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- Rosenstein's departure ends a nearly two-year run defined by his appointment of a special counsel to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
- Rep. Elijah Cummings says he has āvery serious questionsā about whether U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was truthful in explaining how the Trump administration developed a census question about citizenship status. Ross says he "testified truthfully to the best of my ability."
- A federal judge has dismissed Maryland's attempt to protect the Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare," from any Trump administration efforts to dismantle it. The office of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh had sought a declaration that the national health care act is constitutional.
- William Barr emerges as the unlikeliest of Trump choices - someone committed to the rule of law and a supporter of the Mueller inquiry.
- During this weekās hearings to confirm William Barr for the U.S. attorney general position, the Senate must bring Mr. Barrās positions on important civil rights issues into sharper focus.
- Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday that the departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would threaten Robert Mueller's Russia investigation at a time when the integrity of the Justice Department "is under assault" by President Donald Trump.
- Supporters of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election fear that acting attorney general
- Witcover: Democrats' intended disposition to turn the other cheek, rather than use the party's newly acquired subpoena powers to get anti-Trump incriminating information, attempts to seek the high moral ground.
- Less than a week after outgoing Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo dramatically scaling-back the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use consent decrees to enforce police reforms, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will call for a re-commitment to such efforts.
- If President Trump is as innocent as he claims, he ought to leave Mueller probe in the hands of Rod Rosenstein.
- President Trump's long-expected firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions may be a prelude to an outrageous, blatant political crime that could make the Watergate scandal of the 1970s pale in comparison.
- More than 100 people protested outside Congressman Andy Harris's Bel Air office Thursday in support of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into suspected Russian meddling on behalf of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign after AG Jeff Sessions was forced to resigned.
- Rod Rosenstein doesn't deserve to be fired, but here's the real reason why President Trump may keep him - the high political cost of a 'Thursday night massacre.'
- With job status in limbo, Rod Rosenstein to meet with Trump
- Rep. Elijah Cummings: President Trump, his administration and Republicans in Congress are trying to take America back to a time when insurance companies were allowed to discriminate against people just for getting sick, being a womanĀ or getting older.Ā
- It was hardly the most stunning or worrisome revelation from Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear: Trump in the White House." It did, however, finally stir some
- In Donald Trump's view, there's no such thing as right or wrong, only what serves his best interest.
- How on earth did Jeff Sessions ā Jeff Sessions! ā find himself abandoned by the right and embraced by the left?
- Congress must get involved if U.S. is to finally reunite immigrant children with their families.
- For all the times I criticize cable news for its sins, it is an absolute pleasure to watch MSNBC report, critique and challenge the Trump administrationās āzero-toleranceā policy of separating parents and children from families that had come seeking asylum at the Texas border.
- If there's one thing candidate Donald Trump promised about Obamacare's future, it's that preexisting medical conditions would be covered. Well, now maybe not so much.
- The attorney general is Methodist, and the United Methodist Church opposes his draconian policies toward people seeking a better life in the U.S.
- Many of us are horrified to read reports that our government is separating children, including infants as young as one year old, from their parents at the border with Mexico. We may also feel helpless, but we're not. Here are actions each of us can take depending upon our circumstance
- A former employee of the Senate intelligence committee, one of the congressional panels investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, has
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will reconsider Baltimore's exclusion from grants to combat violent crime.
- Jules Witcover: Donald Trump became completely unglued before TV cameras Monday as he railed against federal investigators.
- President Donald Trump is ramping up his attacks on Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. Getting rid of him would be a huge mistake.
- To Donald Trump, Robert Mueller is just another opponent to be trashed and discarded, says Jules Witcover.
- Senate Republicans said Monday that they will consider Robert K. Hur to be the U.S. Attorney for Maryland after initially delaying his confirmation over questions about the Department of Justiceās probe of the 2016 presidential election.
- President Trump's Twitter rages over McCabe, Comey and Mueller sure don't make him look innocent - or decent.
- Members of the stateās congressional delegation Friday called on the Senate to confirm President Donald Trumpās nominee to be Marylandās U.S. Attorney after revelations he is being delayed over questions about the Russia probe.
- Senate Republicans are delaying the confirmation of President Donald Trumpās nominee to be the U.S. Attorney in Maryland until they receive information from the Department of Justice related to the special counselās Russia probe, The Baltimore Sun has learned.
- Spring is just around the corner with its violent weather swings. Last weekās bomb cyclone clobbered more than a quarter of the nationās population with violent storms and unusually heavy winds. But that norāeaster could never match the turbulent tempests coming out of the White House.
- The dueling Nunes/Schiff memos are a sideshow to what's really going on in Robert Mueller's investigation. By now it's clear that the best case scenario for President Donald Trump is still plenty damning.
- It is President Trump's character that leads me to think he didn't collude with Russia, at least not in a way the impeachment-hungry mob hopes he did. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have something to hide.
- In the wake of this latest tragedy, some lawmakers have called for more gun control while others have talked about mental illness. I donāt need to tell you which side called for which solution.
- The federal budget agreement approved early Friday will kick off an intricate debate over several Maryland funding priorities that have been unresolved since President Donald J. Trump took office.
- Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved the continued surveillance of a Trump associate last year, according to a report in the New York Times on Monday that once again thrust the former U.S. Attorney for Maryland into the spotlight.
- Under Donald Trump, the GOP no longer cares about the federal debt, states' rights or Russian aggression, says Robert Reich.
- Shame on the GOP. The FBI is once again investigating the Clinton Foundation, and congressional Republicans are more concerned with arresting the author of the Trump-Russia dossier than investigating the Kremlinās influence over Donald Trumpās campaign and our national election.
- Rescission of Obama's DACA order exposed Trump's muddled, racist thinking on immigration
- Top issues that face the Maryland General Assembly during the coming 2018 session.
- The Trump Administration announced Thursday it would rescind an Obama-era policy not to prosecute minor marijuana crimes, raising questions about whether Maryland's fledgling medical cannabis industry would be affected.
- Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein faced sharp questioning Wednesday from congressional Republicans following revelations that two officials assigned to the departmentās ongoing Russia probe exchanged text messages critical of President Donald J. Trump during last yearās campaign.
- This was not an election to decide whether Alabama favored a Republican candidate our a Democratic candidate. This was an election that pitted common decency and respect over indecency and outright criminal behavior.
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen will address immigration enforcement and international gangs at a news conference in Baltimore on Tuesday.
- Jonah Goldberg: I'll cut to the chase: I thinkĀ Roy MooreĀ did it. And I can predict what Moore supporters will say: "Of course you would believe that!"
- U.S. Attorney Sessions promises prosecution and politics won't mix but who believes him?
- The sexual behavior of American politicians and celebrities has been a staple of news stories from the beginning of the Republic. But it seems to have approached a peak this year with the case of JudgeĀ Roy Moore, theĀ Alabama Republican nominee for theĀ U.S. Senate, and other such scandals.
- For some, taking a knee during the national anthem is un-American, but getting paid tens of millions of dollars to work with Russian agents against the foreign policy of the United States is āmuch ado about nothing.ā