Noel C. Cilker

Just in time for World Environment Day , President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement on Thursday, joining Syria and Nicaragua and flustering many state and local governments, businesses and citizens. Many of those organizations vowed to uphold the agreement  in defiance of Trump's decision. San Francisco lights its city hall in green - joining New York, Boston, Atlanta, Paris, Montreal, Mexico City and others - in protest of President Trump withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.   Twitter There has been some support of the withdrawal. The Washington Examiner  called it a "terrible deal for the U.S." : "Exiting the agreement means the U.S. can lead with strength in promoting energy and environmental policies, protecting U.S. jobs and easing the costly regulatory burden across the country. Now the Trump administration can push ahead with a plan that conserves the environment while protecting ...

The last two weeks, we can all agree, was crazy for American politics . Also crazy is that the word "impeachment" is beginning to be used more seriously and has been called for from the House floor . Even Nate Silver, the prediction guru behind FiveThirtyEight.com, puts the odds at 50% that President Trump won't serve his entire term, either because of impeachment or resignation. But another Constitutional provision to remove the president from office has been getting some attention lately. The 25th Amendment. Text of the 25th Amendment.   It was adopted in 1967 to clear up confusion surrounding presidential succession, but the part that people have been looking at these days is Section 4. It allows the vice president and the cabinet to declare the president unfit for leadership: "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to th...

President Donald Trump's bombshell firing of FBI Director James Comey is leaving oversized craters in the political environment. It's not unusual for incoming presidents to fire or ask for the resignations of bureaucrats left over from the previous administration, but Comey's firing has politicians, the press, and politically-tuned-in citizens on edge. The unease is due to the FBI's investigation of President Trump and his associates and their possible ties to Russia. Firing the director leading that investigation is leaving a host of commentators crying foul. President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey.   Rex/Shutterstock David Ignatius of the Washington Post  wrote: "Comey’s firing takes the country closer to the dangerous collision that has been looming since allegations began about possible connections between Trump and his associates and the Russian covert influence operation Comey has been investigating since July." The Los ...