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Renée Graham Here we are — again — embroiled in another pointless debate about who is and isn’t black enough.  JEFF JACOBY Benjamin Harrison had an illustrious family name and a gift for public speaking. He also had a personality problem.   Thomas commented as the Supreme Court declined to take up a Massachusetts lawsuit involving Bill Cosby.   Ground Game US Senator Bernie Sanders enters the 2020 presidential race with political advantages that his rivals could only dream of having. But he also has one major obstacle.

MORE reportedly asked former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker late last year whether the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a Trump ally, could take over the investigation into money paid to two women who alleged they had affairs with the president, among other subjects. The New York Times reported that Trump requested that U.S.

House Democrats are digging into the Trump administration’s dealings with Saudi Arabia, making its plan to sell nuclear technology to the kingdom the subject of the first major investigation by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. The investigation was announced Tuesday in conjunction with the release of an interim report that details allegations made by unnamed whistleblowers that senior White House officials ignored warnings from legal and ethics advisers to stop pursuing a plan to build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.

Sen. MORE’s reelection campaign blasted him as a socialist. But there are serious questions as to how effective such attacks will be, given that polling indicates a broadening popularity for ideas that were once on the left fringes of American politics. Fifty-four percent — a clear majority — of adults nationwide who were surveyed for a CNN–SSRS poll conducted in late January and early February support a government-provided national health insurance program.

MORE on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate Jeffrey Rosen, the current deputy Transportation secretary, to be the next deputy attorney general. If confirmed, Rosen would replace MORE, who oversees the special counsel investigation into Russian election meddling.  Rosenstein plans to leave the Department of Justice next month, according to the Washington Post. Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Attorney Gener

Democrats are up in arms over MORE’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, but they also see political gold in his highly controversial power play. Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) is raising money off Trump’s executive action, while early polls indicate Trump’s decision is broadly unpopular with voters nationwide. Republicans are battling among themselves over whether to allow the president’s declaration to stand.

Newsom used his “State of the State” address Feb.

Some of the organizations helping to promote the Green New Deal have ties to financing from billionaire George Soros and trace their roots to such radical groups as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez posted an 11-page Google document in the form of a nonbinding legislative resolution that has become the most authoritative version of the Green New Deal, a broad outline for the current conception of the socialist-style plan. Ocas

“Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democrat socialist said in an email to supporters. “Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.” Sanders, who enthusiastically embraces proposals ranging from Medicare for All to free college tuition, stunned the Democrat establishment in 2016 with his spirited challenge to Clinton.

This teachers union effort, called #RedforEd, has its roots in the very same socialism that President Trump vowed in his 2019 State of the Union address to stop, and it began in its current form in early 2018 in a far-flung corner of the country before spreading nationally.