kentucky politics: courier journal launching political analysis column
Watts, who at the time was the lone black Republican in Congress,” he recalled. ..…
respecting chanukah and yom kippur: reflections upon the death of
After Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to blunt the impact of that terrible decision, Justice Stevens was one of six Justices who declared the law unconstitutional. . ... The following year, Pittsburgh – under a new Jewish mayor affiliated with the American Jewish..…
lawsuit challenges political meddling in epa public records changes
This decision drew immediate and bipartisan criticism from members of Congress, who are demanding that EPA reconsider its approach. . ..…
hollywood demands impeachment after mueller testimony: 'no more
The Hollywood left called on Democrats in Congress to impeach President Donald Trump after former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress on Wednesday. . ... Send a message to Congress here: https://t.co/dMaThTSPup . — Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) July 24, 2019..…
democratic party has become a continuing criminal enterprise
Ecoscience Population, Resources, Environment, . nder United States Constitution, effective population-control programs could be enacted under the clauses that empower Congress to appropriate funds to provide for the welfare and to regulate commerce, or under the clause of Fourteenth Amendment. ..…
'dangerous to an unprecedented degree': psychiatrists warn
Mental health experts warned in event meant to convince Congress and Tuesday that President Trump incited his followers to violence, with one psychiatrist comparing Trump's rallies to those of Adolf Hitler.. ... The panelists have not made specific recommendations about the political process for..…
presstv-sudan military foils coup attempt, arrests senior officers
The military revealed coup attempt involving General Hashim Abdel Mottalib Ahmed, head of the joint chiefs of staff, and number of high-ranking officers from the armed forces and National Intelligence and Security Service, along with leaders of Islamic Movement and National Congress Party, state..…
there's a reason tennessee is a great state
Jackson added: “Congress is only authorized to levy taxes ‘to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.’ There is no such provision as would authorize Congress to collect together the property of the country, under the name of revenue,..…
afghan women’s rights are non-negotiable – ms. magazine
Congress is dysfunctional, Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation and publisher of Ms., points out, and not for moment would we think of turning over the country to terrorists — and neither would Afghans... ..…
it's past time for the united states to get out of puerto rico's way
In 1917, Jones-Shafroth Act granted U.S to Puerto Ricans, and stopped short of giving them presidential voting rights or Congress. ..…
us house overwhelmingly condemns the bds movement, affirms support for
While Congress voiced support for BDS and its anti- Israel goals, he continued, passage of this resolution with broad support on both sides of the aisle reaffirms that the US- Israel relationship has strong, bipartisan support from members of Congress and American people... ... While..…
jewish fawning over omar has made her more aggressive
Enjoying such support, Omar rewarded the Jewish community by immediately announcing, after the Resolution’s passage, a piece of legislation demanding that Congress vote in favor of BDS against Israel and her Jewish inhabitants. . . . ... She knows the Jews in Congress and the Jews in the..…
mueller: only justice department ban stopped indictment of trump –
WASHINGTON—Only a 20-year-old Justice Department ban on indicting a sitting president for any crimes while in office stopped Special Counsel Robert Mueller from indicting GOP President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, Mueller told Congress on July 24. . ..…
all of the mueller report’s major findings in less than 30 minutes
Robert Mueller testifies before Congress . . PBS NewsHour Logo: Home . . ... On the question of what to do now, Mueller points to Congress. . . . Robert Mueller: . ..…
jews helped inspire america’s refugee program. stephen miller might
(JTA) — In July 1939, eight months after Kristallnacht and seven weeks before Hitler would invade Poland, Congress killed a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United States. . ... After the war, and the Holocaust, Congress passed two bills that let..…
democratic party dilemmas
Consider this sequence of events + Back March of 2019, Nearly 400 members of Congress, from both chambers, signed letter calling on President Trump to escalate Syria, in the name of countering Iran, Russia, and Lebanese Hezbollah.. ... Then, come July, theory looked like it was about to turn..…
trump sues over new york law that would give congress access
In both cases, Judges gave Congress in determining what a legitimate legislative purpose was and stated that as long as Congress can state plausible reason for requesting the information then it has met the requirements under the law.. ..…
israel: landmark supreme court case on deporting activist :crucial
Many others have criticized the order, including 27 European states in joint statement, 17 members of US Congress, the UN secretary general, three UN human rights special rapporteurs, and independent groups and academic associations.. ..…
american public strongly supports statehood for puerto rico
In the century that followed, Congress granted the island certain autonomies, and Puerto Rico currently functions in many ways like a U.S. state. ... This isn’t an unusual response to statehood petitions that Congress has received over the past two centuries. ..…
lawmakers introduce legislation to improve federal-state-local
It also would require Congress to hold hearings to examine the commission’s annual report within 90 days of submission and require the commission to get written responses from agencies on its recommendations. . ... Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said that if the commission is established,..…
robert mueller and various forms of hearing
But the only thing different today was Robert Mueller was sitting there, in person, in what will be the time we see him in role and function, for members of congress to say the same things they've said for months, or years, just vaguely resembling question.. ..…
mueller “was not about finding the truth”
And the reason Democrats have in Congress is because Mueller investigation was dragging on so that Trump was still under investigation for something of. ..…
house overwhelmingly passes multiple pro-israel bills
The consecutive votes are sign that despite anti- Israel and anti-Semitic from fringe lawmakers such as Omar and Tlaib, the majority of Congress continues to back U.S.- Israel and America's military commitment to Jewish state... ..…
after the fire: vulnerable communities respond and rebuild
Congress should consider recent proposals that aim to improve the program to better accommodate vulnerable communities, including one-to-one replacement of subsidized affordable housing after disasters and funding allocations that are accessible to renters and people experiencing homelessness to..…
