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This kind of emolument is supposed to be banned by the constitution, but the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has made it impossible to enforce against Republicans via any mechanism other than impeachment.
Progressive clergy members are in the spotlight — protesting, organizing and getting arrested. It’s a split screen to the Trump administration’s muscular, conservative Christianity.
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.