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I know I know we've sort of beaten the whole " Trump wants to jail flag burners " thing to death today, but there's just so much juice left in that tasty, tasty fruit. Earlier this morning, Ed Morrissey set forth the basics of why this should essentially be a constitutional non-starter.
President-elect Donald Trump moved to fill out his Cabinet Tuesday, tapping Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Aides signaled that at least one other Cabinet nomination was imminent.
That's what President-elect Donald Trump has done by claiming to have won the popular vote after discounting for "the millions of people who voted illegally." Trump offered no evidence of voter fraud, and by so baldly staking a demonstrably false claim he risks damaging the integrity of the very representative democracy that just elected him president.
President-elect Donald Trump moved to fill out his Cabinet Tuesday, tapping Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Aides signaled that at least one other Cabinet nomination was imminent.
Donald Trump won the presidency earlier this month even as he lost the popular vote to D... . In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, people vote at a polling place set up at the Kenter Canyon Elementary School in Los Angeles.
Trump victory tour: 'Thank you' or 'ego' trip? President-elect Donald Trump is launching his nationwide victory tour in Cincinnati on Thursday night. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://cin.ci/2gfFCLa Donald Trump is the first president-elect ever known to go on a nationwide victory tour, which kicks off this week in a key swing state that helped the real estate mogul pull off his surprise victory.
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president on the November 8 ballot, filed a request for a recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results shortly before the state's Friday deadline. But after Wisconsin's Elections Commission denied Stein's request that ballots be counted by hand, Stein's campaign filed a lawsuit demanding all ballots be manually counted, rather than by optical scanners.
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein asked a judge Monday to force a hand recount of nearly 3 million ballots cast in Wisconsin after the state Elections Commission rejected her call to do that. The commission voted unanimously to move ahead with a recall timeline that would start the process on Thursday.
In what might be shaping up as an echo of the 1960s, campuses in Southern California and around the country are responding to a pending Trump presidency with all manner of mourning and protest. Cry-ins, class walkouts, marches all have become routine parts of campus life in recent weeks, a response to the election of a candidate who denied climate change, repeatedly made statements viewed as misogynistic, and called for building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
For the second time in recent experience, and the fifth time in American history, a presidential candidate has been elected despite having failed to win a plurality of the nationwide vote. Also for the second time in recent experience, partisans of the candidate who won the popular vote but not the presidency - Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 - have responded by urging an end to the Electoral College system, which awards votes to presidential aspirants by state totals , rather than national ones.
Editor's note: The following column originally appeared on NewsBusters.org , a project of the Media Research Center in Washington. When Jill Stein was the Green Party's candidate for U.S. president, the broadcast networks only gave her 36 seconds of coverage.
In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Warren says a bill providing extra money for medical research is "extortion" and a giveaway to big biomedical companies.
The drama, disputes and falsehoods that permeated Donald Trump's presidential campaign are now roiling his transition to the White House, forcing aides to defend his baseless assertions of illegal voting and sending internal fights spilling into public. On Monday, a recount effort, led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein and joined by Hillary Clinton's campaign also marched on in three states, based partly on the Stein campaign's unsubstantiated assertion that cyberhacking could have interfered with electronic voting machines.
President-elect Donald Trump amplified conspiracy theories from the far right about widespread illegal voting, and his efforts to re-litigate the election align somewhat with a movement led by the far left. President-elect Donald Trump amplified conspiracy theories from the far right about widespread illegal voting, and his efforts to re-litigate the election align somewhat with a movement led by the far left.
Wisconsin election officials are preparing to begin a recount of the state's presidential vote this week. Here are answers to the most significant questions about the pending recount: Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 22,170 votes, or about 1 percent of the vote, based on unofficial results.
The Defense Department is conducting a leaks investigation related to the sex scandal that led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus , The Associated Press confirmed Monday, the same day Petraeus was meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York. Petraeus, who could be in line for a Cabinet nomination, arrived at Trump Tower in early afternoon.
A Beltway lobbying firm with close connections to Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that it failed to disclose work it did for the Indian government in 2014 and 2015. The Podesta Group disclosed the lobbying activities in an amended filing submitted to the Justice Department earlier this month, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday.
When my colleague Lawrence Lessig argued at Medium that members of the Electoral College should break faith and vote for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump, I chalked it up to the brilliantly contrarian Larry being brilliant and contrarian -- even if wrong. But when, over the holiday weekend, the Washington Post published his op-ed making the same argument, it made me think serious people might take his argument seriously -- which would be dangerous for democracy and bad for the republic.
In a year where immigration and terrorism were at the forefront of political discussions, the "hatred of foreigners" has been named the word of the year. It is defined two ways: 1) "fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures or strangers" and 2) "fear or dislike of the customs, dress, etc.