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May 30 2016
News
Merrick Garland Champions Work In Public Service During Commencement Address
Despite the ongoing senatorial struggle over his confirmation, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland spent his Memorial Day weekend urging the next generation to take up public service, calling such a decision among “the most rewarding” the judge has had.
HuffPostSep 10 2019
News
Poll: Most Americans Want To See Congress Pass Gun Restrictions
There is widespread support among Americans — Democrats, Republicans and gun owners alike — for a number of initiatives to curb gun violence they would like to see Congress pass, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.
Laws that would screen for the types of people who could use a gun are broadly popular, but when it comes to bans on certain types of weapons and ammunition, a
NPR (Online News)Feb 26 2020
News
Trump Administration Can Withhold Grants From ‘Sanctuary Cities’: Court
The Justice Department is justified in withholding millions of dollars in grants from cities and states for refusing to enforce the Trump Administration’s immigration laws, according to a Wednesday ruling by a federal appeals court. The order specifically targets “sanctuary cities,” which are known to protect immigrants who have not committed crimes from deportation. The ruling overturns a
Daily BeastMay 10 2019
News
Chelsea Manning: Wikileaks source jailed for contempt is freed
Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison, despite refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks.
Manning, 31, was held for 62 days after a Virginia judge ordered her taken into custody in March.
However, she will have to appear again before a grand jury on 16 May.
Manning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including
BBC NewsNov 07 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Obama’s harmful ‘gifts’ to the nation and the Democrats
Barack Obama is a gifted politician. But a president is judged by the gifts he leaves behind. Following his fourth national election as party leader, Democrats are taking stock of what they have received.
Michael GersonNov 06 2019
Opinion
Keep government hands off free speech
On the relationship between freedom, societal norms and law, no one has yet improved upon Judge Learned Hand’s dictum: “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.”
Nevertheless, people keep suggesting that government should use its coercive powers to control free expression in the name of social peace.
The
Charles LaneFeb 02 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders were the real winners in Iowa
By the numbers, Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses. The technical winner among the Democrats is unclear but immaterial. Judging the victor by differences of tenths of a percentage point is a ridiculous enterprise when what’s being measured are delegate numbers, not tens of thousands of individual votes.
Ruth MarcusNov 04 2019
News
A federal appeals court just demolished Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal investigation
Less than two weeks ago, President Trump’s personal attorney William Consovoy stood before a panel of federal appellate judges and told them that the president is immune from criminal investigation even if Trump shoots someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
It didn’t take long for that panel to reject this extraordinary argument. On Monday, an unanimous panel of the United States Court
VoxMar 17 2016
News
Merrick Garland has ‘very liberal view of gun rights’
President Obama tried to tap a moderate to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but he ended up picking a fight with powerful Second Amendment groups that say Judge Merrick Garland has shown antipathy toward gun rights.
Washington TimesJul 22 2016
News
Donald Trump Drags GOP Into Very Ugly Territory
It’s tough judging Donald Trump on a historical continuum. We’ve never before seen an unsmiling nominee hectoring and fear-mongering for more than an hour. William Jennings Bryan came close as the Democratic nominee in 1896, though at least his Cross of Gold speech was eloquent.
Daily Beast