Biden’s Archivist Pick to Take Helm During Firestorm Over Trump Raid
President Joe Biden’s nominee to the usually obscure and apolitical office of archivist of the United States comes as the agency she hopes to lead is in the middle of the biggest political story in the country. Biden, Aug. 3 announced the nominationColleen Shogan will head the National Archives and Records Administration. Five days later, […]
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Right-Wing Calls for Violence Grow as Trump May Face Espionage Act Charges
Friday’s search warrant was made public. It reveals the following: FBI is investigating former President Donald Trump for three federal crimes, including violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records, after removing top-secret documents when they raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week. Trump calls the investigation a […]
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Ron Johnson Calls Mar-a-Lago a “Pretty Safe Place.” Security Experts Disagree.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) came to former President Donald Trump’s defense over the weekend, claiming that concerns over classified documents that Trump removed from the White House and improperly kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence were overblown. Interview with reporters from Milwaukee-based ABC News affiliate WISNJohnson seemed unconcerned that documents with the highest national security clearances […]
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As Trump May Face Espionage Charges, Rand Paul Calls for Repeal of Espionage Act
As details about the project emerge, boxes of documents that the FBI uncovered at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, far right Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has called for a repeal of the Espionage Act, a law that federal officials may use to prosecute Trump. Saturday Paul wrote in a tweet that the Espionage Act — which […]
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Starbucks Asks for All Union Elections in Its Stores to Be Temporarily Halted
With over 200 unionized stores and dozens of pending union elections, Starbucks has requested that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) suspend all union elections within the company, a move that the union says is “absurd.” In a letterThe letter that Starbucks sent Monday was cosigned by Littler Mendelson’s legal counsel. It alleges that organizers […]
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Recreational Marijuana Question Will Appear on Missouri Ballot This November
The organizers have enough valid signatures to put a question about cannabis legalization on the Missouri general election ballot this fall. Legal Missouri 22, An organization that advocates for recreational marijuana legalization in the state, has collected more than 170,000 signatures in support of legalization — enough to bring the question to a vote, state […]
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Second Trader Joe’s Has Voted to Unionize With Landslide Win
Trader Joe’s workers in Minneapolis won their union election by a landslide on Friday, becoming the second location of the popular grocery chain to form a union just over two weeks after workers voted to form the chain’s first. Workers won their union 55 to 5Friday, or with more than 90 percent of the vote […]
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Judge Rejects Lindsey Graham’s Arguments to Avoid Grand Jury Testimony
A federal judge rejected a motion by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, that would have allowed him not to testify before a special grand jury in Fulton County in Georgia. This is the Georgia grand jury investigating claims that he and his allies attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential elections results in the state. Trump […]
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IRS Agents Targeted Her Patriotic Group in 2013. Now She Says It Could Get Far Worse.
Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin warns that the escalating number of Internal Revenue Service agents under President Obama could signal the return to a politicized tax agency targeting conservatives. “I said back then, if they’re not held accountable, other bureaucrats will think that they are able to abuse the law in an even […]
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The Contest to Replace Boris Johnson Is a Choice Between Austerity and Bigotry
Boris Johnson’s government will go down in history as a record-breaker — just not, however, for achievements of which any prime minister would be proud. His government began badly. He suffered a series of defeats from the House of Commons after he was appointed prime minister. Prime ministers in the British constitution are not directly […]
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