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b"On Friday, the Democratic National Committee filed a surprise federal lawsuit against Donald Trump, his son Don Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, several other members of the Trump Campaign, as well as Russia and WikiLeaks, for what the DNC's characterizes in the complaint as a broad "conspiracy" to steal private documents and undermine the DNC and the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign in "an act of previously unimaginable treachery."\\xa0 Wells Fargo was slapped with a $1 billion fine by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for hoaxing more than half a million customers into purchasing car insurance they did not need. While it was the first major action by the CFPB since Trump muscled his own Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney into the dual role of Acting CFPB Director, the record fine is only a small percentage of what Wells is receiving from Trump's recent massive tax cuts. Meanwhile, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) has come up with a new scheme to twist the obscure Congressional Review Act (CRA) to gut decades of executive agency regulations with a simple majority vote in each house. The GOP Senate voted this week to kill a 2013 CFPB "guidance" document enacted to prevent racial discrimination in auto-loans, but Toomey's new interpretation would allow the undoing of decades of established rules between now and the start of the next Congressional term in 2019.\\xa0 JAMES GOODWIN of the Center for Progressive Reform discusses this dangerous and insidious scheme that has received disturbingly little coverage since its first-time use this week. Finally, the release of memos written by fired FBI Director James Comey after meetings with Donald Trump confirm Comey's earlier descriptions of those bizarre encounters, and have received much coverage for the President's described concerns about Russian hookers and his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to felonies in Robert Mueller's Special Counsel probe. Less discussed, however, are the troubling details from the memos revealing that Trump was similarly obsessed with having the FBI throw journalists in jail -- in stark violation of the First Amendment -- for reporting on leaks coming out of his White House..."