reTrump always had a problem with freedom of expression. In the past, he sued reporter Tim O’Brien and the New York Times for allegedly underestimating his wealth. Trump claimed he was worth billions, but O’Brien calculated the number at no more than $ 250 million, not shoddy, but not staggering, …
Read More »‘We look like fools’: the ties between the United Kingdom and the United States threatened by corruption | Law
British anti-corruption investigators accused their US counterparts of cheating on them during a dispute over a criminal investigation that threatened cooperation between countries and led the UK to complain that “we look like fools.” The extraordinary dispute is uncovered in a series of confidential exchanges, watched by The Guardian, between …
Read More »Bitcoin complies with banking as the US bank regulator allows for the safekeeping of cryptocurrencies
The relationship between banks and cryptocurrency in the United States has been as complicated as the concept of “money” itself. But today’s interpretive letter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) may be changing all that. The OCC serves to establish, regulate and supervise national banks. Today’s …
Read More »ACLU says Trump sent Michael Cohen back to prison ‘for writing a book’ | United States News
Donald Trump “cannot jail Michael Cohen for writing a book,” a senior official with the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday night as the organization filed a lawsuit against the federal government. In a July 2 tweet, Cohen said he was “near the end of my book, the planned release …
Read More »Trump consults a Bush torture lawyer on how to circumvent the law and rule by decree | United States News
The Trump administration has been consulting with the former government attorney who wrote the legal justification for the submarine, about how the president could try to rule by decree. John Yoo told Axios that he had been speaking to White House officials about his opinion that a recent Supreme Court …
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