“We’re all afraid . . . ” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told a gathering of nonprofit and tribal leaders in her home state on April 14. “We are in a time and a place where I have not been before. I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real — and that’s not right.”
Murkowski, one of few Republican senators to have publicly opposed President Donald Trump, was voicing concern about his administration’s wide-ranging effort to seek revenge against a lengthy list of individuals perceived as political enemies. The New York Times listed more than 50 individuals who have been “targeted for retribution” by