All posts tagged "Dictatorship"

President Donald Trump ignoring a judge's block on his media ban signals a significant step towards dictatorship amid a larger attack on U.S. law.

On Thursday, legal expert Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor emeritus at Harvard, warned of Trump's larger attack on the law amid his insistence on banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Tribe spoke on CNN after the network's correspondents were again turned away from the White House despite a judge issuing a temporary restraining order against the media ban.

"The president is playing cat and mouse with the American people," Tribe said. "It really is an outrage. He says that he's going to comply with judicial orders, but he defied them this morning."...

At former President Donald Trump's Fox News town hall in Iowa with Sean Hannity airing on Tuesday evening, he proclaimed that Democrats are funding his Republican challengers.

The moment came when Hannity, who recently moderated a debate between Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA), asked Trump about President Joe Biden's comments this week that "If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running."

"He said that at a campaign event today," said Hannity. "How do you react to that?"...

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared "Iraq Day" on Saturday to mark the end of a pact allowing US forces to stay in the country, two weeks after they left and with Iraq mired in a political row.

Ralph Nader appeared Thursday on Fox News to discuss a democratic primary he was organizing against President Barack Obama to "hold his feet to the fire."