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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with reporters after his panel voted in a closed session to send more than 50 interview transcripts from its now-closed Russia investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Two associates of President Donald Trump have been charged with lying to the committee and Schiff said Mueller should consider whether additional perjury charges are warranted. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Adam Schiff: Democrats prepared to sue Trump administration, subpoena Robert Mueller to get report

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Stuart Wexler leads his Advanced Placement government class in a discussion at Hightstown High School in Hightstown, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. The high school students set their sights on an ambitious goal _ federal legislation to create a national archive of documents involving decades of unsolved civil rights cases. Students at a New Jersey school had worked on it for years. Now, all they needed was President Donald Trump’s signature. But if he didn’t act in time, the bill would die. The students took to social media and enlisted the aid of a new senator from Alabama. It worked: Trump signed and it’s now law. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Teens tweet Trump, find Senate ally, score civil rights win

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

US funds Coast Guard icebreaker in massive spending package

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President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump says he’ll veto attempt to stop wall building

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a National African American History Month reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump vows veto as Democrats try to block emergency order

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2018 file photo, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. The fight over President Donald Trump’s border wall is heading to the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate, putting Republicans in the uncomfortable spot of deciding whether to back his declaration of a national emergency. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP senators to watch on Trump’s emergency declaration

By LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on firearm background checks by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

What the Democrats should do about gun background checks

By Frank Miniter

In this Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump declares a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama judge, Trump judge, Clinton judge to hear border wall emergency declaration lawsuits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Green New Deal Cards Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The bluff of the Green New Deal

By Anthony J. Sadar and Susan T. Cammarata

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Wielding authority for a national emergency

By Donald Lambro

President Donald Trump pauses during a signing event for &quot;Space Policy Directive 4&quot; in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump’s brazen unconstitutional overreach

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Toyota sedans are displayed in a showroom at Puente Hills Toyota Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Industry, Calif. If 25 percent tariffs are fully assessed against imported parts and vehicles, and they include Canada and Mexico, the price of imported vehicles would rise more than 17 percent, or around $5,000 each, according to forecasts from IHS Markit. “I think it would be harmful to the whole economy,” said Howard Hakes, president of Hitchcock Automotive, which has three Toyota showrooms in metro Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

US automakers to Trump: Don’t slap tariffs on imported cars

By TOM KRISHER and PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

High court won’t take case of ex-Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock

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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, steps out of a cab during his arrival on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cohen won't appear as scheduled before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Feb. 7, 2019. Cohen's adviser Lanny Davis says the delay is on the advice of Cohen's lawyers because Cohen's still cooperating in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)

Michael Cohen to share ‘chilling’ details of working with Trump in congressional hearings: Report

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

"Declaring a national emergency when one does not exist is immoral and illegal," said New York Attorney General Letitia James. (Associated Press)

16 states’ lawsuit aims to stop Trump border wall emergency declaration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A group of suspected al Qaeda militants accused in the killing of an army general in a suicide bombing stand trial at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen, in this April 22, 2014 file photo. (Associated Press)

Iran-al Qaeda alliance may provide legal rationale for U.S. military strikes

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Marianna Trevino-Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center, said Friday that construction was continuing on land adjacent to hers. She said the North American Butterfly Association, which runs the sanctuary, will continue to fight in court while the government envisions a concrete wall that would bisect the center. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump wall plan hits National Butterfly Center

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, wants to know why illegal immigrant felons are being released from police custody. (Associated Press)

Ron Johnson laments Trump emergency declaration

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump gestures to the audience as he heads to the Oval Office after speaking during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump emergency declaration faces fights in the courts

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s skewed picture of border perils

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN - Associated Press