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Oct 28 2019
News
Former White House official won't testify, lawyer says
A top aide to former White House national security adviser John Bolton will not testify before Congress on Monday as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump, his lawyer has told Democratic investigators.
Charles Cooper, the attorney for former Bolton aide Charles Kupperman, said his client will not testify until a court rules on a lawsuit surrounding his appearance
The HillMar 03 2023
Headline Roundup
NYC Settles Mistreatment Suit Against NYPD For George Floyd Protests
New York City is set to pay $21,500 to 320 people involved in protests that took place in the Bronx in the summer of 2020 in response to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.
Details: A class-action lawsuit argued New York City Police mistreated demonstrators by using a police tactic known as “kettling.” The lawsuit states that officers confined protesters
ABC News (Online) New York Post (News) ReutersJan 23 2014
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New Virginia Attorney General Says He Won't Defend State?s Gay Marriage Ban
Following a seismic political shift in Virginia's top elected offices, the new attorney general has concluded that the states' ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and he will no longer defend it in federal lawsuits.
The BlazeSep 15 2019
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Virginia judge rules Confederate war monuments must remain
A Virginia state judge has ruled the city of Charlottesville cannot move two Civil War statues that were at the center of the riots in 2017.
After Judge Richard Moore issued his ruling Wednesday, plaintiffs that argued in defense of the statues are requesting $604,000 to cover attorney fees, plus $500 for each plaintiff.
The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously in 2017
Washington ExaminerFeb 19 2021
Analysis
Oversight Republicans warn DHS of impending border health crisis, blame ‘reckless’ Biden policies
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are sounding the alarm to the Biden administration about an impending health crisis at the southern border -- warning that "reckless" policies and rhetoric from President Biden are fueling it.
"The Biden administration’s policies limiting immigration enforcement and weakening border security, coupled with its proposal to grant amnesty to
Fox News DigitalMar 30 2021
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‘If you can keep it’: Where next for a strained democracy
Growing political polarization, economic inequality, executive power run rampant, and populism: These are the four tests to determine whether a democracy is under threat. For the first time, the U.S. meets all four. First in a series.
After the extraordinary events of the past five months, American democracy may be under stress like never before in the modern era.
The great
Christian Science MonitorMay 29 2020
Analysis
Are the COVID-19 Lockdowns Constitutional?
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she's fighting a war. And she's using emergency powers in that fight.
But governors are quickly finding that even emergency powers might have their limits.
"Tyranny has a new name and it's called a pandemic," says Robert Muise, a constitutional lawyer with the conservative American Freedom Law Center, and a co-plaintiff in a recent lawsuit
ReasonJun 11 2016
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Donald Trump’s Demagoguery Challenges Journalistic Norms
CNN’s Jake Tapper has been one of Donald Trump’s most persistent TV interviewers this election cycle, winning recent praise for following up 23 times as the presumptive Republican nominee defended his racist attack on a judge presiding over fraud lawsuits involving Trump University.
HuffPostNov 03 2020
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Judge rules Gavin Newsom order on mail-in balloting unconstitutional and limits his executive order powers
Republican state lawmakers in California celebrated a ruling by a judge calling one of Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive orders over the pandemic unconstitutional and limiting his executive powers.
Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman ordered Newsom to stop issuing unconstitutional executive orders after finding one of his orders was "an unconstitutional exercise of legislative
The BlazeAug 24 2020
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New York AG sues Trump Organization in probe of financial dealings
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) announced Monday that her office had filed a lawsuit to compel the Trump Organization to comply with subpoenas related to an investigation into whether President Trump and his company improperly inflated the value of its assets on financial statements.
The state of play: The investigation was launched after the president's former personal
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