The wealthy and politically powerful family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has announced it will no longer support Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), the first Republican in Congress to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. But the family dubiously claimed that the decision was not due to Amash’s recent call for Trump’s impeachment.

A day after New York’s legislature passed a law empowering state law enforcement officials to effectively circumvent presidential pardons, the Democratically controlled Assembly and Senate passed another bill aimed squarely at the presidency, allowing the state’s tax authority to hand over politicians’ state tax returns — including President Trump’s — to Congress.

President Donald Trump’s golf habit has cost taxpayers $102 million and counting, HuffPost estimated in a Wednesday report, based on an analysis of everything from Air Force One fuel to golf carts.

In a public outburst on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said that he will refuse to work with congressional Democrats on an infrastructure package until the House halts its investigations into him.

The same judge who struck down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban just a few months ago said Tuesday that a new six-week ban signed into law by the state’s governor “smacks of defiance.”

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has aggressively lobbied President Donald Trump in private to pardon several accused war criminals, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. Trump appears to have heeded his and others’ calls, indicating over the weekend that he was preparing to pardon multiple alleged war criminals.

But what about her emails?

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday joined the club of Trump officials revealed to have used private email addresses for government business, a practice that often violates the rules for retaining documents for the benefit those who want to examine the public record.

After 25 white men in the Alabama state Senate approved a bill outlawing nearly all abortion in the state, which was subsequently signed into law with by Gov. Kay Ivey (R), some prominent Republicans have sought to distance themselves from the legislation, which is far to the right of where polling indicates most Americans stand on the issue.

The American Prospect’s David Dayen late last week noted what he called President Donald Trump’s “most nakedly corrupt tweet”: an appeal to Congress to reject a bill giving tribal sovereignty over 321 Interior-Department-controlled acres to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts. Or as the President described it, “a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren.”

The EPA should consider asking its former administrator, Scott Pruitt, to pay $123,942 back to the government, internal government investigators said Thursday. That’s the combined extra cost to taxpayers of flying Pruitt and his security detail in first- or business-class luxury over several trips in 2017.