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Nov 14 2019
News
Arrest warrant issued for state Rep. Poncho Nevárez after he was caught on tape dropping envelope with cocaine
Authorities issued a warrant Thursday for the arrest of state Rep. Poncho Nevárez, an Eagle Pass Democrat, on felony drug possession charges. A state special investigator claims in the warrant, which was obtained by The Texas Tribune, that Nevárez was caught on surveillance footage in September dropping an envelope with cocaine as he was leaving the Austin airport.
A magistrate judge in
The Texas Tribune
Apr 12 2015
News
Unions fight to preserve Obama’s immigration actions, their members
Two of the country’s most powerful and politically influential labor unions are backing President Obama in the recent court challenge to his 2014 executive action on illegal immigration, saying they support the president’s effort because "undocumented workers" need more workplace protection and their participation helps the U.S. economy.
The AFL-CIO and the National Education
Fox News Digital
Jun 09 2015
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Republican senator criticizes Obamacare on the grounds that Obamacare subsidies are awesome
The Supreme Court will rule later this month on whether Obamacare's insurance subsidies are legal. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) weighed in on the case on Twitter Monday:
Vox
Sep 08 2014
News
Scalia’s utter moral failure: How he destroys any claim to a superior system of justice
He doesn't think executing an innocent man matters. How on earth can such a depraved human be on our Supreme Court?
Salon
Dec 02 2013
News
Obamacare attacks religion, but hurts women: Column
The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear two important cases about whether women and men who own businesses are protected by civil rights laws against religious discrimination. The Obama Administration says it can ignore religious freedom laws when regulating businesses and their owners because it believes earning money is inconsistent with exercising religion.
Reacting to the news
USA TODAY
May 26 2020
Analysis
Sen. Ron Wyden Wants To Stop the Government From Spying on Your Internet Searches
"We've reached kind of an inflection point in the privacy debate," says Senator Ron Wyden (D–Ore.). With Americans spending more time online than ever before during the COVID-19 pandemic, he worries that government surveillance of the internet matters more now.
Before the Senate's May 14 vote to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act, formerly known as the PATRIOT Act, Wyden fought a losing
Reason
Jun 28 2012
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RNC Statement on ObamaCare
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has issued a statement regarding the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare today.
“Todays Supreme Court decision sets the stakes for the November election. Now, the only way to save the country from ObamaCares budget-busting government takeover of health care is to elect a new president, said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
Townhall
Sep 29 2020
Analysis
The Strangest Campaign in History?
Joe Biden may be running for president — and then again, maybe he’s not.
Many argue that 2020 will be the most important election in history, given the wide divergence between the Trump administration’s view and those of Democratic Party’s hard Left, which seems to have captured the Joe Biden candidacy.
Perhaps. But most will at least agree that the 2020 campaign is certainly the
Victor Hanson
Jan 20 2020
Analysis
Trump's Senate trial defense: Abuse of power is not impeachable
(CNN)President Donald Trump's legal team will go into his Senate trial on Tuesday arguing that he should never have been impeached because his conduct over Ukraine does not amount to a criminal offense.
First details of the President's counter-argument are emerging from a document the White House sent to Capitol Hill on Saturday night and in television interviews of one of his new legal
CNN Digital
Mar 25 2016
News
OPINION: The slow-motion implosion of the Republican Party
Trapped on all sides.
That's where the Republican Party finds itself today, both in its nominating battle and in its implacable "not even a hearing" stance on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland.
Guest Writer - Left