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May 08 2019
News
Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United © Greg Nash Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which eliminated restrictions on corporate campaign spending.
The amendment would allow Congress and states to put forth limits on campaign contributions, according
The HillAug 16 2019
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Maryland's top court rules that police can't search a person based on marijuana smell alone
Maryland's top court rules that police can't search a person based on marijuana smell alone © Getty Images The Court of Appeals of Maryland, the highest-ranking court in the state, said in a ruling this week — which opened by quoting Bob Dylan singing “the times they are a-changin'" — that police are not justified in searching a person based solely off of the smell of marijuana.
The 7-0
The HillMar 19 2020
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America Needed Coronavirus Tests. The Government Failed.
When cases of the new coronavirus began emerging several weeks ago in California, Washington state and other pockets of the country, U.S. public-health officials worried this might be The Big One, emails and interviews show.
The testing program they rolled out to combat it, though, was a small one.
Limited testing has blinded Americans to the scale of the outbreak so far,
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 21 2017
Perspectives Blog
CNN Media Bias Update
CNN is, without a doubt, our most highly contested source. Based on past data, the current CNN media bias rating is Center, but many users argue that it should be labeled Lean Left, if not altogether Left. (Reminder: We only rate the media bias of sources as they appear on the Web and use those ratings to provide online articles that present diverse perspectives. We don't currently
Lucy PintoDec 12 2018
Headline Roundup
Michael Cohen, Trump's Former Attorney, Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for arranging secret payments to women who claimed to have affairs with Trump, neglecting to report millions of dollars in income, and lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings with Russia. Cohen told the judge that his loyalty to the president caused him to "choose darkness over light" and that
Wall Street Journal (News) Fox News Digital NBC News DigitalOct 18 2019
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Impeachment is too important to leave to Congress — it’s going to take mass mobilization
Watergate is the ur-text for how Americans imagine the defeat of a sitting president, but it shouldn’t be how to think about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Watergate was a formative political experience for many of the older Democrats who run the House of Representatives these days. And the semi-fictionalized version of the scandal portrayed on film in All the President’s Men is an
VoxMay 11 2021
News
Democrats’ election overhaul is expected to clear a major Senate hurdle, but the road ahead is unclear.
A key Senate committee is expected to vote as soon as Tuesday to advance Democrats’ sweeping elections overhaul, stamping its approval on a landmark voting rights expansion as Washington tries to blunt ballot restrictions by Republican-controlled statehouses.
The debate and anticipated vote in the Senate Rules Committee are a significant milestone for liberals who have made the bill, H.
New York Times (News)May 16 2019
News
Trade War With China
“China said on Monday it would impose higher tariffs on most U.S. imports on a revised $60 billion target list, hitting back at a tariff hike by Washington on $200 billion of Chinese goods in a further escalation of a bitter trade war.” (Reuters)
The left criticizes Trump’s tactics and is pessimistic about a favorable resolution.
“To make the case for his trade war, and to
The Flip SideDec 27 2019
News
Eddie Gallagher's Navy SEAL platoon members blast him in leaked videos
Navy SEAL platoon members painted a dark picture of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, their leader who was acquitted of war crimes and had a minor charge cleared by President Trump, in leaked investigatory interview videos and text messages obtained by the New York Times.
Why it matters: The interviews, given by members of the platoon members that served under Gallagher, break the
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