By Trace Thompson – Rick Neighbors, a candidate for Congress in Alabama’s District 4 in North Alabama, called on Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall to join 25 other state attorneys general in calling on the U.S. Department of the Treasury to take immediate action to ensure billions of dollars in emergency stimulus payments authorized by…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Says He’s Perplexed, Appalled By Trump and Attorney General William Barr – By Glynn Wilson – Donald J. Trump is far from the first American president to manipulate the justice system for partisan political purposes. But like everything else Trump does, his abuses of power are just far bigger and…
By Glynn Wilson – A group of 15 attorneys general in states across the country filed a lawsuit this week to stop the Trump administration from eliminating food stamp assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans. The lawsuit challenges a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule that would limit states’ ability to extend benefits from the…
By Glynn Wilson – Maryland just joined 13 states in potentially groundbreaking legal action to hold the big oil companies accountable for their actions and products which scientists agree contribute to climate change and results in damage to the infrastructure of cities and states from rising sea levels, changes to the hydrologic cycle and increased…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A three judge panel of federal appeals court judges has overruled a lower court and allowed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to go forward for violations of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by Trump hotels and restaurants for illegally profiting from business with foreign…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Monday he is joining a coalition of 20 attorneys general in states across the country in filing a lawsuit opposing the Trump administration’s new proposed rule allowing the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody along the border of Mexico…
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments announced a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday over the Trump administration’s proposed new Affordable Clean Energy rule, which rolls back decades of regulations aimed at cleaning up air pollution from coal-fired power plants and virtually erases progress by the Obama administration’s…
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of six state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the Trump Environmental Protection Agency for continuing to allow the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on crops that end up contaminating common foods and endangering the neurological development of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a significant blow to Donald J. Trump’s legal attempt to block a lawsuit and investigation into how his private business practices violate the anti-corruption emoluments clauses in the U.S. Constitution, a federal court denied a series of motions by attorneys for the president this week and allowed…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Expresses Concerns About Attorney General William Barr’s Objectivity in Pending Investigations of the Trump Administration – By Glynn Wilson – It seems we may have reached the point of crossing the Rubicon with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. You may recall that the phrase refers to Julius Caesar’s crossing of…
By Glynn Wilson – In stark contrast to the fearless federal prosecutor President Donald J. Trump has worried about for the past two years and a majority of the American people have expected to hear from when Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued his investigative report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, the nearly full…
William Barr, President Donald Trump’s most recent appointee as U.S. Attorney General, held a press conference Thursday morning on the eve of Easter Weekend. In advance of his release of a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the president or his…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump didn’t waste any time in showing his true priorities just a day after he and the country learned of his apparent exoneration in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his involvement in conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. Trump and his Department of Justice reversed…
Mueller Report Delivered to Congress, Attorney General Barr Releases Summary Letter – By Glynn Wilson – In one of the most disappointing moments in the history of American democracy and jurisprudence, Attorney General William Barr released a short, four-page letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing the key findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report after…
By David Underhill – Associate Editor – Moneyed men can usually win the silence or compliance of troublesome women by paying them off. It’s news when this traditional strategy fails, as with Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and CBS chief Leslie Moonves. And even these recently fallen exceptions succeeded for decades in wielding their wealth and…
Editor’s Note: It may not be crystal clear where the Federal Bureau of Investigation stands in credibility these days considering the tensions with the Trump White House related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian tampering with the 2016 presidential election. But the agency and its new director, Christopher Wray, are going out of…
By Glynn Wilson – New American Journal Editorial Board – Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe is an American hero who may one day soon get the credit he deserves as the key figure who saved American democracy from a Trump dictatorship. That is if we have the will to do what it takes to…
Four Iranians Also Charged With a Cyber Campaign Targeting U.S. Intel Officials – By Glynn Wilson – Russia is not the only country with teams of hackers targeting government computers in the United States in campaigns that threaten out cybersecurity. It just seems the president likes Russia and his Justice Department doesn’t like Iran. A…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, is expected to sail through the confirmation process in the majority-Republican United States Senate in the next few days, although some key Democrats will vote against him on substantive grounds, worried that he may limit the scope of Special Counsel Robert…
Federal agents served warrants Friday at Stone’s residences in New York and South Florida – By Nicholas Sakelaris – Jan. 25 (UPI) — Roger Stone Jr., a political operative and friend of President Donald Trump, has been indicted on seven criminal charges in the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, including making false statements and witness tampering.…
