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A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

December 1, 2024 Constitutional, Greater, Watergate, crisis, than0 comment

Updated at 10:17 a.m. ET on December 1, 2024 For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush…

Texas AG Ken Paxton accuses Biden administration of ‘aiding and abetting’ cartels in border crisis

December 31, 2023 administration, Texas, border, cartels, aiding, Paxton, abetting', Biden, accuses, crisis0 comment

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday that the immigration policies of the Biden administration and the Department of Justice are “aiding and abetting” cartels in the record surge of illegal entries at the southern border. The Washington Times stories: White House

The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden’s Core Foreign-Policy Claim

October 12, 2023 crisis, Claim, Israeli, ForeignPolicy, CORE, Testing, Biden's0 comment

President Joe Biden’s core foreign-policy argument has been that his steady engagement with international allies can produce better results for America than the impulsive unilateralism of his predecessor Donald Trump. The eruption of violence in Israel is testing that proposition under the most difficult circumstances. The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast Biden supporters want to project. On Tuesday, Biden delivered a powerful speech that was impassioned but measured in denouncing the Hamas terror attacks and declaring unshakable U.S.…

Hamas attack on Israel thrusts Biden into Mideast crisis and has him fending off GOP criticism

October 8, 2023 attack, Biden, Criticism, Israel, crisis, into, Mideast, Hamas, Fending, thrusts0 comment

The deadly Hamas militant attack on Israel and the massive retaliation it provoked from Jerusalem have thrust President Joe Biden into a Middle East crisis that risks expanding into a broader conflict and has left him fending off criticism from GOP presidential rivals that his administration’s policies led to this moment. The Washington Times stories: White House

Biden, Costa Rica president meet at White House to address migration crisis

August 29, 2023 Biden, House, crisis, White, address, Meet, Costa, Rica, Migration, president0 comment

President Joe Biden hosted Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves at the White House on Tuesday as they discussed how to grapple with a record number of migrants in the region headed toward the U.S. The Washington Times stories: White House

This Debt Crisis Is Not Like 2011’s. It’s Worse.

May 5, 2023 debt, crisis, This, It's, like, worse, 2011’s.0 comment

On its surface, the unfolding debt-ceiling crisis looks a lot like the confrontation in 2011 between congressional Republicans and then-President Barack Obama. Once again, a new GOP majority in the House is using the threat of a national default as leverage to force a first-term Democratic president to agree to spending cuts in exchange for lifting the federal borrowing limit. A first-ever default could crash the markets and trigger a recession. But, as in 2011, the two parties remain far apart, with a deadline to act approaching rapidly. Eric Cantor…