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Trump Can Prosecute Anyone Now

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Justice has become his private law firm, devoted less to the impartial administration of justice than to blackmailing, intimidating, and persecuting Trump’s foes while selectively enforcing the law to spare allies who break it. The chairman of the Federal Reserve reveals that the Justice Department has been attempting to blackmail him into lowering interest rates with the threat of a federal indictment. The…

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Don’t Draft Our Daughters—or Anyone Else

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Last year, Congress considered a very bad and ill-considered idea. With no debate and no real scrutiny, there was an effort to add to the annual National Defense Authorization Act a provision to require young women to register for military conscription. The provision was dropped. Proponents will quietly try to add it again this year. It’s still a bad idea. Conservatives in Congress should have nothing to do with this wrongheaded proposal. Before Congress blithely signs off on drafting our daughters, it first ought to consider the question—is that what…

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Ilhan Omar is unlike anyone who has served in Congress. This is her complicated American story. – The Washington Post

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Ilhan Omar is unlike anyone who has served in Congress. This is her complicated American story.  The Washington Post MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar stepped to the edge of the stage in front of about 400 Richfield High School students and squinted into the lights. More than … “us congress” – Google News

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