Roberts says impeaching judges “not an appropriate response” to disagreement

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Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday defending federal judges who have issued decisions against the Trump administration, saying that “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement” with a court’s decision.  “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning

Hunter Biden Whistleblowers Promoted to Senior Treasury Department Posts

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Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler tapped as senior advisers for IRS reform Supervisory IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler at a House Oversight Committee hearing (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The two IRS investigators who exposed details of the investigation into former first son Hunter Biden have been promoted to senior roles

Appeals Court Sympathetic to Trump’s Attempt to Remove Agency Heads

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Two of the judges seemed critical of attempts to temporarily maintain lower court decisions keeping the two agency heads in their positions. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed inclined on March 18 to allow President Donald Trump’s removals of two agency heads who alleged that

Schumer’s Damage Control Falls Flat as Democrats Push for His Ouster

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The Senate minority leader ‘doesn’t want to face the music,’ says a Democratic operative who started a petition against Schumer Chuck Schumer (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is struggling to contain intraparty backlash over his decision to vote with Republicans to avert a government shutdown, as Democrats intensify calls for