by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 5.
- The chaotic Trump-Kim summit aftermath, explained
- Trump administration is looking for someone to blame for failing to sign a deal with North Korea (“If you thought the Hanoi summit with North Korea was unfortunate, check out the aftermath.”)
- Trump scraps trade privilege for India; Delhi plays down impact
- America the Cowardly Bully (“What the world has learned from Trump’s trade war.”)
- Trump Attacks India on Trade as U.S. Seeks Its Help on China (Brilliant. Not.)
- Trump’s Presidency Is Rolling Towards a Confrontation With Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution (“A new probe from House Democrats has ratcheted up the stakes.”)
- Dems reach deep into Trump orbit
- With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry
- Democratic investigations now target Trump’s entire world
- How Mitch McConnell Lost Control (“Republican senators will help vote down Trump’s national emergency. This is McConnell’s worst nightmare.”)
- McConnell: Senate will pass resolution blocking Trump’s border emergency (“The Senate majority leader had urged the president not to declare a national emergency after Congress rejected his demands to fund the wall.”)
- Trump’s unhinged CPAC speech should concern us all (“The president of the United States gave a rambling and incoherent two-hour speech in which he raved like a lunatic and told crazy, self-serving lies from start to finish. If that no longer qualifies as alarming, we’re in serious trouble.” Can you just imagine the right-wing’s reaction if Obama or Clinton had given an unhinged, deranged speech like that?)
- Trump boldly asserts that he has learned nothing these past two years (“The president proved once again that he lacks dignity.”)
- Lawyer for Cohen Approached Trump Attorneys About Pardon (“Possibility of presidential pardon was broached and dismissed after April FBI raid on Cohen’s premises”)
- London Man Is Second Adult In The World To Be Considered Cleared Of HIV (“The ‘London patient’ case gives doctors hope that they might soon find a cure for AIDS.”)
- Major Study: Kids Who Get MMR Vaccine Are Less Likely to Develop Autism
- House Dems will take floor action to confront Omar’s latest Israel comments (“The freshman Democrat is clashing with senior lawmakers who view her remarks as anti-Semitic.”)
- Ilhan Omar is using President Trump’s playbook (“The Democratic representative should know why it’s wrong to question one’s loyalty to the U.S.”)
- Fox Got Trump Elected and Now It’s Ruining His Presidency (“Theory: It may just be that knowing he has what is in essence a state propaganda network encourages him to govern from the hard right and do irresponsible things.”)
- Fox & Friends complains about congressional oversight of Trump: “The idea is to slowly wear down the public”
- Whitaker out at Justice Department (“Whitaker’s departure comes less than three weeks after William Barr was confirmed as Trump’s next attorney general. Barr was widely expected to bring new blood to top leadership roles in the department, raising questions about Whitaker’s tenure.”)
- Brett Kavanaugh Shows How Eager He Is to Tear Down the Wall Between Church and State (“Its decision in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer blew a chunk out of the wall between church and state. And on Monday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh announced his intention to demolish the remainder of that wall by invalidating laws that bar government subsidization of religion.”)
- Trump’s Alleged Meddling with CNN Could Be an Impeachable Offense
- Coastal states mount bipartisan resistance as Trump forges ahead with offshore drilling plans (“Republican-led Southern coastal states are among a large coalition opposing the president’s plans.”)
- How right-wing media embrace social media-generated rage bait to drive website traffic (The Kathy Tran video was a classic case of this.)
- Luke Perry Made It Cool to Be Kind
- John Hickenlooper Believes He Can Be the Bridge(“The former governor of Colorado is the latest Democrat to join the 2020 race. Instead of dragging the party to the left, he is marketing himself as someone who can work with both sides”)
- Some Democrats Need to Run for Senate—Not President. Luckily, They May Be Able to Do Both. (“Some presidential aspirants may crash out of the primary early enough they can pivot to unseating Republican senators.”)
- The Oppression of the Supermajority (“The defining political fact of our time is not polarization. It’s the thwarting of a largely unified public.”)
- Top Democratic donors wait for Terry McAuliffe to decide on 2020 bid (Ee gads, seriously?)
- Hillary Clinton: ‘I’m Not Running’ in 2020
- Eric Holder: I won’t run, but I will fight to elect the right Democratic president (“With the depth and diversity of our party’s candidates for 2020, we will have a host of good options.”)
- Video: AG Mark Herring Sits Down with Kojo Nnamdi For “First Interview After Admitting to Wearing Blackface in College”(“What’s happened in Virginia has been painful, it is serious, and it deserves a lot of focused attention…for me and my team and the Attorney General’s office”)
- It’s not the blackface, it’s the flip-flop: Herring explains call for Northam’s resignation (That’s not really what he said.)
- Despite His Own Blackface Scandal, Virginia AG Says Governor Has Lost Public Trust
- Democrat Gene Rossi Blasts Justin Fairfax for “Playing The Race Card….Disgusting and Despicable… (Rossi: “I came close to dying in 2013 and I don’t have many miles to go before I sleep, and I’m not going to have on my tombstone, ‘he kept silent when he should have said something so I’m calling him out'”)
- Terry McAuliffe Is Claiming Commonwealth’s Attorneys Signed an Amici Curiae Brief Opposing Restoration of Voting Rights to Ex Felons. Let’s Take a Closer Look.
- Citizen oversight of Virginia’s environmental regulations increasingly looks like a farce (“Even after more than two years of being steadily bludgeoned into subservience by the Department of Environmental Quality and the Attorney General’s office over the regulations of a pair of contentious natural gas pipeline projects, Friday’s meeting of the Virginia State Water Control Board was a new low point.” Agreed – it was a complete disgrace. Corrupt too.)
- Del. Sam Rasoul: Few Talk About the Real Reason For Trump
- 4th Circuit decision prompts Wall Street concern over pipeline
- Nationwide coal ash pollution report includes six Virginia sites
- State Corporation Commission vacancy finally filled as Patricia West takes oath (“West, 57, is a former circuit court judge and official at Regent University who also worked under Gov. George Allen and attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, both Republicans.” ‘Nuff said.)
- Virginia Gov. Northam signing bills as he tries to get beyond blackface scandal
- Northam speaks at drone conference at Albemarle vineyard
- Protect our underwater ecosystems
- EDITORIAL: This year’s legislative misses (“Our hopes that lawmakers would find a way to resuscitate budget amendments to boost funding for Virginia State Parks were dashed once budget work was completed”)
- It’s been 16 months since Park Police killed a man. Why is the FBI still silent? (“Why did police kill Bijan Ghaisar?”)
- Editorial: What western Virginia is doing to counter national trends
- Editorial: Foster care changes will serve Virginia kids
- D.C.-area forecast: Very cold for the next few days before some moderation this weekend
