Jill Abramson | James Comey Has Issued a Plea for Decency. When Will Republicans Listen?




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Jill Abramson | James Comey Has Issued a Plea for Decency. When Will Republicans Listen? 
Former FBI director James Comey. (photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)
Jill Abramson, Guardian UK
Abramson writes: "In the interview, Comey declared Trump to be 'morally unfit to be president', and compared him to a mafia don, someone without a scintilla of decency. He provided evidence to support these harsh words."
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Gina Haspel speaks at the William J. Donovan Award Dinner, Oct. 2017. (photo: OSS Society/NBC)
Gina Haspel speaks at the William J. Donovan Award Dinner, Oct. 2017. (photo: OSS Society/NBC)

Spencer Ackerman | Top CIA Lawyer in 2014: Haspel Ran 'The Interrogation Program'
Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast
Ackerman writes: "Long before Donald Trump ever nominated Gina Haspel to run the CIA, a memoir from a former CIA top attorney contained a line with the power to do serious damage to her chances."
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Michael Cohen, longtime personal lawyer and confidante for President Donald Trump, leaving the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)
Michael Cohen, longtime personal lawyer and confidante for President Donald Trump, leaving the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)

Trump Team Worries Michael Cohen Could Turn Against the President
Joe Palazzolo, Michael Rothfeld and Michael Siconolfi, The Wall Street Journal
Excerpt: "One of President Donald Trump's longtime legal advisers said he warned the president in a phone call Friday that Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump's personal lawyer and close friend, would turn against the president and cooperate with federal prosecutors if faced with criminal charges."
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Attorney General Josh Hawley and Gov. Eric Greitens. (photo: AP)
Attorney General Josh Hawley and Gov. Eric Greitens. (photo: AP)

Missouri Gov Eric Greitens Asks for Restraining Order Against Attorney General
Ason Hancock and Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
Excerpt: "Gov. Eric Greitens' attorneys have asked a Cole County judge to issue a restraining order blocking Attorney General Josh Hawley from investigating the governor."
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. (photo: Jason Andrew/Getty)
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. (photo: Jason Andrew/Getty)





Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "A group of 131 representatives and 39 senators, all of them Democrats, signed a resolution on Wednesday calling on embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign."
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Nicholas Kamm/Getty)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Nicholas Kamm/Getty)

Trump Administration Wants to Shut Door on Abused Women
Julia Preston, Politico
Preston writes: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions, from his position as the top official in charge of the immigration courts, is leading a broad review to question whether domestic or sexual violence should ever be recognized as persecution that would justify protection in the United States."
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Warming ocean water contributes to sea level rise and can strengthen hurricanes. Hurricane Irma's storm surge last year was the latest to flood Jacksonville, Florida. (photo: Sean Rayford/Getty)
Warming ocean water contributes to sea level rise and can strengthen hurricanes. Hurricane Irma's storm surge last year was the latest to flood Jacksonville, Florida. (photo: Sean Rayford/Getty)

Florida Kids Sue Gov. Scott Over Climate Change: You Have 'Moral Obligation' to Protect Us
Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News
Gustin writes: "Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate-policy-averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of a warming climate."
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