Trump Impeachment Trial Awaits, Many Americans Say Government Is Broken
02/08/21 AT 3:56 PM
With former President Donald Trump s second impeachment trial set to begin Tuesday, less than half of the public feels that the American system of government is basically sound, according to a poll released Monday by the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
The polls showed that 55% say the government is unsound and 22% believe significant changes are needed to fix it. Only 44% of those polled said that the government was sound, with the vast majority of those believing some improvements are needed.
Monmouth has asked the question annually since 2017 and this is the first time a majority held a dim view of the system of government. The question itself dates to late 1980, a time when 62% of those surveyed believed in the soundness of the government compared to 37% that did not.
21 LANSING, Mich. – While the spread of Coronavirus has left an indelible mark on nearly every area of modern life, these currents of change also have brought new opportunities to innovate, problem-solve, and grow. Legal professionals from the Michigan National Guard (MING) and the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) have together done just that by implementing a new program that deepens military adherence to the rule of law and facilitates military support to the prosecution of terrorists.
This engagement is part of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)’s Office of Legal Counsel initiative known as Command Advice, Investigations, and Coordination (CAIC, pronounced “cake”). This program was developed in Spring 2020 and is presently being piloted in nine West African countries, including Liberia. Michigan and Liberia have been partners under the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program (SPP) for more than a decade, which puts them in an ideal situation to ex
The Department of Justice (DOJ) put up hurdles to executive orders prepared by President Donald Trump while fast-tracking the ones prepared by President-elect Joe Biden during the transition period leading up to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20,.
‘Gymnastics Enthusiast’ in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel Came Up with a Way to Block Biden from Reading ‘Restricted’ Trump Admin Archives Jerry Lambe
In a last-minute attempt to assuage outgoing President
Donald Trump’s privacy concerns, the Justice Department last month issued a legal opinion stating that upon taking office, President
Joe Biden cannot access electronic records from the previous administration, even if those records are still on the president’s hardware after his inauguration.
The six-page memo penned by the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Devin DeBacker, an apparent “gymnastics enthusiast” states that under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) the U.S. Archivist, not the incoming president, assumes responsibility for the “custody, control, and preservation of” all records of the previous administration. DeBacker previously worked under Trump’s former White House Counsel