John Leland wrote in a resolution for the General Committee of Virginia Baptists meeting in Richmond, Virginia, 1789: “Resolved, that slavery is a violent deprivation of rights of nature and inconsistent with a republican government, and therefore, recommend it to our brethren to make use of every..…
Texas and other Republican-led states eventually did sue and won a partial victory in a federal court in Texas. ... It recently passed the Democrat-run House, but will not become law under Trump and the Republican Senate. . ..…
In Iraq and Syria, the Republican Guard does the balancing. . Politicians actually create obstacles to maintain fragmentation. ..…
In May of 1860, House of Representatives passed Morrill Tariff Bill, the twelfth of seventeen planks in the platform of Republican Party — and priority for the soon-to-be-elected new president.. ..…
Ohio’s Republican Governor Mike DeWine has proposed backing a so-called “Red Flag” law and expanded background checks after the mass shooting in Dayton took 9 lives. ... The Republican National Committee also joined the suit calling the law a “naked political attack against the..…
Sixteen Democrats and only one Republican opposed the bill. The bill is not a law but is rather intended to express the will of congress, which is perhaps the only good thing to say about it. . ..…
He won the Republican primary with 56.5% of the vote. . We also could not find any public polls in which DeSantis was as low as 3%, though he was indeed polling poorly before Trump expressed support for him in December 2017 and before the President issued a 'full' endorsement in June 2018. .....…
.” — Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Aug. 4. . ... Trump threatened to veto the bill if it passed the Senate as well, but the legislation hasn’t been taken up in the Republican-controlled Senate. ..…
Hopefully beginning with President Trump, every Republican and in the land will start calling out the racism of American Left, whether it comes from Democratic presidential candidates or the media or activist groups like She the People and oh so many more.. ..…
Ohio Republican blames mass shootings on gay marriage, trans people, and drag queens . . . ..…
Chief among Republican governor's proposals, he will ask Ohio General Assembly to approve a red flag law that would allow courts to order the removal of firearms from individuals deemed threat to themselves or others. On Tuesday, DeWine's proposals were greeted with optimism by gun control..…
simulation developed by Center for American Progress demonstrates how separate proposals implemented today, combination or isolation, would reduce racial disparities in average wealth, by 2060. ..…
In April, Wilmer “Vinegar Bend” Mizell, a former Republican congressman and Ford administration Commerce Department official, told the joke to an audience in Texas. ... FDR described the attitude of the Republican presidential administrations that preceded his in the following way:..…
But despite the endorsement by Republican in red state, and having spent $1 in the primary contest with $4.3 million still on hand, Reeve's position does not make him the heir apparent.. ... Standing apart from the two other Republican gubernatorial candidates is Bill Waller Jr.,..…
That law was updated last year by Republican-led Congress to fix the system that failed in the case of Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting in 2017, when U.S. ..…
According to 2018 study, Republican retirees were more moderate and less supportive of Trump than their colleagues. The partisan lean of the retirees districts was 15 percentage points more Republican-leaning than the national average, compared with 24 percentage points more for..…
Colorado Party leadership called on national and party authorities through statement to stand behind the unity of National Republican Association and be vigilant for any attempt to alter the order and peace of Republic.. ..…
'Most Republican legislators will do nothing because many of their constituents favor gun rights and do not want to see significant restrictions,' Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Darrell West told Xinhua. ..…
And majority, 77 percent, say students should have the option to take comparative religion class and 58 percent should be able to study Bible, according to new survey. ..…
California voters who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Jerry Griffin, Republican from Los Angeles County Michelle Bolotin, independent from Los Angeles County Michael Sienkiewicz, Republican from San Francisco County and James B. ..…
The dialogue came to end, and Republican party went back on everything outlined by Obama, and lifted the waiver on Title III of Helms-Burton Act on May 2nd 2019. ..…
Gavin Newsom answers questions at Capitol news conference Sacramento, Calif in file photograph The Republican National Committee and Judicial Watch also sued California over the law.. ..…
It will end with the death of the Republican party as we know it.” . Greenberg, who is Jewish, draws on a wealth of experience. ... The Republican party’s support for a 1994 anti-immigration ballot initiative there presaged its dramatic decline in the state. ..…
Sixteen Democrats and only one Republican opposed the bill. The bill is not a law but is rather intended to express the will of congress, which is perhaps the only good thing to say about it. . ..…
Having learned from Afghan experience that it's necessary to come up with the money before coming up with plan, Prince has been discussing Venezuela with Republican donors the so-called bankers and oligarchs that ran the country before the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 forced many of them to go..…
From RTÉ Radio 1's Marian Finucane show, a discussion on Donald Trump's inauguration with Christopher Nixon-Cox (grandson of former US president Richard Nixon), Alice Butler Short (Virginia Women for Trump), Simon Carswell (The Irish Times) and John Steinberger (chair of the Charleston County..…
The following is excerpt from Steven Greenhouse's book, Beaten Down, Worked Up The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, out today. It's part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis.. ..…
But by Tuesday, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had remained silent about the manifesto and the suspect's specific targeting of Hispanics in Texas. . ..…
It was a bipartisan effort — passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by Republican President George W. ..…
The fate of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is also in doubt, with four Republican U.S. ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, need not wait for a call from the White House to get such a group up..…
Some of the organizations that will be used to oversee the spending are International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, . ..…
Bobby Jindal, a Republican. . . . 'We’ve made a tremendous difference. ..…
California Republican Party Files Lawsuit Against New Presidential Primary Ballot Access Law State Supreme Court, Using State Constitution... On August, California Republican Party filed in State Supreme Court, Patterson Padilla. ..…
His Republican groupies, meanwhile, are complicit. . The grotesquely swollen place of the presidency in governance (now that governance has become, for Congress, merely a spectator sport) and society has been made possible by journalism that is mesmerized by, and easily manipulated by, presidents,..…
Republican National Committee and California Republican Party File Lawsuit Against New California Ballot Access Restriction... On August, National Republican Committee, California Republican Party, and three Republican voters filed lawsuit against California law..…
ASHEVILLE - City Council is set to act against a Republican-imposed overhaul of the election system, .. ..…
Speaking to reporters on Monday at National Conference of State Legislatures, Lee would not commit to supporting such Tennessee, where Republican-controlled this session declined to take up the measure... ..…
SACRAMENTO Trump and Republican Party sued California on Tuesday over law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in the state's primary.. ..…