Friday, April 13, 2018
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CBO Report: Trumponomics To Boost Economic Growth Through 2028
The Congressional Budget Office is expecting higher deficits and quicker economic growth in the coming decade. However, a key fiscal measure suggests an improved budget performance by 2028.
One America’s Kristian Rouz explains.
ACLU Celebrates Raid on Trump’s Lawyer: ‘The Rule of Law is Alive’
Earlier this week, the FBI raided attorney Michael Cohen’s office, apartment, and hotel room, seizing materials that included communications from Trump to his lawyer. The government typically cannot have access to those communications. In cases where it is necessary to study such communications, the FBI establishes a supposedly independent “taint team” that sifts through the material and, theoretically, only passes on evidence to prosecutors that does not violate attorney-client privilege.
However, critics allege that there is great potential for abuse, especially in a politically-charged case like this. They point out that such raids on attorneys are very rare, and argue that the president’s Fourth Amendment right to privacy, Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and Sixth Amendment right to counsel have been compromised.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s foremost defense lawyers and a civil libertarian who supported Hillary Clinton for president, condemned the raid.
“If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America jumping up and down,” he told Fox News this week.
However, the ACLU not only condones the raid on Trump’s; it is applauding it.
ACLU legal director David Cole wrote on the organization’s website:
The ACLU is the nation’s premier defender of privacy, and we’ve long maintained that the right of every American to speak freely to his or her attorney is essential to the legal system. These rights are protected by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, and we are second to none in defending them — often for people with whom we fundamentally disagree.
But we also believe in the rule of law as an essential foundation for civil liberties and civil rights. And perhaps the first principle of the rule of law is that...
Student Journalist Says Discipline Policies Weakened School Safety Before Parkland Shooting
Kenneth Preston, a 19-year-old student journalist who attends high school in Broward County, Florida, has done an in-depth investigation of the superintendent and school board.
Preston’s thorough report, released on Tuesday, says that Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie and the school district failed to spend over $100 million of federal money intended for school safety upgrades.
Runcie once worked under former Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the Chicago Public Schools system.
Preston’s report says that the school had been sitting on this money since 2014, and that only about 5 percent of it had been spent.
“The findings of our investigation is [sic] two-fold. First off, a $100 million which superintendent and the school board had access to. Since 2014, roughly 5 percent of that money has been spent,” Preston said in an in-depth interview with Sirius XM host David Webb.
Preston said that Runcie gave him a “long-winded runaround” about what happened to the money.
In addition, Preston has called into question the school district’s use of the PROMISE program.
This program was aligned with a 2014 Obama-era federal initiative, which aimed at ending the “school to prison pipeline” as well as racial disparities in discipline by focusing on counseling and “restorative justice” instead of using law enforcement to correct on-campus misbehavior.
Preston spoke at a Broward County School Board meeting on Tuesday, but said during his remarks that just before the meeting started, his allotted time to speak was cut to three minutes.
The seven panelists Preston had lined up were removed from the schedule.
On the day before the hearing, Preston said he was forced to attend a two-hour meeting with...
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