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After the House Ethics Committee decided not to release its report into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sex trafficking allegations, former federal prosecutor Mary McCord explained why the Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute the attorney general nominee doesn't mean he's off the hook. Speaking with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Wednesday, McCord said, "I think one of the things here that people may be confused about is, what does it mean that the department of justice declined to bring charges? Does that mean they concluded he was not guilty of committing any crime. And the answer is no. There are many reasons that the Department of Justice, sometimes at the end of an investigation, decides not to prosecute. And it could be that on any particular element of the crime, they didn't feel they were rock solid on being able to prov

A report on Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz will remain under wraps until at least next month, after the latest meeting by the Republican-controlled House Committee on Ethics. Legal experts, political commentators and journalists are all condemning the decision to suppress the report.On Wednesday afternoon, The Hill reported that the committee — which is evenly divided with both five Republicans and five Democrats — failed to reach a conclusion on whether to release the report to the public. Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), who chairs the committee, would only say there was "not an agreement" between Democrats and Republicans after more than two hours of deliberations. In response to Guest's comment, Rep. Susan Wild (

U.S. Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) says she will “follow the rules” after Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson issued a ban on transgender women using women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol, a direct reaction to McBride becoming the first transgender member of Congress.“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families,” McBride (photo, center), 34, a member of the Delaware state Senate, said in a statement. “Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.”“This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn’t distracted me over the last sever

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on Wednesday that the incoming GOP Senate majority is poised to execute its "rule-busting" plans "to rein in Washington bureaucrats' expensive interpretation of the powers over working Americans," Politico reports. In a statement published to the Senate's website, McConnell noted that Senate Republicans utilized the Congressional Review Act "to scrap a slew of bureaucratic rules after eight years of runaway regulation under the [ex-President Barack] Obama Administration — and the GOP la

Rep. Michael Guest (R-MI), chair of the House Ethics Committee, said there was no agreement on releasing a report about sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general.After a two-hour Ethics Committee meeting on Wednesday, Guest told reporters there "was not an agreement to release the report." The Republican chair would not say if the committee voted on the matter.Guest previously suggested he opposed releasing the report because it had not been completed before Gaetz abruptly resigned from the House.Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) said that he would force the full House to vote o

One cornerstone of President-elect Donald Trump's second term agenda is the mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. And his recent call to use emergency powers to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil is now being publicly slammed by a top Senate Republican.Earlier this week, ABC News reported that Trump is contemplating a federal emergency declaration that would allow for the military to be called up to assist his administration with mass deportations. And his nominations of immigration hard-liners like South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem for Homeland Security Secretary and his former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief

After announcing a slew of nominees to serve in leadership roles under his second administration, Donald Trump plans to dodge the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) vetting process, according to a Wednesday Bloomberg report. Per the report, the president-elect’s “transition team hasn’t signed an agreement with the Justice Department and FBI that would allow the bureau to vet nominees, according to a pe

Historian/author Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scathing critic of President-elect Donald Trump who is known for her expertise on authoritarianism, has often noted that one of the things authoritarians do to seize or maintain control is promoting despair. Trump opponents, Ben-Ghiat has repeatedly warned, must not give into despair — as despair is exactly what authoritarians want to promote. Another expert on authoritarianism, author Timothy Snyder, laid out some other means of control during an

President-elect Donald Trump's children aren't wasting any time launching new money-making opportunities after their father was elected to a second term in the White House.According to the Daily Beast, Lara Trump – the Republican National Committee co-chair who is married to the president-elect's son, Eric — is now launching a new clothing line. Her company, LT Brand by Lara Trump Collection, is labeled "a celebration of strength, resilience and patriotism." She wrote on Instagram that it would help "American workers and factories" and that her products will be "handcrafted in the USA because I believe in bringing jobs back home and making a difference where it matters most."The Wall Street Journal

President-elect Donald Trump has surprised and even alarmed many across the country, and “puzzled” and “baffled” some within his own party, with his Cabinet and other top White House nominations. Critics on the left have denounced his picks for their apparent lack of experience or qualifications for the roles they are expected to take on, noting some hold controversial or even false positions in the fields they may soon direct policy on. Meanwhile, experts in the fields of government, fascism, and democracy, are raising serious concerns about the potential “dange