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Saying they fear President Trump with his finger on the nuclear trigger, two congressional Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would prevent the White House from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war from Capitol Hill.
Treaties and official agreements between nations designed to solve a particular problem are notoriously tricky to create and then police, but measuring their success is normally pretty simple. Either they work well, or not at all.
Senator Ed Markey and Rep. Ted Lieu introduced legislation intended to prevent President Donald Trump from using nuclear weapons in a first-strike scenario without the explicit approval of Congress on Tuesday.
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A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that President Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by illegally receiving foreign payments through his businesses.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, drew widespread criticism Sunday after she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's press briefing on inauguration crowd sizes, saying the newly minted spokesman had given "alternative facts" to those cited in media reports.
Miami is not where Jon Cowan expected to be on Inauguration Day.
Yvette Clarke, a Democratic congresswoman from Brooklyn, New York, had initially planned on attending Donald Trump's inauguration out of respect for tradition and the institution of the presidency. But last week, she started to waver.
A steadily growing number of congressional Democrats are refusing to attend Donald Trump's inauguration, sending a message of resistance at the outset of Trump's presidency. It's less clear, however, what exactly that message is, and whether it will do the Democratic Party much good as it attempts to find its way in the Trump era.