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Opinion | Religious Crusaders at the Supreme Court’s Gates – The New York Times
Conservative justices appear eager to take on a subject at the heart of the country’s culture wars. The Supreme Court’s decision in last term’s big religion case, on the constitutionality of a Latin cross that stands 40 feet tall on public land in Bladensburg, Md., left both sides in the religion …
Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race | The New Yorker
Thomas has moved from black nationalism to the right. But his beliefs about racism, and our ability to solve it, remain the same. Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving Justice on the Supreme Court. When he joined the bench, on October 19, 1991, the Soviet Union was a country, Hillary Clinton …
Travel boom: TSA says its 9 busiest days were this summer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says the nine busiest days in its history occurred this summer as travelers jammed airports. TSA acting deputy administrator Patricia Cogswell said Thursday that the agency screened 262 million people and 164 million checked bags from just before Memorial Day until the day …
Senate Democrats’ unprecedented threat against the Supreme Court – The Washington Post
In 2017, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-.Y.) accused President Trump of showing “a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn’t always bend to his wishes” after Trump criticized a federal judge who ruled against his administration. Senate Democrats, by contrast, have launched an unprecedented attempt to actually bend the …
Conservative Judges Are Brawling Over Originalism | The New Republic
The union between the federal judiciary’s true believers in the primacy of our founding documents is fraying. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a notable ruling on police shootings this week, ruling in favor of a man whose encounter with law enforcement nearly a decade ago left him with …
A Proposal to Change How Democrats Think About the Supreme Court | The New Yorker
It’s remarkable how much time the Democratic Presidential candidates have spent explicating the details of plans that have no chance of becoming law. There is, for example, no possibility at all that the Senate will pass any kind of Medicare for All plan in 2021. But the next President will …
Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for tumor on pancreas – Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone radiation treatment since Aug. 5 for a malignant tumor on her pancreas, the Supreme Court said Friday, marking her second bout with cancer in the last year and her fourth overall. The 86-year-old justice “tolerated treatment well. The tumor was treated definitively …
CBO Sees Federal Budget Deficit Climbing As Spending Grows : NPR
Congressional budget forecasters are predicting more red ink — nearly $1 trillion this year — as a result of the bipartisan spending agreement lawmakers struck this summer. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now says the federal deficit will hit $960 billion in fiscal 2019 and average $1.2 trillion in each of the …
These airports have the worst TSA wait times – The Washington Post
Huge lines at airport security can be a nuisance or a disaster, depending on what time you show up for your flight. To know what you’re up against, Upgraded Points conducted a study that looked at data on Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wait times at America’s 25 busiest airports in 2018 to …
Will the Supreme Court expand protections for LGBT workers? – Coming this Autumn
The answer turns on whether Title VII protects gay and transgender employees from discrimination OVER HALF a century ago, Congress struck a blow for gender equality when it passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of that law, which made it illegal for employers to discriminate “because of …
Robert Mueller’s investigation cost nearly $32M – UPI.com
Aug. 2 (UPI) — The two-year investigation by special counsel Robert Muellerinto Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election cost nearly $32 million, a final expenditure report released Friday indicates. The Justice Department report shows the special counsel team spent $6.56 million from Oct. 1 to May 31, when the probe concluded. The first …