sleeping through the alarm
The architecture of nuclear arms requires that the population and Congress be eliminated from the decision about going to war. ... Though you would have trouble getting such a repeal of the amendment through Congress, once you did so, I imagine it might be ratified by the population because..…
the juiciest bits from the mueller report [updating]
The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law... ... Sanders told reporters that President, Department of Justice,..…
the case for a new u.s. relationship with afghanistan
Department of Defense (DOD) report to Congress, 20 terrorist or insurgent groups exist in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... In addition, Congress has appropriated $132 billion for reconstruction in Afghanistan as of April 30, 2019. ..…
jews helped inspire america's refugee program. stephen miller might
(JTA) — In July 1939, eight months after Kristallnacht and seven weeks before Hitler would invade Poland, Congress killed a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United States. . ... After the war, and the Holocaust, Congress passed two bills that let 80,000..…
live analysis of mueller’s congressional hearing
Mueller III is testifying before Congress after two years of near-total silence. ..…
learning liberty and the power of principles – the future of freedom
He needed the support of the Abolitionists in Congress to vote his way. ... If the Abolitionists had not been hard at work for decades earlier in the United States; if they had not made the moral argument for a complete end to slavery as an abomination in the eyes of God and man; and if they had not..…
the co-conspirators in theamerican left's takeoverof the democratic
As the definition goes, that's what they call somebody who wins argument with liberal no one has yet pointed out the most glaring fact about Squad of Four women of color running in Congress one of them is white woman. ..…
israel: court delays landmark deportation hearing of activist
Many others have criticized the order, including 27 European states in joint statement, 17 members of US Congress, the UN secretary general, three UN human rights special rapporteurs, and independent groups and academic associations.. ..…
ginsburg: court expansion a bad idea
Congress ca not retaliate by reducing our salary, I think, are as great or greater than any place else in the world... ..…
the missing state department memo on us officials’ possible aiding
There is no legitimate reason for keeping the legal analysis hidden from Congress and from the American public, especially as legislators decide whether and how to maintain any U.S. support for the Saudi’s war effort. ..…
my class, their class, our class
“lobbying Congress to deregulate the finance industry [or] roll back clean air rules”) . . ..…
july 24, 1998: russell eugene weston, jr. and the 1998 united states
On the day of shooting, Officer Chestnut and an unarmed, civilian security aide were assigned to operate the X-ray machine and magnetometer at the Document Door entrance located on the East Front of the Capitol, which was open only to Members of Congress and their staff. ..…
as other south china sea nations defy china, duterte capitulates –
The protest made little headway, with the Congress elected earlier this year firmly on his side. ..…
venezuelan opposition tries to use blackout to rally forces
In Caracas, the opposition-led congress held in main square to try to keep pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. ... At the gathering, the congress approved Venezuela's return to Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, U.S...…
belgian arbitration court condemns antisemitic and homophobic chants
The World Jewish Congress and its Belgian CCOJB had called on Belgian Football Union to reconsider its decision to absolve the supporters.. ..…
spn demands the implementation of n30, 000 minimum wage for all public
We hereby call on the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and United Labour Congress (ULC) to immediately convene a joint meeting to deliberate and agree on a one-day warning general strike and nationwide mass protest in order to warn the federal government,..…
democrats' 1984 loser, walter mondale, urges more refugees
The legislation expanded immigration and ended the low-migration/high-wage policy established by Congress in 2024 amid huge public pressure. ..…
duterte to pursue war on drugs, death penalty despite un reso
Corruption continues and emasculates the courage we need to sustain our recovery initiatives, said Duterte his speech at the start of 18th Congress, July 22.. ..…
trump: constitution gives me ‘the right to do whatever i want as
He relived his 2016 victory, he repeated his smears on Democratic members of Congress he's been attacking for more than week, Constitution allows him the power to do whatever he wants... ..…
cities ban government use of facial recognition
study by American Civil Liberties Union found that the software used by Amazon matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people. ..…
the 'worst budget agreement' in american history
Congress has passed laws to prevent voter rolls from becoming inaccurate and manipulated into stealing elections. ... In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act. Often when people move, they don’t write their local electoral authorities to inform them that they’re no..…
two colonies doomed to 2nd-class status and remote central government
the new top position Hong Kong is filled by Beijing, the people on the island get to elect their legislature and their governor, and they have no elected in US Congress.. ... To make matters worse, Congress, instead of bailing out Puerto Rico, or allowing the island and its cities to..…
notable deaths in 2019
Congress for $1.2 billion in federally guaranteed loans and persuading suppliers, dealers and union workers to make sacrifices. ... Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress/Handout via REUTERS . ..…
doug collins: gop will press mueller on origins of russia
I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress.” . ... Mueller’s investigation swept up a number of Trump associates, including: former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted on bank fraud and financial fraud and pleaded..…
public protector vs south african president court battle looms
President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched court challenge against claims by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane that he lied to Parliament about donation he received from Bosasa's Gavin Watson during campaign to become leader of African National Congress... ..…
for argentina’s polarizing anti-corruption chief, reform is “life
By that measure, Alonso’s work has helped dramatically expand the scope of corruption investigations and has also pushed several important reforms through Congress. . ... The office sent the reform to Congress earlier this year, but election year politics make its fate uncertain – an..…
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