Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is demanding “urgent answers” from Attorney General Pam Bondi over a memo suggesting that President Donald Trump may have used the classified documents he improperly removed from the White House at the end of his first term for his own financial gain. In his letter, Raskin said the memo in question — which…
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Congressman Jamie Raskin said the US Department of Justice’s decision Monday to abandon its legal cases against law firms that refused to capitulate to President Donald Trump should serve as “a reminder that those who fight back against authoritarianism are winning.” The DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to dismiss its cases against law firms including Perkins…
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had “nothing to do with” Jeffrey Epstein. But his name reportedly appears in the unredacted files at least a million times, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said on Tuesday after being granted access to the documents. Raskin told Axios that he searched Trump’s name in the files on Monday, and it came up “more than a million times.
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Several members of Congress are expected this week to review hundreds, if not thousands, of files relating to disgraced financier and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, amid claims that files are being improperly redacted and that victims’ names have been wrongly released to the public. The Epstein Files Transparency Act — which passed last fall after considerable opposition from…
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In an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Witt over the weekend, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) indicated that a nationwide general strike might be the next thing needed in order to oppose President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Raskin made clear to viewers of the program that he didn’t believe a general strike, on its own, could bring about huge changes, but rather that it had to be done in…
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After months of reporting, President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday officially announced that it is restricting the number of refugees for this fiscal year to 7,500, with most spots going to white South Africans — a policy swiftly denounced by human rights advocates and Democrats in Congress. “This decision doesn’t just lower the refugee admissions ceiling. It lowers our moral…
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