NotedDC — Nadler, Maloney prepare for face-off
Two of the most powerful House Democrats are heading into the final week of campaigning as they fight to keep their spot in Congress. The primary between Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney is shaping up to be one of the most consequential incumbent-on-incumbent battles in recent cycles. Democrats in New York "dread the choice," one party strategist told us, noting Nadler and Maloney's roles as chairs of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, respectively. Both lawmakers were first elected to Congress in 1
Read MoreThank young people for the Inflation Reduction Act
When I first left my investing career to dedicate my life to fighting the climate crisis, the reaction from my peers ranged from “that’s a 2050 problem” to “there’s no climate crisis” to “you know solar is never going to be cheap enough, right?” While more than half of S&P 500 companies now voluntarily disclose climate risks in their annual reports, in 2012, most public and private sector leaders treated climate as an issue for hippy tree-huggers, not investors and business leaders. But young people knew better. Despite being relegated t
Read MoreFBI interviewed Trump White House lawyers about documents at center of Mar-a-Lago search: report
The FBI has reportedly interviewed former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Patrick Philbin about the documents the former president stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence that were seized in a search last week. The lawyers were questioned about how boxes of White House documents came to be stored at the Palm Beach, Fla., resort past the end of Donald Trump's presidential term, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The National Archives reportedly cont
Read MoreTrump’s declassification claim may offer limited defense
Donald Trump’s claim he declassified the suite of documents seized by authorities after they searched his Florida home may provide only a limited defense for the former president, if the Justice Department decides to pursue what would be a historic case. Trump, like any U.S. president, would have wide-ranging powers to declassify documents — but not in sweeping fashion and not without igniting a chain of events that would document the request, according to legal experts interviewed by The Hill. The broad power also likely wouldn’t permit Trump to
Read MorePolitics aside, the unsealing of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant is a victory for the rule of law
News of the FBI search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property caught many by surprise. Never before had law enforcement searched the home of a former president for material related to a possible crime. In a nation enduring stark political division, the responses to the search have been predictably divergent. On the one hand, some have
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