Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you...
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you...
February 18, 2018 No wonder the Russians celebrated when Trump won the election, they worked hard to make that happen, engaging many operatives, and spending millions of dollars to get...
February 4, 2018 Trump's war on the FBI and DOJ are part of his battle to thwart the Mueller investigation. That is now clear to anyone who has read the...
February 3, 2018 House Republicans, Sean Hannity and Trump have worked in concert to gin up the release of this Nunes memo that the FBI and DOJ have warned them...
December 29, 2017 Ezra Klein notes in his op ed in Vox, commenting on Trump's recent interview at Mar-A-Lago, that this president of ours, is not well. He is right,...
November 17,2017 A president cannot pardon himself. Richard Painter, Norm Eisen and Laurence Tribe clarify this in their article in the Washington Post from July. But here is the next...
October 27, 2017 Trump makes a lot of people nervous and worried. And for good reason. Recent polls show that most people in this country do not think Trump has...