News & Views | 16 Guilty Verdicts All in a Row (and What Comes Next)

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[] [With Sixteen "Guilty" Verdicts All in a Row, Hundreds of Thousands Ready to Hit Streets If Trump Issues Pardons or Moves Against Mueller](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H by Common Dreams staff "Manafort could spend the rest of his life in jail, and Cohen could be headed there too. This raises the threat that Trump will try to pardon his way to obstruction of justice. If he does, we will take to the streets." [] [] News... [] ["President Can't Be Picking Who Might Be His Judge": #StopKavanaugh Meets #ImpeachTrump](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [Demonstrator holds sign that reads "#impeach"](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Calls to halt Senate hearings for right-wing Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh—as well as for Congress to move towards impeachment proceedings—resurged after Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen showed the president "is all but an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal crime." --------------------------------------------------------------- [By Double-Digit Margin, Poll Shows Sanders Mopping the Floor With Trump in Latest 2020 Matchup](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Polling results released Wednesday by Politico/Morning Consult show that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is widely speculated to make another run for the Oval Office in 2020, would beat President Donald Trump by double digits. --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Lanny Davis Begs Americans to Donate to 'Scumbag' Michael Cohen, GoFundMe 'Truth' Campaign Decried as Brazen Con Job](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) 1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H by Jake Johnson, staff writer Just hours after President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen admitted to taking part in a criminal conspiracy and pleaded guilty to eight felony charges, Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis shamelessly fished for the sympathy and cash of the American public on Wednesday by setting up and promoting a GoFundMe page called the "Michael Cohen Truth Fund" with the highly questionable goal of covering the prison-bound fixer's legal fees. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. 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Make sure Common Dreams keeps bringing you the news that matters -- please pitch in now.](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [I Believe in Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [] [] [Trump Tells People in Serious Legal Peril Not to Hire Lawyer Who He Dutifully Employed for Over a Decade](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) 1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Yeah, who would be such a moron as to hire him?" --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Cohen's Lawyer Says Client 'More Than Happy' to Share Information 'That Should Be of Interest' to Mueller](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) 1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H by Jon Queally, staff writer Just hours after President Donald Trump was directly implicated in a criminal conspiracy by his own longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, who plead guilty to eight felony counts in a federal court on Tuesday, Cohen's own lawyer, Lanny Davis is saying that his client has a lot more information that would be of interest to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and that he will be "more than happy" to share it. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Like a Parallel Universe': At Trump Rally, No Mention of Cohen or Manafort But Plenty of Surreal 'Drain the Swamp' and 'Lock Her Up' Chants](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H by Jake Johnson, staff writer President Donald Trump on Tuesday was directly implicated in a criminal conspiracy by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen and—almost simultaneously—a federal jury found his former campaign manager guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, but you wouldn't know it by watching Trump's inane campaign-style rally in West Virginia Tuesday night --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [] [] Views... [] [I Lived Through Watergate. I Lived Through the Saturday Night Massacre. There Never Was Anything Like This](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) ["This is a mortal blow to the administration*, which may stagger around for a year or so before it falls over and crushes people, but there is no way I can see that this gets any better for the president* or the people around him." (Photo:Getty) ](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Charles P. Pierce The Cohen and Manafort developments could be a mortal blow to the Trump presidency—and Brett Kavanaugh's nomination --------------------------------------------------------------- [The DNC Just Lifted Their Ban on Fossil Fuel Contributions. Who Will Say No to the Tide of “Dark Oily” Money?](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) ["We cannot responsibly support politicians taking money from the companies which directly imperil our future." (Photo: Twitter/Sunrise Movement)](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Jesse Meisenhelter As the 2020 primary begins, individual Democrats must show climate leadership by taking the #NoFossilFuelMoney pledge --------------------------------------------------------------- [What the Manafort Verdict Means](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, leaving court in Alexandria, Va., in March. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Image)](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Noah Bookbinder, Barry Berke, Norman Eisen It’s Robert Mueller’s biggest victory yet, in one of the most successful special counsel investigations in history --------------------------------------------------------------- [Donald Trump Is Heading Towards Impeachment – and You Have the Power to Make That Happen](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [ "If you want Trump to stop greasing up the Oval Office with Big Mac wrappers, get up and do something about it." (Photo: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Nash Riggins The president's cronies are finally turning on their master and burying him in a series of legal predicaments from which not even Paul Ryan can rescue him --------------------------------------------------------------- [What Is the GOP Trying to Hide About Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh?](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) meets with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on July 26, 2018, in Toomey's office in Washington, D.C. President Trump nominated Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring. (Photo: Jonathan Tamari/ Staff) ](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Will Bunch What we do know suggests a man guided less by bedrock principle and more by cutthroat 21st-Century partisan politics --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Other ’68: Black Power During Reconstruction](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [Isaiah Dickerson and Callie House advocated for a national pension fund for formerly enslaved people for their years of unpaid labor. (Photo: National Archives.)](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) by Adam Sanchez Recalling a time when the empowerment of the most oppressed in our society paved the way for other social struggles also gives weight to today’s slogan that all lives will matter only when Black lives matter --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3AcTyXJ8e9H) [] [] Newswire... 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