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Nov 29 2022
News
Senate passes bill to protect same-sex marriage
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriage, with 12 Republicans joining Democrats to send the legislation to the House.
Why it matters: The Senate, with its 60-vote threshold, was the main obstacle to the bill’s passage, but it passed with a 61-36 vote. The House is expected to easily pass it before sending it to President Biden’s desk
AxiosJun 27 2020
News
Which statues deserve to fall?
Black Lives Matter protests that started as a response to the police killing of George Floyd have sparked a much larger conversation about racism in America. One part of the discussion has focused on historical monuments that dot the landscape across the country and whether they should remain in place or be removed.
Recent weeks have seen the revival of an ongoing debate over symbols of
Yahoo! The 360Oct 05 2022
News
Trump elevates Mar-a-Lago raid legal battle to Supreme Court
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has elevated its legal battle to the Supreme Court, requesting that Justice Clarence Thomas, who has jurisdiction over the 11th Circuit, vacate the stay by the court that allowed the Justice Department to continue its review of classified documents seized during the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon
Fox News DigitalNov 03 2022
News
Healey, Diehl decline to release tax returns in race for Mass. governor
Both major candidates running for governor in Massachusetts have refused to share copies of their latest tax returns.
The disclosure isn't required by law, but many politicians provide the documents when running for state or federal offices, especially U.S. president.
Maura Healey, the Democratic nominee for governor, released several years of tax returns when she was first
WBURDec 07 2022
News
Supreme Court leans toward limiting judicial scrutiny of U.S. elections
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday appeared to ready to limit judicial power to overrule voting policies crafted by state politicians but might not go as far as Republican North Carolina lawmakers want in a case the liberal justices painted as a threat to American democratic norms.
The court heard arguments in a case the state lawmakers have used to try to
ReutersNov 02 2022
News
Jan. 6 committee blames Dropbox screwup for Trump lawyer email leak
An apparent mishap with Dropbox led to media outlets obtaining access to a batch of emails that revealed former President Donald Trump's attorneys viewed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as key to overturning the 2020 election.
Trump lawyer John Eastman begrudgingly shared a Dropbox link with the Jan. 6 committee on Oct. 28 in compliance with a court order demanding he turn over a
Washington ExaminerJun 05 2020
Opinion
Confederate Statues Defaced, America Disgraced
On Sunday evening, demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd defaced and toppled a statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn, which had stood in a public park in Birmingham, Alabama, since being installed in 2013 by a charity.
The destruction of this Confederate monument is but one in a sequence of such vandalisms that have swept the nation’s southern states in the past week
The American SpectatorDec 28 2022
News
‘The Real Minimum Wage Is Zero’: McDonald’s Restaurant Uses Automation For Pickups And Orders
McDonald’s revealed a test restaurant near Fort Worth, Texas, earlier this month in which automation technology replaces many positions formerly held by employees, drawing mixed reactions from conservatives and liberals.
The fast food behemoth announced that customers can use kiosks and a mobile app to grab their orders from a conveyor belt rather than interacting with customer-facing
The Daily WireOct 27 2022
News
Justice Kagan temporarily blocks Jan. 6 committee subpoena seeking phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena seeking the phone records of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward.
The move by Kagan, a liberal justice who handles emergency applications that originate in Arizona, means the Supreme Court as a whole will decide how to proceed. The House committee has until Friday to
NBC News DigitalOct 05 2022
Opinion
There Are Two Americas Now: One With a B.A. and One Without
The Republican Party has become crucially dependent on a segment of white voters suffering what analysts call a “mortality penalty.”
This penalty encompasses not only disproportionately high levels of so-called deaths of despair — suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol abuse — but also across-the-board increases in several categories of disease, injury and emotional disorder.
“Red
Thomas B. Edsall