Marjorie Cohn | Trump's Nuclear Threat Warrants Removal From Office

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[Donate Now]( [Trump's Nuclear Threat Warrants Removal From Office]( Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Donald Trump's veiled threat to use nuclear weapons against North Korea is illegal as well as horrifying; it warrants his removal from office, under the 25th Amendment or by impeachment. Impeachment is a political, not a legal, process, but we cannot expect the Republican-controlled Congress to take action to remove Trump. [Read the Article]( [What Jeff Sessions' Latest Attack Means for the Future of Legal Marijuana]( Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Lawmakers say Jeff Sessions' decision to rescind an Obama-era guidance instructing federal prosecutors to take a hands-off approach to cannabis in states where it's legal will give them the momentum they need to pass legislation tying the Justice Department's hands. So why did Sessions do it? As we have learned from the war on drugs, marijuana prohibition gives law enforcement power over millions of people. [Read the Article]( [How Progressive States Could Fight Back Against the Republican Tax Scam]( Dean Baker, Truthout: The GOP decided to cover the costs of their tax cut bill in part by whacking Democratic states like California and New York, which have relatively high state and local taxes. The tax increase was explicitly designed to make it more expensive for progressive states to provide services like health care and education to their people. These states absolutely should look to fight back by finding ways to avoid the tax increase. [Read the Article]( [Can Prisons Be Flipped for Good?]( Zoe Loftus-Farren, Truthout: Jail closures around the country beg the question of what should be done with detention facilities that are no longer in use. GrowingChange, a nonprofit that's flipping old detention facilities into bastions of local food and social justice, has solutions. [Read the Article]( [Israel's New Blacklist of BDS-Supporting Groups Sparks Outrage]( Staff, Common Dreams: Advocacy groups vowed to continue their fight for peace and justice after the Israeli government announced they are banned from the country for their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. The list of 20 groups was published Sunday and follows Israel's passage of a law in March 2017 banning BDS supporters from entering the country. [Read the Article]( [Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Is Gone, but Scrutiny Will Continue]( Jessica Huseman, ProPublica: President Trump abruptly dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity last week, which he'd set up after alleging with no evidence that he lost the popular vote due to millions of illegal votes. In a statement, he said the Department of Homeland Security will take up the commission's mantle while avoiding "endless legal battles." [Read the Article]( [Time's Up: Activists Join Actresses on Golden Globes Red Carpet to Call for Gender and Racial Justice]( Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: At Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony, actors embraced the #MeToo movement and called for gender and racial justice in the post-Harvey Weinstein era. Eight actresses brought social justice activists with them. We speak with two attendees: Puerto Rican activist and independent journalist Rosa Clemente and President of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Saru Jayaraman. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript]( [The Fallout From Police Violence Is Killing Black Women Like Erica Garner]( Christen A. Smith, The Conversation: On Christmas Eve, Erica Garner suffered a massive heart attack which caused extensive brain damage. She died on December 30. This latest loss emphasizes something we have known: Black women are dying from the trauma of police violence and this issue must be grappled with before more die. [Read the Article]( [Real Estate Greed Caused the Deadly Bronx Fire]( Ellie Hamrick, Socialist Worker: Fires are one particularly horrifying symptom of a larger problem in New York: As real estate developers continually remake the city in their interests, the working-class majority finds itself increasingly squeezed to the margins, concentrated in old, run-down and unsafe apartments. [Read the Article]( ["Do Kids Die, Mom?" Facing the Future With Trepidation in the Age of Trump]( Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch: I'm not fixated on passing our modest family house down to my three kids or making sure that our ragtag "heirlooms" survive their childhood. What preoccupies me is the bleak, violent, unstable future I fear as their only inheritance. [Read the Article]( [Want to strengthen Truthout and help us plan for the future? 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