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Pete Buttigieg drops out of US Presidential race after unexpected South Carolina primary
Buttigieg took center stage when securing a narrow victory in the Iowa caucuses.
March 2, 2020 -
Failure of leadership: US Senator Bernie Sanders on Trump’s response to Delhi riots
Bernie Sanders is the second Democratic presidential nominee after Senator Elizabeth Warren to speak against the violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi.
February 27, 2020 -
Acquittal and After
Markedly, he has been acquitted by the legislature and not by the judiciary, and pregnant are the implications of the difference.
February 8, 2020 -
Trump impeachment: House of representatives sends articles to Senate, all set for trial
The two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power and the other for obstructing the House investigation, were delivered in blue folders in a solemn procession by the newly appointed House managers
January 16, 2020 -
Jury would convict President Trump ‘in three minutes’: US House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Most Republicans have stuck with Trump as the affair has unfolded, saying there is no clear and direct evidence that he wrongly pressured Ukraine for personal political gain.
December 9, 2019 -
Mike Bloomberg, one of world’s richest men enters US presidential race
Bloomberg offered a preview of what he will focus on in the race, including his philanthropic work fighting gun violence, closing coal-fired power plants and funding medical research.
November 25, 2019 -
White House refuses to cooperate in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry
'Your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections,' said President's counsel Pat Cipollone of the probe, which is weighing whether Trump abused his office by seeking a quid pro quo from Ukraine.
October 9, 2019 -
Trump impeachment row: US president has put whistleblower under danger, says lawyers
Andrew Bakaj, the lead attorney for the anonymous intelligence official who spoke about Trump’s activities relating to Ukraine, expressed his fears saying the whistleblower could be put “in harm’s way” were his or her identity made public.
September 30, 2019 -
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry of Trump for ‘betrayal of his oath of office’
Since the revelations that Trump sought the help of Ukraine's President to investigate 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden many Democrats were infuriated, particularly lawmakers with national security credentials.
September 25, 2019 -
Emergency in America
The emergency has swiftly been debunked as “fear mongering for political ends, unlawful, and a violation of the US Constitution” ~ a faint echo of the Emergency that was proclaimed in India in June 1975.
February 19, 2019 -
Patchwork quilt
One major issue of discord was the refusal of the Republicans to accept a cap on the number of undocumented immigrants who might be held in detention centres run by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).
February 14, 2019 -
Ms Pelosi’s gavel
Aside from the historic choice, Ms Pelosi has started her innings at the crease to end the shutdown in the United States of America.
January 6, 2019 -
US government shutdown set to drag on to 2019 as Trump, Democrats stick to their stands
President Donald Trump has refused to sign any stopgap spending bill that does not have provisions to fund a wall along the US-Mexico border which he says is essential to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.
December 28, 2018 -
Year of competing dangerously
Since the great recession of 2008, competition has been a race to the bottom in almost every sphere, but more so in politics.
December 23, 2018 -
Shutdown if Senate does not approve border wall funding: Donald Trump
Trump instructed Senator Mitch McConnell to fight “the Wall and Border Security as hard as he fought for anything”.
December 21, 2018 -
Threat of impeachment
The midterm elections have ended in the US with an apparently confusing message: Republicans have gained more seats in the Senate, Democrats in the House. But the real message is unambiguous: President Trump’s unchallenged rule has ended. He could do so far whatever he wanted, for he had both chambers of Congress on his side, …
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November 20, 2018 -
Constitutionally perilous
Donald Trump’s counter-blast has astonished the United States of America and not the least because of its timing. And seldom in the country’s history has the presidency been mired in the kind of turmoil that it now contends with ~ two years after the presidential election and two days after the midterm convulsion. The Democrats’ …
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November 12, 2018