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When will Gosar be quitting the House? . . Join Our Newsletter . Original reporting. ... “Fundamentally,” as the prominent Jewish-American journalist Peter Beinart observed on Twitter, “the furor over @IlhanMN’s tweets isn’t about policing bigotry or even anti-Semitism. ..…
Over the years, they’ve built up certain constraints on the use of American force, so that under Obama, for example, before certain bombing runs over Iraq and Syria, White House lawyers would have to evaluate things and say, “Well, if we kill 28 or less civilians with this bomb” — at..…
Chief Justice Earl Warren 1972 Supreme Court case that Mehta relied on heavily, Watkins ruling from 1957, stemmed from John Watkins refusal to give House Committee on Un-American Activities information about individuals. ..…
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