Chris D’Angelo

2 weeks ago | hcn.org | Chris D’Angelo |Jimmy Tobias |Roque Planas |Gretchen King

This story was originally published by Public Domain and is republished here by permission. A legal official at the Department of Justice has concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to not only shrink but completely abolish areas protected as national monuments. The memo provides the legal framework for a broad reduction of federal land protections that Trump officials have alluded to for months.

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Chris D’Angelo |Jimmy Tobias |Roque Planas |Gretchen King

This story was originally published by Public Domain and is republished here by permission. A legal official at the Department of Justice has concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to not only shrink but completely abolish areas protected as national monuments. The memo provides the legal framework for a broad reduction of federal land protections that Trump officials have alluded to for months.

1 month ago | theintercept.com | Jimmy Tobias |Chris D’Angelo

The day after Election Day in 2020, a large group of President Donald Trump’s supporters descended on Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center, at the time known as the TCF Center. They were trying to stop poll workers inside from counting ballots. Police ultimately blocked many of the Trump supporters from entering the room where the poll workers were fulfilling their duties, but the crowd gathered outside the room, banging on its windows. “Stop the count!” they chanted.