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May 21, 2019 Confluence

Hufpo: Democrats Inching Closer To Impeachment

Reading Time: 6 minutes As the pressure builds on impeachment, the Judiciary Committee is moving to enforce its subpoenas and penalize those who violate them.

Traditionally, the next step in the oversight process would be to hold officials in contempt with a vote on the House floor. From there, the House would try to enforce its subpoenas by referring the uncooperative officials to the Justice Department for prosecution or filing a lawsuit in federal court. The problem with that strategy is the Trump administration can simply decline to prosecute its own officials, and the court battles could take years.

Still, opening impeachment proceedings isn’t inevitable, and Pelosi could stall such a move longer by more promises of investigation.

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May 17, 2019 Confluence

Trae Crowder: Alabama’s up to their old woman-hatin tricks again. Don’t hit for me.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Trae Crowder: Alabama’s up to their old woman-hatin tricks again. Don’t hit for me.

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May 17, 2019 Confluence

This women-led brewery is challenging industry stereotypes while giving back

Reading Time: < 1 minute This women-led brewery is challenging industry stereotypes while giving back 💪

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May 9, 2019 Confluence

Busy Philipps Discusses Personal Abortion in Response to Georgia’s ‘Heartbeat’ Bill

Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘I’m telling you this because I’m genuinely really scared for women and girls all over this country.’ — Busy Philipps opened up about having an abortion at 15 to protest Georgia’s ‘heartbeat bill’

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May 8, 2019 Confluence

Broward County Jail Inmate Tammy Jackson Gives Birth Alone in Isolation Cell

Reading Time: < 1 minute This woman gave birth alone in an ‘isolation cell’ — now an investigation into this negligence is underway

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May 8, 2019 Confluence

Editorial: When the President is Above the Law We Can No Longer Peddle the Fairy Tale of a Democracy

Reading Time: 4 minutes By publicly and procedurally taking a stance that the President of the United States will dismiss the authority of the Congressional branch of government, he has stepped into the role of a dictator unchallenged. Without all three branches of our government, we have lost our checks and balances and without them, the rule of law regarding our president and his appointees is defunct.

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May 7, 2019 Confluence

NY Post: Ex-prosecutors: Trump would have been charged if he weren’t president

Reading Time: 1 minute “We emphasize that these are not matters of close professional judgment,” the prosecutors said. ”But, to look at these facts and say that a prosecutor could not probably sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice - the standard set out in Principles of Federal Prosecution - runs counter to logic and our experience.”

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May 1, 2019 Confluence

The Root: Robert Mueller Wrote a ‘Bish, What?’ Letter to the Attorney General After Barr Remixed the Special Counsel’s Report

Reading Time: 4 minutes Mueller punted. That’s the takeaway here. Mueller could’ve concluded that that the president did or didn’t commit obstruction of justice. The report he created described at least 10 significant episodes of possible obstruction of justice. But Mueller, who we already know knows how to work a phone because he surely called Barr to complain about his four-page summation, couldn’t call someone to ask if he had to adhere to a long-standing Justice Department policy that says a sitting president cannot be indicted and for that reason, here we are. Mueller punted and Fred Flintstone Face ran it back for a touchdown.

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April 25, 2019 Confluence

Armed Vigilante Group The United Constitutional Patriots is Illegally Arresting Migrants at New Mexico Border

Reading Time: < 1 minute A right-wing paramilitary group is illegally detaining migrants at gunpoint at the U.S.-Mexico border

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April 24, 2019 Confluence

New York Times: In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment

Reading Time: 5 minutes Most people aren’t going to read the nearly 500-page report. Republicans have already seized on Barr’s words — and on the lack of criminal charges in a document that was never going to contain criminal charges — to claim total vindication for Trump. The president’s manifest disloyalty to the country in trying to halt an investigation into a foreign attack on an American election is, to the right, of no account. Nor are the counterintelligence implications of Mueller’s findings, which aren’t part of the report. In the eyes of the president’s supporters, his campaign did not participate in the criminal conspiracy that helped elect him, so no more needs to be said.

The reaction to the report shows that between the minority of Americans who support Trump and the majority who do not, there may no longer be even the possibility of a shared sense of reality or national purpose. Even as exemplary a figure as Mueller cannot change that.