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Nov 07 2019
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A gerrymandering dirty dozen: What experts see as the House’s worst districts
How do you know when you've seen a gerrymandered district? Maybe it looks like a duck or a snake, or a pair of earmuffs. Or maybe there's no obvious sign that the mapmakers played games with the contours in order to ensure a particular electoral outcome inside those boundaries.
The last contests using the current set of congressional maps are a year away. After that, the results of the
The FulcrumSep 24 2020
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The Biden Agenda: What Could Be Ahead for Higher Education
Expensive plans for free college and a return to Obama's Title IX guidance for starters.
When it comes to domestic policy, the question is which President Biden would emerge: the affable Obamaphile centrist or the AOC sock puppet? In higher education, it’s something of a difference without a distinction. Biden may have been the most centrist top-tier candidate in the 2020 Democratic
The DispatchJul 30 2016
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Courts Crush Voter Suppression Just in Time for Election Day
July may be the month that voter suppression died. In the latest of a string of shocking judicial decisions, a federal appeals court Friday struck down North Carolina’s voting restrictions, some of the strictest in the nation. Today’s action comes after the normally conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Texas’s Voter ID laws, and a federal district court placed an injunction
Daily BeastJun 06 2017
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'The Quiet Man': The Powerful Conservative White House Lawyer In The Middle Of It All
By day, Don McGahn is a straight-laced lawyer, but by night, he's a long-haired rocker.
In the White House drama that occupies almost every news day — from the firing of the FBI director, to the Russia probe, to the controversial travel bans — there is one crucial name that hardly ever is mentioned publicly: Don McGahn. He is the White House counsel, the president's official lawyer, and
NPR (Online News)May 08 2019
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Asylum 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Backs Trump: OK to Make Asylum Seekers Wait in Mexico
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings while the policy is challenged in court, handing the president a major victory, even if it only proves temporary.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — a frequent target of the president's complaints — reversed a decision by a San Francisco judge
Newsmax (News)Sep 10 2014
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How Barack Obama is expanding presidential power — and what it means for the future
On a hot day in late July, members of the House of Representatives took to the chamber's floor to make a momentous decision: whether to file an unprecedented lawsuit against the president of the United States. The charge was electric. President Obama, they said, had violated his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law.
VoxNov 05 2019
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GOP's Bevin trailing in Kentucky gubernatorial race, as Trump calls for 'angry majority' to rise
Republican incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin was narrowly ahead Tuesday evening in the closely contested governor's race in Kentucky, where President Trump has called for an "angry majority" of GOP voters -- a nod to Richard Nixon's “silent majority" and Ronald Reagan's “moral majority" -- to send a powerful message to Democrats heading into the 2020 election season.
With 62 percent of
Fox News DigitalJun 19 2020
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‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection
With his poll numbers slumping, the president warns Republicans in a POLITICO interview not to abandon him.
President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign's multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.
In an Oval Office interview Thursday focusing on the
PoliticoAug 04 2020
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AllStances™: Cancel Culture
Is cancel culture a problem? Should there be social consequences for some views? Which views? Explore all perspectives and stances about cancel culture with AllStances™ by AllSides.
Cancel Culture Doesn't Exist Strong criticism doesn't amount to persecution or a threat to free speech. See arguments » Cancel Culture Has Gone Too Far and Should End People should not be Julie MastrineMay 27 2015
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US Won't Seek High Court Review in Immigration Case
The government will not ask the Supreme Court to review a judge's decision that put on hold President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The decision came one day after a federal appeals court panel refused to lift a Texas judge's injunction that kept the sweeping immigration plan from taking effect.
U.S. District Court Judge
Newsmax (News)