Day: March 11, 2017

Now-fired US Attorney Bharara boasts of a absolute independencea

A Manhattan federal prosecutor who says “absolute independence” was his touchstone for more than seven years as he battled public corruption announced he was fired Saturday after he refused a day earlier to resign. Preet Bharara, 48, revealed his firing on his personal Twitter account after it became widely known hours earlier that he did not intend to step down in response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ request that leftover appointees of former President Barack Obama quit.

Trump praises arrest of a troubled persona at White House

President Donald Trump on Saturday praised the U.S. Secret Service for doing a “fantastic job” apprehending a “troubled person” who climbed a fence and was approaching a south entrance to the White House while Trump was inside the executive mansion. When approached by a Secret Service officer on the south grounds about 11:38 p.m. Friday and asked whether he had a pass authorizing him to be in the restricted area, Tran replied, “No, I am a friend of the president.

The Grove, a witness to slavery, war and civil rights opens

Calling it a reflection of the “larger American experience,” a home that has been witness to slavery, the Civil War and the civil rights era has been opened to the public in Tallahassee. State officials on Saturday swung open the doors to The Grove, a state-owned mansion that was once the residence to Gov. LeRoy Collins.

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee warns ‘fake news’ clickbait can spread ‘like wildfire’

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, says it is “too easy” for misinformation to spread on the Internet. In a letter posted online Saturday, marking 28 years since Berners-Lee submitted his proposal that would lead to the creation of the world wide web, he outlined three trends that he finds concerning, including the spread of “fake news.”

Now-fired Preet Bharara boasts of ‘absolute independence’

A Manhattan federal prosecutor who says “absolute independence” was his touchstone for over seven years as he battled public corruption announced he was fired Saturday after he refused a day earlier to resign. Preet Bharara, 48, revealed his firing on his personal Twitter account after it became widely known hours earlier that he did not intend to step down in response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ request that leftover appointees of former President Barack Obama quit.

Breitbart takes aim at GOP healthcare bill

The far-right news website that has long backed President Trump has published a series of articles this week highlighting perceived negative aspects of House GOP leaders’ proposal to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Breitbart been far from supportive of the Affordable Care Act, which the GOP is seeking to repeal and replace.

McCord to star in trial involving Pennsylvania treasury fees

Former state Treasurer Rob McCord will be the star witness in the trial of a suburban Philadelphia investment adviser whom he secretly recorded in conversations that federal prosecutors say lay out a bribery scheme to land lucrative state investment contracts, jurors heard Friday. Richard Ireland is charged with 79 money-laundering, wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy charges that stem from federal pay-to-play investigations that also ensnared McCord and a second former state treasurer, Barbara Hafer.

Sessions seeks resignations of 46 United States attorneys appointed during Obama administration

AG Sessions Directs U.S. Attorneys to Pursue ‘Harsh Sentences’ for Gun Crimes AP by AWR Hawkins9 Mar 20170 9 Mar 2017 9 Mar 2017 Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 United States attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the Justice Department said Friday, March 10, 2017. The person said Bharara is remaining in his post after receiving assurances a year ago from Trump and Sessions that they wanted him to stay on.

The Latest: Top House Democrat seeks listing of Trump probes

Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the House Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, wants a summary of probes linked to President Donald Trump in light of the dismissal of dozens of federal prosecutors. Conyers says in a release that Saturday’s firing of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is a particular problem.

NYC to roll out enrollment van in Bronx for free ID program

The city’s mobile Command center will be live between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Sunday outside Yankee Stadium before the NYCFC soccer team’s home opener. Government-issued free ID cards – open to all New Yorkers regardless of immigration status – will be available Sunday at a new enrollment van parked outside Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.

Person arrested on White House grounds after scaling fence

A man from California carrying a backpack scaled a White House fence Friday night and was arrested on the South Lawn of the presidential residence, according to the U.S. Secret Service. The suspect – identified by District of Columbia police as Jonathan Tran, 26 – was being charged and could make an initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court later on Saturday on a charge of unlawful entry.

Matt Johnson: Trump tweets and outrage fatigue

A week ago, I noticed an unusually introspective headline on MSNBC: “Should Dems worry about Trump outrage fatigue?” After writing thousands of words about Trump over the past few months, I confess that the prospect of contributing to a general sense of “outrage fatigue” occasionally bothers me.

Mark Shields: Donald Trump and the Cuban Missile Crisis of Tomorrow

Gen. Charles de Gaulle , a French hero and statesman who did not lack for self-esteem, once stated, “When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.” In October 1962, after U.S. charges that the Soviets had installed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba – just 90 miles from the American mainland – the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the dangerous brink of World War III.

Ivanka Trump working to bridge child care divide

One evening last month, a small group of Republican lawmakers – all of them women – were summoned to the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a private meeting. Awaiting the lawmakers was a figure who has no formal role in the administration but is quietly striving to become a policy force: Ivanka Trump.

