When the Trump administration began implementing a to bail out struggling employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a central concern was that the president would use the program to .It turns out that Trump’s pals weren’t the ones catching the windfall so much as Washington, D.C.’s . Among the entities cashing six to seven-figure checks from the in recent months were a fiscal responsibility advocacy organization run by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, a high-powered consulting firm run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the nonprofit headed by former Trump campaign official...…When the Trump administration began implementing a to bail out struggling employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a central concern was that the president would use the program to .It turns out that Trump’s pals weren’t the ones catching the windfall so much as Washington, D.C.’s . Among the entities cashing six to seven-figure checks from the in recent months were a fiscal responsibility advocacy organization run by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, a high-powered consulting firm run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the nonprofit headed by former Trump campaign official...WW…

Ordered to reduce the population of California’s overcrowded prisons, lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office made the case that some non-violent offenders needed to stay incarcerated or else the prison system would lose a source of cheap labor. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that California’s prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Three years later, in early 2014, the to allow non-violent, second time offenders who have served half of their sentence to be eligible for...…Ordered to reduce the population of California’s overcrowded prisons, lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office made the case that some non-violent offenders needed to stay incarcerated or else the prison system would lose a source of cheap labor. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that California’s prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Three years later, in early 2014, the to allow non-violent, second time offenders who have served half of their sentence to be eligible for...WW…

If an economic recovery task force is composed of members who didn’t know they’d been placed on it, does it really exist? That’s the question President Donald Trump confronts a day after of business heavyweights, labor leaders, celebrities, informal Trump advisers, “thought leaders,” and defense contractors who, they implied, would be working in conjunction with the president to nudge the country back to work in the face of a rising body count, a crashing economy, and public-health officials and governors’ dire warnings.Trump proudly touted his “Great American Economic Revival Industry...…If an economic recovery task force is composed of members who didn’t know they’d been placed on it, does it really exist? That’s the question President Donald Trump confronts a day after of business heavyweights, labor leaders, celebrities, informal Trump advisers, “thought leaders,” and defense contractors who, they implied, would be working in conjunction with the president to nudge the country back to work in the face of a rising body count, a crashing economy, and public-health officials and governors’ dire warnings.Trump proudly touted his “Great American Economic Revival Industry...WW…