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About 20% of all lawyers employed by the federal government left in the 14 months following Trump regaining office. If you are an attorney who still retains a moral compass or believes in the foundational principles on which our justice system and nation were based, it is hard to imagine how you can justify continuing to work for the federal government.
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The Department of Justice, which is overseen by Trump, is criminally investigating a woman a jury essentially found Trump raped, not because she supposedly lied about the rape, but because she may have initially lied about whether somebody helped pay a portion of her legal bills, which her attorneys corrected on the legal record before the trial began.
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In nominating Paxton, Republicans have shown once more that they have become morally unmoored, if they ever seriously cared about morality and right and wrong at all. As long as a Republican politician slavishly supports Donald Trump and hates the right people loudly and nastily enough, he can be thoroughly corrupt and disregard the law without losing the support of Republican voters.
And so it is that on the country's 250th anniversary, the president is not putting on a celebration of the principles on which our nation was founded or its great accomplishments, but instead is putting on the modern equivalent of Roman gladiatorial games on the lawn of the White House. And to add insult to injury, unlike the Romans, the American people aren't getting bread.
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Jeff Bezos's positive shift toward Trump is emblematic of how many top tech executives have similarly shifted. As soon as it became more economically advantageous to support and work with Trump than to resist him and voice platitudes about American democracy, they all flocked to him.
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As part of President Donald Trump's corrupt settlement with the government he oversees to create a slush fund that would permit payouts to cronies and supporters using $1.776 billion of tax payer money, Trump, his family, and his business received additional, unprecedented legal immunity.
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A significant portion of Trump's supporters seem to be religious-like believers who will reflexively and fervently defend anything he does, but if a supporter were to start having doubts, there are significant intrinsic and extrinsic forces they would need to confront.
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While I too am sympathetic toward an apologetic, elderly, first-time offender, I fear that by giving Peters a break despite having undermined our elections, we may be further motivating others to commit similar or worse actions.
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The President of the United States has essentially agreed to settle a lawsuit with himself for which he will decide which allies, supporters, and entities associated with him will receive $1.7 billion of tax payer money ostensibly for what he perceives as unjust treatment by his political opponent. This should be shocking, but it is not.
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Perhaps the LA Mayor and City Council have done a poor job handling some of the issues highlighted by Pratt, but is the answer to hand power to a reality TV star with no government experience and a bad personal history of handling money?
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