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fate of manafort lies in hands of anti-bush judge appointed by obama

In 2017, she ruled in favor of the government and dismissed both cases that were brought in front of her following a data breach in which 21 million federal government employees and prospective employees had their personal information exposed. . ..

philippine ‘democracy’

The resulting Philippine government structure, as promulgated in the 1935 Constitution and retained in the existing Constitution, is substantially a mirror image of the US federal government structure. ..

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a power more supreme than any judge

During Roosevelt’s first term, the Supreme Court struck down many of his policies as violations of freedom of contract (on the logic, for example, that a minimum wage law would prevent workers from “agreeing” to be paid below that by bosses) and the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, under which the..

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senators seek to change immigration law to curb child marriages

The move follows a report by the Senate Homeland Security Committee that found the federal government approved requests from thousands of men to bring child brides or fiancées into the country over the past decade, in part because the Immigration and Nationality Act doesn't set minimum age..

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a trump pardon won't keep paul manafort out of jail — new york can

But should Manafort be able to get away with stealing from the people of New York simply because the federal government has already extracted its own pound of tax flesh? ... Thereafter, the federal government charged and tried the same four officers for civil rights crimes..

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The federal government shutdown shutters the drug czar's office, Trump again mischaracterizes the nature of border drug smuggling, New Jersey's highest court lends a hand to drug court graduates seeking expungement, and more. . closed down in the shutdown . . ... Federal..

elected left, governing right

The Latin American left, against the backdrop of Right turn, was relieved onlookers expected Moreno to continue the progressive advances his predecessor, Rafael Correa, had made during his office under Citizens Revolution, with perhaps softer edge. ..

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