The Constitution allows the president to declare a state of emergency only when "the life of the nation is threatened by war, invasion, general insurrection, disorder, natural disaster or other public emergency" and if the ordinary laws and government powers are not sufficient to restore peace and order.
I live in a solidly blue district-- CA-28. The PVI is D+23. Hillary whipped Trump here 72.1% to 22.3%. Some of the country's most Democratic bastions are in the district: Hollywood (plus East and West Hollywood), Silverlake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Atwater, Glendale, Sunland-Tujunga... I have no idea where that 22.3% could possibly be. La Crescenta Montrose? La Cañada Flintridge?
U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo and stated his intentions to make all the depositions taken in the Russia investigation public before the midterm elections.
My congressman, New Dem Adam Schiff, didn't join the new Medicare-For-All Caucus. I bet his constituents would freak out if they know. In fact, though I'm not a betting man, I'd bet a lot on that assertion. Some of the most progressive Democrats in the country live in Schiff's district-- West Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz, Hollywood, East Hollywood, Silverlake, Glendale, and Burbank.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina), unloaded on his Democrat counterpart California Representative Adam Schiff on Thursday. He essentially called the Democrat congressman a liar and a fraud, stating multiple scenarios in which this appears to be the case.
As this hopelessly open-ended investigation rolls on, many are quick to point out the litany of indictments in its wake. The problem, however, is nothing has actually been proven on the remit of collusion. It’s still an epic fail – many in media and government have staked their careers on it.
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | June 7, 2018 If you are wondering why so little is heard these days of accusations that Russia hacked into the U.S. election in 2016, it could be because those charges could not withstand close scrutiny. It could also be because special counsel Robert Mueller appears to have […]
The U.S. House of Representatives’ intelligence committee found ‘no evidence’ of collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, according to the committee’s final report that was released earlier today.
Once Ivanka's job was to shield her idiotic corrupt father; now she has an added burden: her idiotic corrupt husband.
On Saturday, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee released their rebuttal to the Nunes memo.
The counter-memo claims that the “FBI and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’ the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.”
