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Jan 27 2022
Headline Roundup
Who Will Replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer?
With longtime Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reportedly set to retire this year, who will President Joe Biden choose to replace him — and how?
Reports across the spectrum have highlighted two names: federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger. Jackson, 51, was recently confirmed to D.C.'s federal
SCOTUSblog Vox Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Oct 27 2015
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Boehner 'Cleans The Barn,' Debt Ceiling Raised Until March 2017
Outgoing Speaker John Boehner promised to deal with debt ceiling before entering retirement, and he appears to be doing so with this tentative budget agreement with the White House. According to The New York Times, a 144-page “discussion draft” was posted a little before midnight last night, which raises the debt ceiling until March of 2017, slightly increases spending, and provides cuts to
TownhallMay 08 2020
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Sally Yates learned of Flynn targeting from Obama as Comey kept her in the dark, declassified documents show
Newly released documents indicate former FBI Director James Comey kept his superior at the Justice Department in the dark about the bureau's investigation into retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that she first learned the FBI possessed and was investigating recordings of Flynn’s late 2016 conversations
Washington ExaminerJun 24 2020
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No-excuse fight revived in Arkansas, 35 years after its top court ruled in favor
The legal crusade to make mail voting easier this year has finally arrived in Arkansas, where some of the nation's toughest ballot restrictions haven't been challenged until now because the coronavirus pandemic arrived after the primaries.
Two prominent Democrats in the deeply red state filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Arkansas election law flatly violates a 35-year-old state
The FulcrumMar 09 2020
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Lawmakers self-quarantine after contact with coronavirus patients
Retiring Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the new White House chief of staff, became on Monday the latest conservative lawmaker to self-quarantine after coming into contact with someone at CPAC 2020 who tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The big picture: He joins Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in entering
AxiosJan 29 2018
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Illinois Ordered A Doctor To Tell Women Where To Get Abortions. Now He Wants The Whole State To Suffer
James Gallant, a retired emergency physician who serves pro bono as the medical director of the Hope Life Center in Sterling, Illinois, a crisis pregnancy center, doesn’t offer abortions, and doesn’t want to tell women who visit his facility that they can get them elsewhere. Doing so — which is required under a 2016 state law — would violate Gallant’s religious freedom, he says. Earlier this
HuffPostJun 25 2021
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Trump set to reemerge on the trail with revenge on his mind
Former President Donald Trump is bronzed, rested and politically bloodthirsty.
Having spent months in semi-retirement after his election loss in 2020, Trump is set this weekend to kick off a series of political events. Aides and confidants say the goal is to boost his standing in anticipation of a possible future run and to scratch that never-soothed itch he has for publicity. But it’s
PoliticoFeb 09 2014
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House GOP closing in on debt limit package
House Republicans are moving toward introducing a bill that would lift the debt limit until the first quarter of 2015, while patching the Medicare reimbursement rate for nine months and reversing recent changes to some military retirement benefits, according to multiple sources familiar with internal deliberations. The bill could come up for a vote as soon
PoliticoFeb 01 2021
Analysis
Devout Catholic? The Media vs. Biden’s Real Record
President Biden is a “devout Catholic,” the liberal media say. But there’s consternation among some U.S. Catholic leaders about how Biden’s policies directly contradict Church teachings. As columnist Cal Thomas asked elsewhere on this site, “How can one be devout about one’s faith and not comport with Scripture and the teachings of the Catholic Church?”
First, the media sales pitch. You
NewsBustersJul 27 2020
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Where does the Black Lives Matter movement go from here?
This Saturday marks two months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked a nationwide movement toward racial justice.
In some ways, the U.S. is still in the grip of the response to Floyd’s death, which may have spawned the largest social movement in American history. There are still daily protests in many cities across the country. Bold statements calling
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