US panel seeks evidence Donald Trump’s phones were tapped

The US House Intelligence Committee has asked the Executive Branch for any evidence that would support President Donald Trump’s claim that his phones were tapped at Trump Tower during last year’s election. The US House Intelligence Committee has asked the Executive Branch for any evidence that would support President Donald Trump’s claim that his phones were tapped at Trump Tower during last year’s election.

The Further Adventures Of Paul Ryan, International Man of Seriousity

Tucker Carlson, in a rare act of journalism, decided to press Paul Ryan on his use of health care policy as a fig leaf for massive upper-class tax cuts. He received a Very Serious answer: Carlson: The overview here is that all the wealth [in] basically the last ten years basically has stuck to the top end, that’s one of the reasons we’ve had all this political turmoil, as you know.

Intruder Arrested After Scaling White House Security Fence

U.S. government contractors begin the installation of additional security spikes on the existing White House perimeter fence in Washington, July 1, 2015. An intruder with a backpack who had scaled the outer perimeter fence around the White House was arrested shortly before midnight Friday on the grounds of the president’s official residence in Washington.

It’s Academic: March 11, 2017

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Bharara Refuses Order to Step Down

“Preet Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was told to submit his resignation along with 45 others on Friday, has no plans to do so – forcing a potential showdown with President Trump and the Department of Justice,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Bharara was asked by Mr. Trump to remain in his current post in a meeting in late November, a few weeks after the presidential election.

Indian-American federal prosecutor Bharara sacked

Washington, March 12 – A day after being asked to quit by US President Donald Trump’s administration, Preet Bharara, a high-profile Indian-American federal prosecutor was sacked on Saturday, a media report said. Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was asked by President Trump to remain in his post shortly after the election, was fired after he refused an order to submit his resignation, The New York Times reported.

Mike Pence To Keynote AIPAC Conference

WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence and a bipartisan slate of top members of Congress are scheduled to address AIPAC’s upcoming annual conference. An American Israel Public Affairs Committee official confirmed to JTA that Pence will keynote the conference scheduled for March 26-28 in Washington, D.C. Pence, who enjoyed a long relationship with the pro-Israel lobby as a congressman and later as Indiana governor – but as a local congressman in 2009, told AIPAC that he didn’t know of the three synagogues in his district – spoke last month at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual confab and has taken a lead in condemning recent anti-Semitic incidents.

Pence appeals for complete GOP support for health overhaul

Vice President Mike Pence appealed for total GOP congressional support for a White House-backed health overhaul during a brief visit Saturday to Kentucky, where the Republican governor and junior senator are among the plan’s skeptics. “This is going to be a battle in Washington, D.C. And for us to seize this opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare once and for all, we need every Republican in Congress, and we’re counting on Kentucky,” Pence said at an energy company where business leaders had gathered.

Pence Promises Kentucky Its Obamacare `Nightmare’ About to End

Vice President Mike Pence said the “nightmare” of Obamacare will soon end as he visited Kentucky in hopes of drumming up some good publicity for a contentious health bill that’s united many conservatives and liberals — as well as doctors, seniors and “Obamacare has failed the people of Kentucky it has failed the people of America and Obamacare must go,” Pence told told an invited audience of about 100 mostly small business owners and Republican backers in Louisville.

Dream on, but just make it somewhat snappier this weekend

Graphic to be used as a reminder to turn the clocks forward one hour.; 1c x 1 inches; 46.5 mm x 25 mm; Time marches on, with a bit more skip this weekend, as daylight saving time officially re-emerges at 2 a.m. Time marches on, with a bit more skip this weekend, as daylight saving time officially re-emerges at 2 a.m. Federal judges have dealt Texas another loss over voting rights, finding that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the electoral influence of the state’s booming minority… Federal judges have dealt Texas another loss over voting rights, finding that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the electoral influence of the state’s booming minority population.

GOP Acts Fast on Health Care, Aims to Avoid Ire Dems Faced

It took former President Barack Obama and his Democrats more than a year to pass the Affordable Care Act, a slow and painstaking process that allowed plenty of time for a fierce backlash to ignite, undermining the law from the very start. Republicans are trying to avoid that pitfall as they attempt to fulfill years’ worth of promises to repeal and replace Obama’s law.

Federal judges find Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines – Sat, 11 Mar 2017 PST

Federal judges found more problems in Texas’ voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office. The ruling late Friday by a three-judge panel in San Antonio gave Democrats hope of new, more favorably drawn maps that could turn over more seats in Congress in 2018.

Person arrested on White House grounds after climbing fence

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. Secret Service did a “phenomenal job” apprehending a “troubled person” who got onto the White House grounds after climbing a fence on the east side of the property while Trump was inside the executive mansion. The Secret Service said in a statement that the individual, whom it did not identify, was arrested on the south grounds without further incident after climbing an outer perimeter fence near the Treasury Department and East Executive Avenue at about 11:38 p.m. Friday.