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Apr 27 2020
Top Argument
Should Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentence (Incarceration, Probation, and Parole) Be Allowed to Vote?
An estimated 6.1 million people with a felony conviction are barred from voting in elections – a condition known as disenfranchisement. Each state has its own laws on disenfranchisement that range from allowing people with felony convictions to vote from prison to restoring voting rights after completion of some or all of the sentence to banning former felons from voting permanently.
ProCon.org
Jan 14 2021
News
Bitter Senate impeachment trial of Trump could bog down Biden's first days
The second impeachment of President Donald Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives, for inciting last week’s deadly rampage at the Capitol, could set off a bitter Senate fight that entangles the early days of President-elect Joe Biden’s term.
Trump, whose turbulent four-year term in office is due to end next Wednesday, became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice
Reuters
Jan 14 2021
News
Armed 'militias' are illegal. Will authorities finally crack down if they show up at state capitals next week?
As armed supporters of President Donald Trump prepare to converge on state capitals and Washington, D.C., this weekend and Inauguration Day, some legal experts are calling on authorities to enforce longstanding laws outlawing organized groups that act as citizen-run, unauthorized militias.
Federal law, constitutions in every state, and criminal statutes in 29 states outlaw groups that
USA TODAY
Apr 10 2019
News
Bill Barr Confirms: Yes, Spying Occurred During the 2016 Campaign and It's a Big Deal
Testifying in front of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday morning, Attorney General Bill Barr said he believes spying did occur during the 2016 presidential election against Donald Trump's campaign.
"I think spying did occur," Barr said. "I'm not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly," Barr said.
"I think spying on a political
Townhall
Jun 03 2017
News
Al Franken: Time for Hillary Clinton, Democrats to ‘move on’
Sen. Al Franken says it’s time for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to “move on” from her presidential election loss and learn how to better reach voters.
Washington Times
Jul 10 2020
News
Trump’s Tax Returns
On Thursday, “the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited rulings in the battle over efforts to obtain financial records belonging to President Donald Trump. By a vote of 7-2, the justices sent a pair of cases challenging congressional subpoenas for the records back to the lower courts for another look, holding that subpoenas involving the president must be subject to a tougher standard than the
The Flip Side
Apr 30 2017
News
The Arrogance of Blue America
In the wake of the Trumpocalypse, many in the deepest blue cores have turned on those parts of America that supported the president’s election, developing oikophobia—an irrational fear of their fellow citizens.
Daily Beast
Jul 29 2016
News
Donald Trump’s Appeal to Russia Shocks Foreign Policy Experts
There is simply no precedent for this: A presidential candidate publicly appealing to a foreign adversary to intervene in the election on his behalf.
New York Times (News)
Aug 03 2017
News
One day after signing sanctions bill, Trump blames Congress for bad relations with Russia
A day after he grudgingly signed into law new sanctions against Russia, President Trump on Thursday blamed Congress for declining relations with the country that is accused of meddling in last year's presidential election.
USA TODAY
Mar 11 2021
Analysis
With Relief Plan, Biden Takes on a New Role: Crusader for the Poor
President Biden’s new role as a crusader for Americans in poverty is an evolution for a politician who has focused on the working class and his Senate work on the judiciary and foreign relations.
Days before his inauguration, President-elect Biden was eying a $1.3 trillion rescue plan aimed squarely at the middle class he has always championed, but pared down to attract some Republican
New York Times (News)