Michael Cohen and Liz Cheney – Paying the Price for Speaking Truth to Power
Former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and Michael Cohen would both qualify for John Kennedy’s list of “Profiles in Courage” for the same decision: to speak the truth about Donald Trump. And they share three things in common for doing so: They both paid a heavy price in personal threats and professional setbacks. Both paid...
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Hamas’ Terrorist War Against Israel: There Is No ‘On the Other Hand’
I spent the weekend and most of Monday engaging in back-and-forth with fellow progressive Democrats who were trying to change the subject on the clear black-and-white facts about Hamas’ terrorist war against Israel. I kept reminding them of four indisputable facts. Fact one: Hamas openly declares it hates Jews. It is an openly bigoted, anti-Semitic organization....
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Davis: Time to correct the record again — Hillary Clinton did not have a single email marked ‘classified’
There has been substantial media coverage of President Biden and former Vice President Pence both removing marked classified documents outside the White House after they left the vice presidency (and, in the case of Biden, also including after he was a U.S. senator). Both insist they did so inadvertently. Of course, the word “inadvertent” does not apply to former President Trump’s behavior. As we now know from Mr. Trump’s own admission, he knew documents he took to Mar-a-Lago were classified because, he said, he had...
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Davis: The challenge of the White House ‘getting out in front’ with combined legal-media strategy when you don’t know all the facts
In early 1997, when I served as President Clinton’s special White House counsel, I was on my way to the daily morning meeting of the White House counsel’s office on the second floor of the West Wing. No non-attorneys were allowed to be there. My position as special counsel — a lawyer with media and political experience to speak for...
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Davis: Democrats must endorse Republican proposals to allow floor votes from all members
On CNN’s “State of the Union” program Sunday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), whose congressional district includes liberals in Austin and San Antonio and MAGA Republicans in mostly rural areas, announced his support — and that of the Republican Conference — for passage of a new rules package under new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). I support this proposal, as should House Democrats, to allow any proposal for a resolution or...
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