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barr: 'spying did occur' on trump campaign

During testimony before Senate panel, Barr was his obligation to ensure the government did not abuse its surveillance powers and he had set up team to investigate whether this happened with Trump campaign... ..

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ohio's anti-abortion heartbeat bill one step closer to becoming law

Senate session was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, signaling that Republican leaders plan to take up the legislation immediately.. ... Ohio is just one of many Republican-led states that attempting to pass host of abortion restrictions, including heartbeat bills.. ..

the trump era as an occasion for truth telling

Reciting the standard Republican catechism, he vowed not only to balance the budget but to pay off the entire national debt within eight years. ... As a result, the Supremes now wear invisible labels on their black robes, identifying members as either liberal or conservative, aligned, in effect,..

chicago boyz » rhetoric

The verbal communication of the senior Republican leadership is also generally pretty terrible.   ... You…the institutional Republican party…are doing a very poor job at selling and marketing.  ..

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ruling that the superintendent ca not create policy without the governor's permission would not help GOP immediately, except it would give the party de facto control of the office should Republican defeat Evers in the future.. ..

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steve vladeck: why does the supreme court have nine justices? and why

On this, the act's sesquicentennial, it's worth reflecting on how we ended up with nine justices — and why recent proposals that Democrats should expand the size of the court when that party is next in control of both chambers of Congress and White House are dangerously myopic.. ..

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strong and sustainable US- Egypt partnership is vital for both countries and it requires Egypt to make effort to make those reforms, said the letter, signed by Republican and Democrat on Senate Foreign Relations Committee and 15 other senators. .. ..

reckoning with failure in the war on terror

But such stings exploded under Barack Obama, a tactic that Blumenthal writes was “designed to cast his administration as just as tough on terror as any Republican”—the Obama administration “announced an arrest resulting from a terrorism sting every sixty days.” ..

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