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Apr 08 2015
News
Obama motion to immediately restart amnesty rejected by federal judge
President Obama's new deportation amnesty will remain halted, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday night in an order that also delivered a judicial spanking to the president's lawyers for misleading the court.
Washington Times
Jun 25 2017
News
The American Presidency in Paralysis
Is the next vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court sooner or later?
Liberals despair. Trump’s “progressive” critics, long champions of a strong presidency, notably Barack Obama’s robust executive power, are abruptly born-again skeptics. What’s to worry? Trump’s Neil Gorsuch remains a constitutionalist who would challenge an imperial presidency. But Democrats don’t want to challenge this
The American Spectator
Jun 25 2017
News
Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who so often determines the outcome of the most controversial Supreme Court cases, is himself the center of brewing speculation.
Will he stay or will he go? The rumors have swirled for months and the 80-year-old justice has done nothing either personally or though intermediaries to set the record straight on whether he will step down.
CNN Digital
Dec 11 2019
News
Harvey Weinstein accusers reach tentative $25 million settlement
Dozens of Harvey Weinstein's accusers have reached a tentative $25 million payout deal with the movie mogul and his studio board as part of a larger $47 million settlement, the New York Times reports.
The big picture: The overall settlement — meant to close out the Weinstein Company's obligations as it works through bankruptcy proceedings — would reportedly "bring to an end" to nearly
Axios
Sep 24 2020
Analysis
How Mitch McConnell is changing the Democratic Party
What Senate Democrats are learning from Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell was elected to the US Senate in 1985. He was named Senate minority leader in 2007, and Senate majority leader in 2015. It was, for McConnell, the culmination of decades of planning, labor, and, when necessary, self-abasement. “The ultimate goal of many of my colleagues was to one day sit at the desk in the Oval
Ezra Klein
Jul 05 2015
News
Gay marriage ruling leaves debate about religious liberty wide open
The Supreme Court made a number of important decisions this term but none more transformative than legalizing gay marriage. The decision however does not settle the issue of gay rights and religious liberty.
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 20 2024
Headline Roundup
Would Texas’ New Immigration Law Address the Border Crisis?
Would Texas’ SB 4 immigration law help alleviate the border crisis or encourage racial profiling?
For Context: The law would grant state judges the power to order deportations. The Biden administration argues the law interferes with federal immigration law, while Texas Republicans argue the law is needed to make up for a purported deficiency in federal immigration enforcement. The law
The Nation
Wall Street Journal (News)
National Review (Opinion)
Dec 10 2019
News
New York Lost A Landmark Climate Fraud Case Against Exxon
A New York judge ruled Tuesday that ExxonMobil did not make misleading statements in public disclosures about the company’s climate change risks, delivering a major win to the oil giant in the highly anticipated climate fraud case.
New York Supreme Court Judge Barry Ostrager found that the New York attorney general “failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence” that the oil
BuzzFeed News
Dec 10 2019
News
Exxon Wins New York Climate Change Fraud Case
A judge has handed Exxon Mobil a victory in only the second climate change lawsuit to reach trial in the United States. The decision was a blow for the New York Attorney General's Office, which brought the case.
Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York State Supreme Court said that the attorney general failed to prove that the oil giant broke the law.
"Nothing in this opinion is
NPR (Online News)
Sep 02 2018
News
Democrats Blast Move to Withhold Some Kavanaugh Records
Senate Democrats criticized the withholding of documents ahead of Tuesday’s start of confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, even as a top Republican predicted he would be approved by a healthy margin.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a tweet that the decision to hold back more than 100,000 pages of documents from
Bloomberg