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Oct 17 2018
News
Man accused of sending powder-filled letters to Trump sons pleads guilty
The man accused of sending threatening letters packed with a mysterious white powder to President Trump’s sons and a Democratic U.S. Senator pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court Wednesday.
Fox News DigitalJul 01 2020
Analysis
Want to Reform the Criminal Justice System? End the Drug War.
Protesters say America's criminal justice system is unfair.
It is.
Courts are so jammed that innocent people plead guilty to avoid waiting years for a trial. Lawyers help rich people get special treatment. A jail stay is just as likely to teach you crime as it is to help you get a new start. Overcrowded prisons cost a fortune and increase suffering for both prisoners and guards
ReasonJul 11 2019
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Trump to announce executive action on census citizenship question
President Trump on Thursday plans to announce an executive action related to the census, according to a White House official.
The action is expected to address the citizenship question that the Supreme Court recently blocked the administration from adding to the 2020 census. Trump tweeted that he will hold a news conference in the afternoon “on the Census and Citizenship.”
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The HillJun 28 2018
News
Senate faces bitter fight over Trump’s next pick
The fight over President Trump’s next nomination to the Supreme Court began almost immediately after the news broke of the opening on Wednesday.
The HillSep 28 2020
News
TikTok: US judge halts app store ban
TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction. The video-sharing app had faced being removed from Apple's App Store and Android's Google Play marketplace at midnight local time in Washington DC. Existing US-based users would have been able to have continued using it. But they would not have been able to have re-downloaded
BBC NewsDec 22 2017
News
Trump Administration Official Opposed Abortion for Teen Impregnated After Rape
Refugee Resettlement director’s denial was overruled by court order following ACLU lawsuit.
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 22 2021
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‘Next phase’ of criminal probe into Trump finances: Finding witnesses
Investigators in a criminal probe of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s real-estate business are combing through millions of pages of newly acquired records with an eye toward identifying witnesses who can bring the documents to life for a jury, say two people familiar with the probe.
Some of the case’s key figures are well-known. Trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, met
ReutersOct 10 2018
News
Supremes Clear Way for Voter Id Requirement in Key Senate Race
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow a North Dakota law requiring voters to produce government ID with a current residential street address when casting ballots to take effect.
The Daily CallerOct 27 2020
News
Voters in Wisconsin, Michigan urged to return absentee ballots to drop boxes
Wisconsin Democrats and the Democratic attorney general of Michigan are urging voters to return absentee ballots to election clerks’ offices or drop boxes, warning that the USPS may not be able to deliver ballots by the Election Day deadline.
Driving the news: The Supreme Court rejected an effort by Wisconsin Democrats and civil rights groups to extend the state's deadline for counting
AxiosJun 23 2021
News
States across the country are dropping barriers to voting, widening a stark geographic divide in ballot access
More than half of U.S. states have lowered some barriers to voting since the 2020 election, making permanent practices that helped produce record voter turnout during the coronavirus pandemic — a striking countertrend to the passage of new restrictions in key Republican-controlled states this year.
The newly enacted laws in states from Vermont to California expand access to the voting
Washington Post