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Reading Time: 4 minutesMueller is a man out of time. This is the age of alternatively factual tweets and sound bites; he’s a by-the-book throwback who expects Americans to read and absorb carefully worded 400-page reports. Has he met us? His high standards sometimes manifest as touching naïveté. “I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner,” Mueller said today, explaining that his report was his testimony and that Congress should not expect him to answer questions with any new information.

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May 23, 2019 Confluence

VANITY FAIR: “IT’S NOT OFF THE TABLE”: DEMOCRATS BEGIN DRAWING A RED LINE FOR IMPEACHMENT

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhile the impeachment debate unfolds among House Democrats, many are looking to the courts to force transparency and compliance on the Trump White House. “I think so much is going to depend on the courts. What I have described is that we are at a constitutional impasse or a constitutional hardball,” Congressman Ro Khanna told me. “What happens next is dependent on the courts. If the courts rule against the administration and the administration defies a court order, then I think it is a full-blown crisis.”

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May 21, 2019 Confluence

Hufpo: Democrats Inching Closer To Impeachment

Reading Time: 6 minutesAs 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 minuteTrae 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 minuteThis 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 minuteThis 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 minutesBy 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 minutesMueller 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.