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The U.S. deficit hit $984 billion in 2019, soaring during Trump era – The Washington Post
Spending increases, tax cuts and political apathy fueled the surge. The U.S. government’s budget deficit ballooned to nearly $1 trillion in 2019, the Treasury Department announced Friday, as the United States’ fiscal imbalance widened for a fourth consecutive year despite a sustained run of economic growth. The deficit grew $205 …
PreCheck, Global Entry or Clear? How to Get Through Airport Lines Faster – The New York Times
Spend less time in line and more time, well, anywhere other than the airport, with these apps and government programs. I love flying, but I hate airports. Specifically, I hate the endless lines. Lines to check in, lines for security, lines for passport control, and then at the other end, …
Lifesaving Coast Guard Scientist Reflects on Government Service – Bloomberg
Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government. The following is adapted from a new chapter for the paperback edition of “The Fifth Risk,” which will be published by Norton in November. I found Art Allen standing on the lawn just outside his …
Gorsuch Plays Coy In LGBTQ Employment Case : NPR
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy loomed large over arguments at the court Tuesday in a set of cases testing whether employers are free to fire gay and transgender employees. Kennedy, a Reagan appointee, was the author of every major gay-rights decision for more than two decades. His …
Supreme Court Considers Whether L.G.B.T. Workers Are Protected by the Civil Rights Act – The New York Times
WASHINGTON — In a pair of exceptionally hard-fought arguments on Tuesday, the Supreme Court considered a host of flash points in the culture wars — including sports, dress codes, religious objections to same-sex couples and, especially, bathrooms — in weighing whether a landmark 1964 civil rights law bars employment discrimination …
Supreme Court Should Let Insanity Evolve in Kahler v. Kansas – Bloomberg
Our legal understanding of mental illness shouldn’t be restricted to a 19th-century precedent. The Supreme Court is back in session today. And in this mad political season, it somehow seems fitting that one of the first cases it will consider is whether it is constitutional for a state to punish a person …
Supreme Court term to begin with blockbuster question: Is it legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender? – The Washington Post
Aimee Stephens never saw how her colleagues at work would react to her gender transition. The owner of the funeral home where she worked fired her first. Gerald Bostock claims everything was fine in his job as a social worker in Georgia until he joined a gay softball league. Then …
Three LGBTQ Cases Are Set to Put the Supreme Court’s Conservative Principles on Trial
Three explosive cases are about to test whether conservative Supreme Court justices are seen to rule according to their professed legal principles—or their politics. On October 8, just day two of the new term, the Court will hear arguments questioning if the federal law that prohibits workplace discrimination “because of…sex”—Title …
Justices’ DC sniper case examines teen murderers’ sentences
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. But the justices’ eventual ruling probably will mean less for him than for a dozen other inmates …
This is the Kavanaugh mess we feared – The Washington Post
In September 2018, I warned about the abbreviated FBI investigation into allegations that Brett M. Kavanaugh engaged in sexually aggressive behavior: “If Democrats retake one or both houses in November, they will be able to investigate, subpoena witnesses and conduct their own inquiry. The result will be a cloud over the Supreme …