By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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Leadership Conference Helps High Schoolers Build Skills
Nearly 100 high school students from throughout New Mexico, including Mountainair High School, traveled to Albuquerque to participate in the GEAR UP New Mexico Student Leadership Conference last month to engage them as young leaders in their communities. GEAR UP New Mexico, a division of the New Mexico Higher Education Department, is a federally-funded program […]
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Leadership Conference Helps High Schoolers Build Skills
Nearly 100 high school students from throughout New Mexico, including Mountainair High School, traveled to Albuquerque to participate in the GEAR UP New Mexico Student Leadership Conference last month to engage them as young leaders in their communities. GEAR UP New Mexico, a division of the New Mexico Higher Education Department, is a federally-funded program […]
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The Hunter Biden Pardon: The Tip of the Iceberg
After stating over and over that this absolutely would not happen, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter this week. I think it’s kind of lousy. But against the landscape of the previous pardons, and the pardons likely to come from his predecessor who is about to be his successor, does Biden’s action send any sort […]
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The Hunter Biden Pardon: The Tip of the Iceberg
After stating over and over that this absolutely would not happen, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter this week. I think it’s kind of lousy. But against the landscape of the previous pardons, and the pardons likely to come from his predecessor who is about to be his successor, does Biden’s action send any sort […]
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Democrats strongly opposed a Hunter Biden pardon. Now, they back it.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen, […]
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Democrats strongly opposed a Hunter Biden pardon. Now, they back it.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen, […]
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It’s not just Kash Patel. Many Trump picks have suggested retribution.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government – and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.” But the Florida Republican […]
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It’s not just Kash Patel. Many Trump picks have suggested retribution.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government – and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.” But the Florida Republican […]