Impassioned Law Experts Testify: If the Ukraine Scandal Isn’t Impeachable, “Nothing Is”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Constitutional law expert Michael Gerhardt warned Congress Wednesday that failure to impeach President Donald Trump could set a dangerous precedent for future commanders in chief. “If what we’re talking about is not impeachable, nothing is impeachable,” the professor at University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill said during the House…
“This Wall Can’t Be Climbed,” Trump Said. A New Video Says Otherwise.
Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall on September 18 in Otay Mesa, California. Evan Vucci/AP “Me, I don’t want to climb mountains,” President Donald Trump said in September, standing in front of construction of a new portion of his border wall in California. That’s why, he said, he’d hired a team…
Carbon Emissions Are Up in 2019 Yet Again
In news that should shock no one, the forecasters at the Global Carbon Project estimate that carbon emissions increased yet again in 2019: Needless to say, we are supposed to be cutting carbon emissions if we want to have any chance of preventing the planet from incinerating by the time our grandchildren are grown. But…
“President Trump Has Committed Impeachable High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Expert Testifies
Jacquelyn/Martin Based on the evidence presented so far, President Donald Trump committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors, Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman—Democrats’ first witness at the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing—testified Wednesday. “High crimes and misdemeanors are abuses of power and of public trust connected to the office of the presidency,” Feldman said. “On the…
The Supreme Court Is Tackling an Important Superfund Case and It’s—Messy
The U.S. Supreme Court building at sunset.Bill Clark/AP For decades, Anaconda Company Smelter operated an enormous copper smelting factory in Opportunity, Montana. And for more than seven decades, that factory spewed tons of toxic waste, mostly arsenic, into the community’s soil and water supply. In 1983, the EPA made Opportunity one of its Superfund sites, and…
Former Google Employees Say They Were Fired for Labor Organizing
Eric Risberg / AP Four former Google engineers have accused the company of firing them “for engaging in protected labor organizing” and say they’re planning to file an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. Writing on the Medium page of Google Walkout for Real Change—which organized thousands last year to protest sexual…