Washington Post – Politics:
Eight states plus the District will hold primaries Tuesday. Several have struggled with demand for absentee ballots and poll worker shortages.
Category: Politics
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Power Up: Trump’s election year war on governors intensifies as protests spread
Washington Post – Politics:
Most governors are more popular than the president, who declared the military should be sent in to help them quell demonstrations.
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Trump uses Russia as a shield, or weapon, in fight with European leaders over future of Group of Seven
Washington Post – Politics:
If Trump pushes to have Russian President Vladmir Putin attend, it could be the poison pill that ensures the event won’t take place this year.
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Mitch McConnell got ‘rich’ the old-fashioned way
Washington Post – Politics:
An attack ad misleadingly suggests the Senate Majority Leader became wealthy through backroom deals in government service. Not so.
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Justice Department has a tool to make police forces better. It’s not using it.
Washington Post – Politics:
Consent decrees can change not just policies, but also entrenched cultures that lead to police abuse.
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Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op
Washington Post – Politics:
The scene at St. John’s Episcopal Church and authorities’ attacks on protesters were the product of a president who favors brute strength and fears looking weak.
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In Pa., officials prepare for coronavirus, civil unrest to disrupt Tuesday primary
Washington Post – Politics:
Eight states plus the District of Columbia will hold primaries Tuesday. Several have struggled with demand for absentee ballots and poll worker shortages.
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Perhaps Trump’s most ludicrous claim: that he is an ‘ally of all peaceful protesters’
Washington Post – Politics:
He is not, as he has made clear.
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Democrats assail Trump’s threat to deploy military as ‘un-American,’ ‘fascist’
Washington Post – Politics:
Trump’s remarks Monday night triggered a firestorm of criticism from Democrats, several of whom denounced his threat to deploy the military domestically as the behavior of a would-be authoritarian leader.