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28 March 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News THIS WILL TAKE A MIRACLE - We have perfected the practice of pulling rabbits from hats to an art form. Fourth quarter comebacks are routine on these fundraising drives. This month, however, we’re going to need a full-blown miracle. Who can help here? Please and thank you. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Jill Abramson | Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere. And None to Represent Trump  Jill Abramson, Guardian UK Abramson writes: "The US president seems in utter denial that there is any problem with his legal representation. But there is." READ MORE Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, is facing additional charges in the special counsel investigation. (photo: Shawn Thew/EPA) Mueller Team Reveals Manafort Business Associate Was Connected to Russian Intelligence Officer Max Greenwood, The Hill Greenwood writes: "Th...

News Updates from CLG 21 March 2018 http://www.legitgov.org/ All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news   Previous edition:  Mueller witness is convicted pedophile; former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired   Americans seek $1 bil. in damages over Fukushima nuclear disaster  | 20 March 2018 | Some 200 U.S. residents filed a suit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and a U.S. firm seeking at least 1 billion to cover medical expenses related to radiation exposure suffered during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the utility said Monday. The lawsuit was filed last Wednesday with U.S. federal courts in the Southern District of California and the District of Columbia by participants in the U.S. forces' Operation Tomodachi relief effort carried out in the wake of the March 11, 2011, [events] that crippled TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Many of the plaintiffs are suing TEPCO and the U.S. comp...

Trump’s increasingly confrontational approach to Mueller enabled by congressional GOP timidity Trump's lawyer calls for end to special counsel probe BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Republican congressional leaders have no appetite for a showdown with Donald Trump over legislation to protect Robert Mueller,  even as the president has begun attacking the special counsel by name and hired a new lawyer who publicly alleges a vast FBI conspiracy to bring him down. While GOP leaders say Mueller should be allowed to do his work, their relative acquiescence both enables and emboldens Trump’s defiance.  The president will likely continue to test the limits and push the boundaries to see what he can get away with. That’s how he’s always operated. The lack of urgency to do anything to protect Mueller reflects a recognition on Capitol Hill that Republican fortunes are now inextricably linked to the president in 2018, for bet...