Legal & Constitutional Issues - Arizona Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the Speaker of the House for refusing to swear in a duly elected member of Congress [1][4] - The lawsuit argues that the Speaker is violating the law and the Constitution by depriving 813,000 Arizonans of representation [4] - The Attorney General seeks a court order to allow a judge to swear in the Congresswoman-elect if the Speaker refuses [5] - A court ruling in the 1960s established that no Speaker of the House can deny a duly elected member of Congress from being seated [18] Political Implications - The situation could set a precedent for 2026 if the House changes party control, potentially allowing the Speaker to refuse to seat members from the opposing party [13][16] - The Speaker's actions are seen as playing politics and potentially related to the Congresswoman-elect being the final vote on the Epstein file discharge petition [9][14] - The Republican party has a very small margin in the house [16] Impact on Constituents - The refusal to swear in the Congresswoman-elect deprives 813,000 Arizonans of representation in Congress [4] - Constituents are unable to receive essential services such as assistance with social security, veterans benefits, and healthcare issues [8] - The Congresswoman-elect is unable to address urgent issues such as recent flooding in her district [7]

You know what time it is. Money, power, politics, and the US bailout of Argentina is hitting another major obstacle. The Wall Street Journal reports multiple banks, just slow down on this, including JP Morgan, Bank America, and Goldman Sachs, the big ones.They're out there hunting for collateral to back a 20 billion loan to the country because they want to make sure they get their money back. It would be part of the Trump administration's $40 billion lifeline. But US banks have not been lending to Argentina ...

Okay, by now you've seen the striking images. Massive crowds marching in no kings rallies through some of America's largest cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles. And also in deep red Republican areas like Valley City, North Dakota, where Trump won by 35 points. In Morgan, North Carolina, where Trump won by 41 points, in Durant, Oklahoma, where Trump won by 58 points and in Gunersville, Alabama, where Trump won by 72 points.Now, across the country, organizers estimate 7 million people turne ...

And it is day 275 the of the second Trump administration. Right now hundreds of thousands of American federal workers are going unpaid and many of them are still going to work every day. Over the weekend we saw a historically huge protest against the president.Of course it was called the no kings movement. And with all of that going on, the president is reportedly trying to get the Justice Department to now pay him $230 million in taxpayer money. Yes, this is happening.According to the New York Times, the p ...

Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. Donald Trump wants to be a king.It's the best explanation for everything he's been doing just in recent days. Just look at what he's doing right now to the White House. That is, of course, the people's house.It's our house as Americans, as citizens. There it is. The residence of every president since John Adams in 1800.And that is more destruction the White House has seen since the troops for the British crown burned it down the War of 1812. Trump wants the White ...

Joining us now, former Justice Department pardon Attorney Liz Oyer and MSNBC political analyst Anthony Coley. He served in the DOJ as the director of the Office of Public Affairs during the Biden administration. >> Let's start with that New York Times reporting about President Trump asking DOJ to comp him for the lawsuits and investigations into him.There were supposed to be guardrails that those guardrails were an independent DOJ. Do those guardrails exist anymore. Those guardrails do not exist within the ...

Tonight we are learning horrific new details about Jeffrey Epstein and Gilelay Maxwell's crimes from one of the most outspoken survivors of their abuse. In her new postumous memoir, Virginia Duprey, who died by suicide earlier this year, recounts with gut-wrenching detail the emotional, the physical, and the sexual abuse that she suffered from the two convicted sex offenders, as well as others who are in their circle. This is what she writes in part. In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of weal ...

Senator Chris Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut. He spoke to the crowd at the DC No Kings rally on Saturday and he joins me now. Um, Senator, first I I just got to get your reaction to the reporting from the Times today and we got the the president responding to it a little bit about he's going to have his Justice Department settle $230 million with himself.>> Yeah. I mean, this is obviously abs Yeah. uh you know, listen, what he's doing is sort of changing the Overton window uh every single day in term ...

President Trump is trying to move over $200 million from taxpayers into his own pocket. It is a blatant grift. It's an ethics scandal.But it actually gets worse in the details of why the president claims that he should be paid out of the federal funds you of course pay through your tax dollars. Trump demanding that his own DOJ, which he still oversees, of course, in the cabinet, pay him 230 million from taxpayers. He cites his own conduct that led to past federal investigations as the reasoning.Now, just of ...

We interviewed Joan Bayz for the Best People podcast. We asked her what was different about the movements in the 60s and she said, "Well, lots of things, but one of them we had each other and we had the music." On Saturday, 7 million Americans found each other at the No Kings protest. And today, thanks to Jeff Daniels, we've got the music.>> This is a song I wrote called Crazy World, which is how I cope. >> Okay, let's hear it. >> I've seen a young girl smiling.It's something he just said. I watched him fal ...