Biden Gave Trump’s Union Busters a Taste of Their Own Medicine By MARK JOSEPH STERN JAN 22, 20211:16 PM President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday. Alex Wong/Getty Images TWEET SHARE COMMENT Twenty-three minutes after assuming the presidency, Joe Biden demanded the resignation of Peter Robb, the notoriously anti-union general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board appointed by Donald Trump. Robb refused to resign, so Biden fired him. Alice Stock, another anti-union Trump appointee, then assumed the role of acting general counsel—and Biden demanded her resignation the next day. Stock also refused to resign, so Biden fired her, too.
Biden fired Peter Robb and Alice Stock, Trump’s union busters at the National Labor Relations Board.
Donald Trump’s pardons must not obstruct justice
Abuses of constitutional clemency power should be investigated and prosecuted LAURENCE TRIBE
If, as Alexander Pope reflected in 1711, “to err is human, to forgive, divine,” then the US Constitution’s pardon power — the prerogative of forgiveness — should be beyond reproach. Instead, a godless US president who appears incapable of forgiveness has seemingly perverted this instrument of mercy into another grave threat to the rule of law. Donald Trump’s recent twisting of the pardon power risks leaving a damaging legacy: a blueprint for manipulating this vestige of royal prerogative to place presidents and their cronies above the law. But a remedy exists: investigation and potential prosecution. We must treat any obstructions of justice we uncover as the crimes they are.Financial Times
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Did Emperor Nero (Trump) really play fiddle (Golf) while Rome (Nashville) burned?
“Nero, the fifth Roman emperor, is among the most despised figures from history for his horrific cruelty to early Christians and, as the legend goes, for playing the fiddle while Rome was consumed by fire.”
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/did-emperor-nero-fiddle-while-rome-burned-true/
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NYTimes: I’m Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department
I’m Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department https://nyti.ms/3rpYk4W
By Erica Newland
Ms. Newland worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department from 2016-18.
Quote “I never harboured delusions about a Trump presidency. Mr. Trump readily volunteered that his agenda was to disassemble our democracy, but I made a choice to stay at the Justice Department — home to some of the country’s finest lawyers — for as long as I could bear it.” https://nyti.ms/3rpYk4W
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Tracking deregulation in the Trump era – How much is he really COSTING the WORLD?
The Trump administration has major deregulatory ambitions. But how much deregulation is actually happening? This tracker helps you monitor a selection of delayed, repealed, and new rules, notable guidance and policy revocations, and important court battles across eight major categories, including environmental, health, labor, and more. For a more thorough explanation of the tracker, including guidance on how to use its interactive features and an explanation of how entries are selected, click here. Sign up here to subscribe to the newsletter, which will include select updates from the Deregulatory Tracker as well as new research from the Center on Regulation and Markets. Whether you support or oppose ongoing regulatory changes, Americans have the right to participate in the regulatory process and to comment on these proposed rules. Read more on here on how to submit the most effective comments on proposed
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Trump admits he is undermining USPS to make it harder to vote by mail | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Donald Trump admitted on Thursday he opposed additional funding for the United States Postal Service (USPS) in order to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots.
Trump’s comments lend evidence for critics who say the president is deliberately trying to hamstring the USPS in advance of the November elections to help his re-election bid.
via Trump admits he is undermining USPS to make it harder to vote by mail | Donald Trump | The Guardian
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Extortion As National Policy? President Trump Demands ‘Key Money’ From A TikTok Sale To Microsoft Or He’ll Ban TikTok In The U.S.
On Monday President Trump unabashedly told reporters that a “very substantial portion” of a sale price of TikTok to Microsoft MSFT +1.6% would go the Treasury. He called it “key money.” The alternative? Mr. Trump will shut down TikTok in the U.S. on September 15th.
Key money is a dated term used in real estate transactions. It’s money a prospective tenant would pay under the table to a landlord, building manager or even another tenant to secure a lease. Think of a middle school bully demanding another student’s lunch money in exchange for safe passage.
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The President’s Private Army
It doesn’t take a legal expert to know that what’s happening in Portland, Oregon is an abuse of power. When unidentified federal forces dressed as soldiers pull people off the streets into unmarked vans, something is gravely wrong. What’s less apparent is that this abuse is part of an ongoing effort by the administration to get around “posse comitatus”: the principle that the president cannot use the military as a domestic police force. The implications for the rule of law — and potentially for the 2020 election — are staggering.
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Germany US troops pullout: Trump’s last gift to Putin before the election? – CNNPolitics
It has taken America’s 45th president almost four self-serving and destructive years to reach this point, but in pulling the trigger on withdrawing troops from Germany, one-third of the total stationed in the country, he has signaled an end to what Franklin D. Roosevelt, America’s 32nd president, conceived as a post-World War II order based on common interest and collective aspirations.
via Germany US troops pullout: Trump’s last gift to Putin before the election? – CNNPolitics
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The painful truth about Covid and the economy – Trump is to blame | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
“The recovery has been very strong,” Donald Trump said on Monday. Then the commerce department reported the US economy contracted between April and June at the fastest pace in nearly three-quarters of a century, which is as long as economists have been keeping track. The drop wiped out five years of economic growth.
But pesky facts have never stopped Trump. Having lied for five months about the coronavirus, he’s now filling social media and the airwaves with untruths about the economy so he can dupe his way to election day.
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