By any reasonable measure, Trump's firing of Jeff Sessions represents a grave threat to democracy and the rule of law. No matter what you think of Sessions, he refused to allow Trump to politicize the Department of Justice, particularly as it related to the Mueller ...read more

In the relentless PR war to convince America that there was no collusion, no Russian hacks and no need to investigate the president for crimes against his own country, Donald Trump tweeted this in support of the widely ridiculed Devin Nunes today:  Nunes will go down in history ...read more

Donald Trump always makes things worse for himself. It's become a daily feature of the Trump era to watch in stunned amazement how Trump routinely makes horrible decisions, digging his shithole deeper and more inescapable with every move. Hell, Trump's bad decisions make Walter ...read more

Everyone seems to agree that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be fired by President Trump at some point, perhaps this week. We're also in general agreement about how such a decision would spark a wide-reaching constitutional crisis that could include Trump going Full Erdogan ...read more