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FOCUS: Bob Bauer | The Strategic Underpinning - and the Limits - of the Republican 'Due Process' Defense of Donald Trump

Bob Bauer, Lawfare
Bauer writes: "Impeachment is both a political and a legal process. It is not unconstrained by precedent, nor is it controlled by it."
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The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, holds the gavel amid a vote on a resolution that sets up the next steps in the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Thursday. (photo: Tom Brenner/Reuters)

House Holds Historic Vote Passing Resolution to Formalize Trump Impeachment Process
Tom McCarthy and Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "For only the third time in the history of the modern presidency, the US House of Representatives voted on Thursday to formalize impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States."
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Charles Pierce | Our Rapidly Blossoming Authoritarian State Is Headed to Another Level

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Charles Pierce | Our Rapidly Blossoming Authoritarian State Is Headed to Another Level 

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "I have a deeply embedded - and I think, perfectly understandable - distrust of the American 'intelligence community.' That being said, holy hell, this is something I don't like to hear."
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Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, May 28, 2015. (photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Sanders Calls for National Ban on Right to Work, Presses Candidates to Stand With Unions
NH Labor News
Excerpt: "U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders today called for a national ban on right-to-work laws, and for every candidate running in 2020 to explicitly stand with unions in their organizing drives across the country. He also demanded American Airlines back off its push to slash airline workers benefits as it pays its CEO more than $19 million a year."
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks to St. John's Episcopal Church, for morning services, across from the White House, in Washington D.C., March 24th 2019. (photo: Cliff Owen/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

Everyone Is Asking for the Mueller Report, and You Can Too
Joshua Eaton, ThinkProgress
Eaton writes: "It's been two weeks since Attorney General William Barr told Congress that special counsel Robert Mueller had finished his investigation."
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Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows. (photo: Tom Williams/AP)

Republicans Are Warning Drug Companies Not to Cooperate With a Congressional Investigation
Paul McLeod, BuzzFeed
McLeod writes: "In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices."
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A woman experiencing the effects of tear gas. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

St. Louis Police Request Permission to Use Mace, Tear Gas on Non-Violent Protesters
Jay Connor, The Root
Connor writes: "In September of 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri sued the city of St. Louis and its police force after officers responded to peaceful demonstrations with excessive force."
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An Israeli-Arab woman casts her ballot on April 9, 2019, in the village of Kafir Qasim. (photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel Election Scandal: Netanyahu's Party Hires 1,200 to Secretly Film Arabs Voting
Allan Smith, NBC News
Smith writes: "As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces what is likely to be a tough re-election fight Tuesday, his Likud party has confirmed reports that it hired and gave cameras to 1,200 polling station observers in what it said was an effort to expose voter fraud, The Jerusalem Post reported."
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The Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona, is scheduled to close. (photo: Getty Images)

Coal's Days in Navajo Country Are Numbered
Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American
Storrow writes: "Before the arrival of the U.S. Army in the mid-1800s, four mountains marked the boundary of the Navajo's ancestral homeland. Today, the tribe could draw a line around its reservation with coal."
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People try to blame Obama for racial issues in America.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Republican obstruction and poorly hidden racism caused almost every problem we're seeing right now.

If Trump is elected, you will finally understand.

America will erupt into racial violence like you have never seen, and no walled estate will be safe.

Trumpians have taken the lid off of Pandora's Box, just like America did by toppling Saddam Hussein.

I pray I'm wrong, but I am a student of history.