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Tara Reade, the woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, said it was “unspeakably hard” to watch Biden get sworn into office.
The irony for Reade is that she believes in many of the policies Biden will be pushing as president. But Biden’s betrayal of her personally and his unwanted and unwelcome sexual advances made it difficult to watch the Democrat get sworn in.
“I will not be silenced. Instead of talking about saving the country’s soul, he should be held accountable for his actions,” Reade
said. “The hard part is, I believe in many policies that will move forward as I am a progressive independent, but it is unspeakably hard to watch the man who assaulted me go to the most powerful position in the land.”
Court scraps Trump administration power plant rules
Steven Mufson, The Washington Post
Jan. 19, 2021
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WASHINGTON - A federal appellate court on Thursday scrapped a Trump administration rule that eased limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas-fired power plants, and it effectively revived the Obama administration s tougher Clean Power Plan.
In sweeping away the Trump administration s regulation, dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals raised hopes among environmental groups that the Biden administration may be able to replace some Trump administration rules more easily than it anticipated. Today s decision is the perfect Inauguration Day present for America, said Ben Levitan, a senior attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund. It confirms that the Trump administration s dubious attempt to get rid of common-sense limits on climate pollution from power plants was illegal.
The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change. Is it Ready to Decide Which Courts Have Jurisdiction?
Cities, counties and states suing the fossil fuel industry want state courts to award damages. But industry says it’s a federal, if not a global, concern.
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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends the funeral of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the U.S Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford - Pool/Getty Images
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wasted no time cutting to the chase during a hearing Tuesday in a climate change case in which the City of Baltimore is seeking potentially billions in damages from the fossil fuel industry related to climate-induced extreme weather and sea level rise.
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Media outlets and news personalities have made a number of major mistakes throughout the time that President Donald Trump has served in the White House.
Publications such as the New York Times, CNN, and Politico inaccurately portrayed conversations, the state of the president’s finances, his dealings with Russia (or lack thereof), and a variety of other facts about the president throughout the past four years.
Most notably, many media figures pushed the narrative that Trump and members of his campaign colluded with Russians to influence the 2016 election, though special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no evidence to establish that is true.
Accountability Is the Cure for an Ailing Democracy
The United States should follow the examples of other nations that were brave enough to make their despotic leaders face justice.
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In the early 2000s, Peruvians faced a difficult choice.
Their outgoing president, Alberto Fujimori, had been democratically elected as a
populist only to preside over a regime of corruption, repression, and personal
megalomania. Early in his first term, he orchestrated an
autogolpe, or
self-coup, in which he shut down congress and took over the judiciary with the
assistance of the military and Peruvian elites.
Though Fujimori nominally restored democratic institutions