that it's something that Trump likely said accidentally, but was being honest about. The reason for that is that Trump has never taken Americans into consideration when enacting any of his policies. "But his denia

The Atlantic reports fringe nuts spreading election denier nonsense are now scattering their lies from inside the system thanks to President Donald Trump’s hiring practices.Trump, an election denier himself who still claims without evidence that he was cheated out of his victory in 2020, has hired people like election denier Clay Parikh to push debunked election claims from within the systems he rails against as a

A former supporter of President Donald Trump argued on his Thursday podcast that Americans are lowering the bar for the Republican leader's benefit.“We — all of us — hold Donald Trump to a pathetically low standard we've never held any other politician to,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said on his Substack on Thursday. “We hold Trump to a standard we would hold a two-year-old to if he were in the White House, if he were a public figure. Republican, Democrat, Independent — none of us hold any other politician to this standard. We never have.”He added, “

President Donald Trump has many people he perceives as enemies in Washington, D.C., and few of them have resisted his pressures as successfully as outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Now, a former Obama-era economic adviser argued that he has left behind a "genius" playbook for those looking to beat back the president's threats.Jason Furman is an economist and scholar, best known for chairing the Council of Economic Advisers during former President Barack Obama's second term. On Thursday, he published a new piece for the New York Times, hailing him as a good Fed chair, but an even better opponent to Trump.Powell drew signif