By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of six state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the Trump Environmental Protection Agency for continuing to allow the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on crops that end up contaminating common foods and endangering the neurological development of…
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Maryland Attorney General Challenges Trump Appointment of Whitaker as Acting Attorney General
By Glynn Wilson – President Trump’s appointment of political loyalist Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general to replace Jeff Sessions of Alabama was illegal and is unconstitutional, and a federal judge in Maryland has been asked to rule on that question in a lawsuit defending a the pre-existing condition provision in the Affordable Care Act,…
Federal Lawsuit Alleges Trump Violates Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â One year ago today, a historic federal lawsuit was filed against a sitting president of the United States alleging that Donald Trump’s wide-ranging business entanglements violate the U.S. Constitution emoluments clauses against accepting gifts and engaging in private financial transactions with foreign governments. The first-of-its-kind case was filed…