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Scott Pruitt, who has called for the dissolution of much of the agency’s authority, has been destroying our Environmental Protection Agency since February 2017. He is a seasoned legal opponent of the agency and likely Trump's most effective minion until recently, working every day to dismantle regulations on climate change and clean water.
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Sometimes we see a headline and click it in disbelief, hoping it can't be true. We wait for the article to load while shaking our head and sometimes it's not as bad as the headline appears. This is not one of those cases. This is beyond belief.
Private-prison companies that allegedly force undocumented immigrant detainees to work for little or no money have a powerful new group of advocates: Eighteen members of Congress.
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In the past few months, America has seen a wave of states introduce anti-abortion legislation. “The anti-abortion movement is feeling emboldened to really kind of take the next step,” said Heather Shumaker, senior counsel for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center.
On March 19th, Mississippi’s governor signed into law the most restrictive abortion measure in the United States, banning all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
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In mid-March Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director, was named by Trump as the replacement Secretary of State for the fired Rex Tillerson. Besides hearing his name a few times, most people don't know anything about Pompeo. That needs to change.
Trump’s new State Department pick is known for his hawkish foreign policy — and for defending Trump at every turn.
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Last week, Trump fired three star General H.R. McMaster and appointed John Bolton and his new National Security Adviser, the third man to hold the role in the past 14 months. The national security adviser job doesn’t require confirmation.
Why are those in-the-know so alarmed by this? Let's briefly talk about Bolton.
John Bolton, the incoming national security adviser, will have the ear of Trump at a perilously fraught moment in world affairs.