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handout / Reuters Why Would Jared Kushner Trust Russian Officials So Much?
A Washington Post report suggests the president's son-in-law and adviser sought to give Moscow information he wanted to conceal from America's own intelligence agencies.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Report: Jared Kushner Asked Kislyak for Use of Russian Communications Facilities
The Washington Post reports that the president’s son-in-law suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities to create a secret channel to Moscow.
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Stringer / Reuters The Lesser Part of Valor
Preston Brooks, Greg Gianforte, and the American tradition of disguising cowardice as bravery
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Mike Blake / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Agenda for the Civil-Rights Division
The Trump administration's budget envisions staff reductions and a diminished focus on traditional civil-rights enforcement.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Questions About Obstruction Now Spread to White House Staff
Reports that presidential aides asked senior intelligence officials to help shut down the FBI investigation put those staffers in legal jeopardy.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Can Jeff Sessions Be Independent?
Recent revelations suggesting the president pressured his now-ousted FBI director raise questions about the attorney general’s autonomy.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Tragedy of James Comey
The former FBI director’s attempts to protect the bureau’s independence may have fatally compromised that independence.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Blind Eye
The new attorney general makes it clear that when it comes to abuses in local policing, Americans are now on their own.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters ‘This Is McCarthyism!’
In an early-morning tweetstorm on Saturday, the president accused his predecessor of a 'Nixon/Watergate' wiretapping scheme against the Trump campaign.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Unforced Error
The attorney general’s testimony about communications with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign has landed him in hot water.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters When Does Contact Between the FBI and the White House Cross the Line?
The administration admits to asking the bureau’s deputy director to help it knock down a damaging story about the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts.
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Marc Serota / Reuters The Scandal That May Haunt the New Nominee for Labor Secretary
R. Alexander Acosta was the head of the civil rights division at the Department of Justice in the Bush administration when subordinates skirted civil-service laws and engaged in politicized hiring.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Should Jeff Sessions Recuse Himself From the Russia Inquiries?
Justice Department regulations appear to suggest the attorney general should not be involved in any investigations into Trump associates’ ties to Russia.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Cynical Selling of Jeff Sessions as a Civil-Rights Champion
The new attorney general had strong conservative credentials, but no record as a civil-rights advocate. So his defenders invented one.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Fear of Muslim Immigrants
The Alabama senator and attorney general-nominee has a record of public statements portraying Muslim immigrants in menacing terms.
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J. David Ake / AP A Dramatic Showdown at the Department of Justice
Donald Trump dismissed the acting attorney general for insubordination, after she refused to defend his immigration order in court.
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Andrew Nelles / Reuters Chicago's Police Aren't 'Overly Politically Correct'
President Trump’s assumption that law-enforcement officers in Chicago are too restrained gets the city’s challenges precisely backward.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Trump Bring Back Torture?
It will take more than the executive branch to revive the practice.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Professionalism, Propaganda, and the Press
The Trump administration seems wedded to a political strategy of lying to the public, challenging the media to adjust.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Unqualified Praise for a 1924 Immigration Law
Trump’s pick for attorney general made the remarks during an interview with Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon, now an adviser to the president-elect.
