AuthorCaroline Orr

Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, has agreed to testify in an open session of Congress early next month, marking the first major move by the new Congress to increase accountability for Trump and his associates. The hearing, scheduled for Feb. 7 before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, was announced Thursday afternoon by new committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D...

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are renewing the Russia investigation and plan to issue their first subpoena to Donald Trump Jr., according to committee member Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA). Speier was asked Tuesday night who would be subpoenaed first as the new Democratic-controlled committee reopens the investigation that Republicans prematurely shut down last year. “Donald...

Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have accidentally revealed information about their client that could provide the strongest evidence yet of direct coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Due to an apparent filing error, Manafort’s lawyers let slip that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has accused Manafort of sharing polling data from the 2016...

The Trump administration has broken with decades of precedent and stopped cooperating with the United Nations over potential human rights violations inside the U.S., a startling new report reveals. According to the Guardian, the State Department has “quietly” ceased responding to official complaints from U.N. special rapporteurs, a group of independent watchdogs tasked with monitoring...

As Trump’s government shutdown enters its third week with no end in sight, millions of low-income Americans who rely on housing assistance are now at risk of being kicked out of their homes. On January 4, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sent a letter to 1,500 landlords who participate in federal housing assistance programs, urging them not to evict tenants now that...

Trump loves to talk about the military, but when it comes to supporting U.S. troops, he’s all talk and no action. As a result, morale among troops stationed in Afghanistan has sunk to a new low, with top military officials struggling just to get Trump’s attention. According to The Daily Beast, which detailed a failed effort to convince Trump to pay attention to the mission in...

As the newly elected Democratic majority takes control of the House of Representatives, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are reportedly looking to hire a lawyer with litigation experience in anticipation of potential impeachment hearings. According to Mike Allen of Axios, House Judiciary Republicans recently posted a listing on a Capitol Hill jobs board seeking “an attorney with...

Democrats will officially take over the majority in the House of Representatives on Thursday, but they’re already letting Trump know that the time for accountability has arrived. According to CNN, Democrats are making presidential tax returns a priority and are poised to use several different mechanisms to demand that Trump turn over his own records, which he has gone to great lengths to...

Trump has been at war with our democratic institutions since the day he took office. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has borne the brunt of many of his most vicious attacks, in large part because the department is in charge of overseeing the Russia probe that he so desperately wants to end. As the investigation picked up steam in 2018, Trump’s assault on the rule of law reached alarming new...

Trump has made no secret of his hostility toward science and basic facts, and he’s filled his administration with people all too eager to carry out his anti-science agenda. He chose a 31-year-old politics major with no background in science as his top science adviser in the White House. The Environmental Protection Agency under Trump has been mired in scandal after scandal, covering up damning...