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(Separate multiple addresses with a comma) Your Email Address Your Message (optional) Morgan Lewis Expands Finance Team with Additon of Partner, Mark Kirsons February 08, 2021, 06:24 AM Morgan Lewis is adding regional strength to its 110+ strong global finance team with the addition of partner Mark Kirsons, who joins from Sidley, where he also previously served as a co-leader of its Global Finance group, and will be resident in Chicago. Mark is recognized for his lender-side p...

To understand America’s tumultuous present, we need to be honest about its history Author: Steve Haycox Published January 16 National Guard troops stand behind a fencing outside the U.S. Capitol on Capital Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives convened for a session to take up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, nearly a week after an insurrectionist mob of pro-Trump supporters breached the security of the nations capitol w...

Jan 14, 2021 Donald Trump is now the only president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. That makes him responsible for half of the presidential impeachments in U.S. history. Just 10 Republicans joined all the House Democrats voting for impeachment on Wednesday, but that’s the largest number of representatives ever to vote to impeach their own party’s president. In fact, it was worse than that for Trump. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he wanted to censure the...

Politics in America is not that bad after all 30 Dec 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. File/Reuters Jonathan Bernstein, Tribune News Service It was a dreadful year, obviously, and that applies to US politics, too. Nevertheless, believe it or not, some stuff was worth celebrating. Here are five good developments: Republicans for democracy: In a year when the Republican Party overall...

More help, at long last, is on the way. After months of partisan gridlock and inaction — even as hundreds of thousands of Americans were dying due to Covid-19 and millions more were falling into poverty — congressional leaders have finally agreed on another $900 billion coronavirus relief package. On Monday afternoon, mere hours ahead of planned votes, lawmakers released the text of the legislation, 5,593 pages combining pandemic relief and $1.4 trillion in funding for government operatio...

Commentary: Americans sure do agree on a lot Going by issue polling, at least, this doesn’t look like a particularly divided nation. By Justin FoxBloomberg Opinion Share Last week the attorneys general of 18 states and 126 members of the U.S. House of Representatives – all Republicans – signed on to a lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising millions of voters and overturning the result of a not-all-that-close presidential election. Though the Supreme Court quickly rejected the attempt, it was...

Already the biggest political scandal in decades and we are just more than a year into trumps presidency and nine months into muellers appropriation. they reference comments by jonathan bernstein who said, quote, its clearly the worst presidential scandal since at least iran-contra, but probably since watergate. jonathan bernstein is here with us tonight. hes a long-time political science professor, now a columnist for "bloomberg view." how far is this thus far based on what we know and why? >> ...

If you take watergate, for example, over several months of watergate it was, you know, the president successfully spun the thing as a third-rate burglary, right, and people didnt take it seriously for a long time until indictments started coming out and evidence started coming out of what nixons men had done and what richard nixon himself had done. so its a continuing story. its a story that has legs journalism-wise. if theres urgency, its hard to judge what counts as urgency. >> how about we ag...

Mueller ever finds a smoking gun that trump and his campaign colluded with russia, this is already the biggest political scandal in decades and we are just more than a year into trumps presidency and nine months into muellers appropriation. they reference comments by jonathan bernstein who said, quote, its clearly the worst presidential scandal since at least iran-contra, but probably since watergate. jonathan bernstein is here with us tonight. hes a long-time political science professor, now a ...

Colluded with russia, this is already the biggest political scandal in decades and we are just more than a year into trumps presidency and nine months into muellers probe. they reference comments by jonathan bernstein who said, quote, its clearly the worst presidential scandal since at least iran-contra, but probably since watergate. jonathan bernstein is here with us tonight. hes a long-time political science professor, now a columnist for "bloomberg view." well, jonathan, let me have you put i...