In a blistering new column at Yeomans Work, Alliance for Justice Fellow Bill Yeomans dissects President Trump’s latest attempt to justify his refusal to cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry.
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AFJ: Keep Kavanaugh’s Record in Mind For New Supreme Court Term
In just one year, Justice Kavanaugh has already proven his willingness to rubber-stamp the Trump Administration’s attacks on our democracy and constitutional rights while ruling against our nation’s most vulnerable communities.
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A Court Ruled, Again, That Trump’s Accounting Firm Must Turn Over Financial Documents To House Democrats
Rao was Trump’s second appointee to the DC Circuit and is the newest judge on that bench. Liberal advocacy groups opposed to her nomination earlier this year expressed concerns that Rao’s writings as an academic showed she would too deferential to executive power, and said her dissent on Friday showed those fears were founded. Nan Aron, president of Alliance for Justice, wrote a series of tweets denouncing Rao’s position.
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Can a 501(c)(3) Advocate for Impeachment of a Federal Office Holder?
While the IRS gives no direct guidance on what 501c3 public charities can do or say to support or oppose impeachment, there are related laws that speak to possible risks.
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Traynor’s Tweets
President Trump nominated Daniel M. Traynor on September 19, 2019 to the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota. In the past few years, Traynor has frequently taken to Twitter to criticize liberals on health care and immigration, spread right-wing conspiracy theories, and show his strong support for President Trump and his agenda.
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So Long Stare Decisis
The promise to respect and follow precedent – made by so many of our nation’s nominees to the federal bench – has turned out to be a flexible vow for many. Strikingly, the additions of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court seem to have made the Roberts Court more determined than ever to do away with the pesky little hurdle responsible for keeping vital public protections in place: precedent. The influence of these new justices has only amplified the tendency of the Court’s longstanding precedent skeptic, Clarence Thomas, to attack precedents he dislikes.
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Trump Goes Full Wizard of Oz
The great and powerful Donald tweeted that in his “great and unmatched wisdom” he was withdrawing troops from Syria and if Turkey took advantage, he would “totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey,“ as he claimed to have done before. It was difficult to read the tweet without envisioning a projection of a giant skull-like head with steam rising all around as it boomed out the words.
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Trump is Standing in the Middle of Fifth Avenue
Donald Trump famously said as a candidate that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone without losing support. He appears determined to test his boast. Trump is standing in the Oval Office with the smoking weaponry of the presidency aimed at the heart of our democracy. Trump’s bet is that he’ll get away with it; that he is not constrained by the constitutional guardrails that limit a president. Here are some things to watch as his bet plays out.
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