16 states sue over trump's national emergency declaration

Experts seem to think the courts are likely to defer to the president on the question of whether there is an emergency, NPR's Nina Totenberg has reported, and the legal fight is likely to boil down to whether the president has the right under existing law to 'reprogram' money Congress has..

bill to make d.c. a state has 155 co-sponsors

If that somehow had been applied to eliminate failed states, Delaware, Nebraska, Oregon, and Nevada would have been eliminated. . That apportionment act also set the uniform election date for Congress (which was not uniformly applied until 1958), and the requirement that paper ballots be..

gop, democrats split governor’s races in key states

The governor’s races have extra emphasis in 28 states where the winners will serve four-year terms with the potential power to approve or reject district boundaries drawn for Congress or state legislatures. . The Democratic Governors Association had focused on nine swing states — Colorado,..

governors' races feature fight for party control in states

The governor's races have extra emphasis in 28 states where the winners will serve four-year terms with the potential power to approve or reject district boundaries drawn for Congress or state legislatures. . The Democratic Governors Association had focused on nine swing states — Colorado, Florida,..

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despite general praise, mixed reaction for doma ruling review

Those states are Colorado, Wisconsin and Nevada. . Stephen Peters, president of the LGBT military group known as American Military Partner Association, called on Congress to take action, saying he’s “saddened and frustrated” that the Justice Department has decided it cannot afford to..

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white house: need congress to afford certain benefits to gay couples

For the time being, that would impact couples in Colorado, Wisconsin and Nevada. . But for anything further, Congress would need to pass legislation. The administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation along these lines to address the issue, the White House official said. . ..

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did obama flout the law by delaying obamacare?

THE BACKGROUND The appellate court ruled on lawsuit arising over White House's refusal to complete the certification of Yucca Mountain Nevada as nuclear-waste site.  Yucca Mountain has been football ever since Congress and Bush administration chose the in 2002 to store nuclear waste.  ...

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