Supreme Court rejects appeal by D.C. residents
for more representation in Congress in
blow to statehood push and orders lower
court to reconsider block on $3.6B for
Trump's border wall on first day of new term
Posted By: Imright, 10/5/2021 12:48:35 AM
The Supreme Court on Monday advised a lower court to reconsider earlier decisions on the border wall and rejected an appeal from Washington, D.C. residents for voting rights in Congress, delivering a blow to the districts statehood push. The high court on Monday directed lower courts to reconsider their previous rulings that froze funding for construction of a wall at the southern border. Former President Trump, after watching Congress deny his funding requests for the wall, declared an emergency and diverted $3.6 billion from the military budget for the wall, drawing a slew of lawsuits.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), alongside nine other state governors, have decided to take matters into their own hands when it comes to the southern border crisis. The group traveled to Texas to present possible solutions.During a press conference on Wednesday, Gov. Abbott unveiled a 10-point plan to secure the border. Abbott demanded the Biden administration enforce Title 42 health restrictions at the border, which allows Border Patrol agents to deport illegal immigrants in hopes of preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) also took the floor, saying the border sector in Yuma has had more than a 1,000 percent increase in apprehensions compared
WASHINGTON— A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost, with the Justice Department brought to the brink of chaos and top officials there and at the White House threatening to resign.The report describes how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the department, asking leaders to declare the election “corrupt.” His actions led to a near-revolt at department headquarters that receded only after senior officials warned of a mass resignation.At one White House meeting, Trump considered replacing the acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, with the acting assistant attorney general,
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What Facebook ‘whistleblower’ Frances
Haugen really wants: more censorship of
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Haugen really wants: more censorship of
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How convenient that Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen just gave the social network another excuse to crack down on conservative content.In her congressional testimony Tuesday, Haugen, a data scientist, called on Congress to enact more regulations on her former employer to combat misinformation on the platform, saying the company puts profits over public safety. At issue for Haugen is Facebook’s algorithm, which in 2018 the company changed to prioritize high-engagement content, thereby contributing — according to Haugen — to increased divisiveness and polarization among users.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back against climate envoy John Kerry's admission that President Biden had not been aware of the French ire brought on by the AUKUS submarine deal. 'Of course he knew about the French being displeased,' Psaki said, after Monday when Kerry said Biden 'literally had not been aware' of the fallout of the AUKUS submarine deal that caused France to lose a $90billion submarine contract. 'He literally had not been aware of what had transpired,' Kerry, who serves as President Biden's climate envoy, told French broadcaster BFMTV.
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Rising Above Sentimentality
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On Tuesday, I gave a lecture for students at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in a course I believe is unique in the nation. It wasn’t so much an art history lecture as an American history lecture, using art—or rather a lecture about what Americans believed about themselves, for better and for worse, as manifest in works of art. I’d like to discuss two of them here—two of them that are now inconceivable, not just because the practical necessities they show are no longer in play, but because the culture they describe, culture as a spiritual reality, embodying the high aspirations of the human soul, is gone.
Bernie Sanders reportedly refuses to sign
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Moving on Up: LA and Seattle Homeless
Will Be Relocated to Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Apartments 44 replies
Will Be Relocated to Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Apartments 44 replies
Three glistening new buildings in downtown Seattle with 165 studio apartments — originally to be rented at market rates — will instead house the homeless.
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‘F*** Biden’ signs outside Michigan
presidential visit were embarrassing,
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presidential visit were embarrassing,
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HOWELL, MI -- President Joe Biden saw a clear message from the window of his motorcade while driving to an event in Howell on Tuesday.
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White House Weaponizes DOJ Against Parents
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A district court judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order blocking Texas S.B. 8 abortion law on Wednesday, finding in favor of the U.S. Department of Justice, which had sought the order to block the law from going into effect. "A person’s right under the Constitution to choose to obtain an abortion prior to fetal viability is well established. Fully aware that depriving its citizens of this right by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, the State contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme to do just that," U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman, of the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, wrote in a 113-page ruling.