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Read Trump's "settlement" with the Trump admin to create a nearly $2 billion slush fund that Trump ultimately controls

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Frank Bisignano, the chief executive officer of the I.R.S., signed Monday's “settlement agreement.”
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John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it.
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The many problems with and caused by Monday's Supreme Court voting-case order
The rush to act in the wake of last week's Voting Rights Act decision has meant stretching, if not ignoring, the ordinary rules. And, for paid…
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Rhode Island's Child Advocate sues to block DOJ subpoena on Rhode Island Hospital
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The Fifth Circuit would like to run the United States
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Mifepristone is back at the Supreme Court in case over mailing the medication abortion drug
After a Fifth Circuit ruling Friday that would end mailing of the mifepristone, a drugmaker asked the justices to act immediately to keep the FDA policy…
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