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News & Views | 10/8/19

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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will not cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"There is no legal basis for Trump's position. Hard stop."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Wow," said the federal judge hearing the case. "The department is taking an extraordinary position."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The Trump administration blocked Gordon Sondland, his ambassador to the European Union, from giving a highly-anticipated testimony to three House committees on Tuesday as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump—intensifying speculation that the president is hiding information about his request for foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential election.



by Jon Queally, staff writer
"When we're in the beginning of an ecological and climate collapse," said the lawmaker who introduced the measure, "I hope we can re-think our relationship with Nature."


LGBTQ rights advocates

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Civil rights advocates rallied on Capitol Hill Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for three related cases—including its first on trans rights—in which, as the ACLU put it, "the Trump administration is urging the court to rule that it's legal to fire workers for being LGBTQ."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We welcome their hatred," said Sanders adviser Warren Gunnels



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Washington Post-Schar School poll also found 49 percent of Americans want the House to call for president's removal from office

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To win reelection, Trump, a corrupt con man (who jumped ship on his own bankrupt casinos, money in hand, leaving others holding the bag) will cheat and lie. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Andrew Bacevich
High crimes and misdemeanors of the fading American century.


The anonymous donors who are contributing record amounts to Trump’s campaign don’t wear MAGA hats. They don’t go to public rallies. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cc)

by Jesse Jackson
The Trump economy doesn’t work for most Americans, but it works for his donors. They’re all in on the con.


It is difficult to see in what way Russia is benefited by Turkey’s incursion into northeast Syria. (Photo: @LevHavryliv/Twitter)

by Juan Cole
Washington’s crusade against Iran and Russia (in the latter case with the exception of Trump) is irrelevant to this move, which is mainly about the Kurds and America’s further betrayal of them after they defeated ISIL for us.


Trump has rarely been held accountable for his bad behavior. He seems not to enjoy the experience. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Eugene Robinson
For now, Trump can cling to the fact that lily-livered Republicans still fear his wrath.


Multinationals can all too easily relocate their headquarters and production to whatever jurisdiction levies the lowest taxes. (Photo: Joe Brusky/flickr/cc)

by Joseph Stiglitz
In the face of climate change, rising inequality, and other global crises, governments are losing out on hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue as a result of corporate tax arbitrage. Yet despite the obvious deficiencies of the global tax regime, policymakers continue to propose only...


For the LGBTQ civil rights movement, this is a big moment. (Photo credit should read MOLLY RILEY/AFP/Getty Images)

by James Esseks
A bad ruling would strip away protections against discrimination that LGBTQ people have been able to use to protect themselves for two decades.

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