Marjorie Cohn | Did Trump Commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

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[Click here to donate.]( [Click here to donate.]( (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: (877) 766-6476 [By Delaying Chemical Safety Rule, Pruitt Endangers First Responders and Refinery Towns]( Daniel Ross, Truthout: First responders and communities living in the shadow of chemical plants and refineries -- mostly Black, Brown and poor -- are being put at great risk by Scott Pruitt. As head of EPA, he is pushing to further delay implementation of a new federal rule setting tougher safety standards at facilities that handle and store hazardous substances. [Read the Article]( [Did Trump Commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors?]( Marjorie Cohn, Jurist: As evidence of Donald Trump's malfeasance emerges, the adage that the cover-up is worse than the crime may once again prove true. Evidence of a cover-up continues to mount: Trump's recent acts may well constitute probable cause that the president engaged in obstruction of justice and witness tampering. [Read the Article]( [Should We Treat Pharma as a Public Utility?]( Fran Quigley, Truthout: Pending legislation in Congress would force pharma companies to disclose their research costs and drug-pricing policies. Big Pharma is fiercely resisting this legislation because it is the logical first step toward treating the drug industry as a public utility with closely regulated business practices and prices. [Read the Article]( [From Betsy DeVos to Cops in Schools, Taking on the Education-Industrial Complex]( Sarah Jaffe, Truthout: Most "successful" people in the world never graduated, so education clearly must be bigger than that, says Elijah Armstrong, an education organizer with the National Education Association. You actually learn everything about the world through education, so why is it being pushed to certain communities that graduation is the only "bottom line"? If education has a bottom line, who is profiting from it? [Read the Article]( [What Kind of World Are We Building? The Promise of Feminism]( Sara Ahmed, Duke University Press: In this excerpt from Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed looks at the role of hope in feminism, the stereotypical figure of the judgmental feminist, and more. If we become feminists because of the inequality and injustice in the world, because of what the world is not, then what kind of world are we building? [Read the Book Excerpt]( ["Whatever Is Ahead of Me Is Far More Important Than the Past": Chelsea Manning Is Free]( Sam Knight, The District Sentinel: The source for some of the most explosive revelations in a generation walked free from a military prison on Wednesday morning. Army Private Chelsea Manning was released from a detention facility in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas on Wednesday, after being imprisoned since 2010. She was freed ahead of schedule after President Obama commuted her 35-year sentence in January. [Read the Article]( [Saying "No to Silence": Hear Murdered Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez in His Own Words]( Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell. No to silence." Those are the words of award-winning Mexican reporter Javier Valdez, after one of his colleagues, Miroslava Breach, was assassinated in late March. On Monday, Valdez was also assassinated. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript]( [Trump's New Bank Regulator: Lawyer Who Helped Banks Charge More Fees]( Cezary Podkul, ProPublica: Keith Noreika, a prominent Washington attorney who specializes in financial regulatory law, has made a career out of representing banks as they sought to fight back consumer-friendly state regulations and class-action lawsuits accusing banks of deceptive practices. As head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, he now has the power to override those state laws. [Read the Article]( [Four Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System]( Leah Penniman, YES! Magazine: As we work toward a racially just food system, abandoning the "colonizer" mentality that first created the problems is crucial. The communities at the front lines of food justice are composed of Black, Latino and Indigenous people, refugees and immigrants, and people criminalized by the penal system. We need to follow the lead of those directly affected by the issues. [Read the Article]( [ACLU Reveals Bills in 20 States Aiming to Criminalize Peaceful Protest -- Is Your State on the List?]( Julia Travers, EnviroNews: Since the election of Donald Trump, public protests, such as the Women's March, Climate March and the March for Science have flourished. In response, more than 30 bills spanning 20 states have been introduced in an effort to increase the penalties for peaceful protest, according to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. [Read the Article]( [Whistleblowers, Moral Injury and Endless War]( Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: If the US accepts the idea of fighting endless wars, it will have to accept that the costs of war are similarly endless: the tens of thousands of casualties, the 20 veteran suicides each day and the diminished lives of those who survive all of that. There's that pain, carried by an unknown number of people, that won't disappear, ever, and that goes by the label "moral injury." [Read the Article]( [In the Age of Trump, Democracy Reform Is Key]( Adam Eichen, Moyers & Company: Despite all the anti-Trump activism, democracy reform in and of itself is still capable of enlivening and mobilizing Americans who feel their voices are drowned out in our political system. Unless we act now, our democracy, the fundamental lifeblood of our political system, may no longer exist. [Read the Article]( [Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation ]( Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Subscribe]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy](   [The Newspaper Guild]