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MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow devoted the first half of her show on Monday to examine the pattern of Republicans seeking to suppress the vote of minorities in America, focusing on GOP efforts to deny the vote to Native Americans living on reservations in North Dakota. North Dakota Republicans successfully changed the law to deny voting rights to anyone without a street address - based on the knowledge that reservations rely upon Post Office boxes.
He was only saying what everyone already understood by then: Not only that Republicans were already trying to make Obama's life miserable, but that if they took the House in that fall's elections , then destroying his chances at winning a second term would be their primary goal. That, and stopping Obama from passing any meaningful legislation; as John Boehner said about Obama's agenda right before the election that made him speaker of the House, "We're going to do everything-and I mean everything we can do-to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can."
James Wolfe, a former senior staffer on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, pleaded guilty to a charge that he lied to the FBI about contacts with reporters, the Justice Department said on Monday. Wolfe pleaded guilty in a federal court in Washington, D.C., to one count of lying, the Department said, adding that two remaining counts of making false statements would be dismissed when Wolfe is sentenced.
In the days leading up to the trial accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian American applicants, supporters of the university worried that the group behind the litigation, Students for Fair Admissions , would turn the case into a broader attack on affirmative action and race-based admissions policies. It's one thing to say the use of race in admissions is negatively affecting a minority group to the benefit of white students, but a completely different thing to say that the advantage is going to other minority groups.
Just 100 years ago in the United States, eugenics was the law. From 1907 to 1931, Indiana, California, and 28 other states carried out the forced sterilization of more than 64,000 people who were deemed "unfit"-including the "intellectually disabled," immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the physically disabled, and the mentally ill.
Since self-exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul this month and vanished, his case has sparked international intrigue and outrage and put leaders of his homeland on the defensive. May 2018: Khashoggi meets Hatice Cengiz, a 36-year-old Turkish Ph.D. student, at a conference in Istanbul and she soon becomes his fiance.
Washington: Democratic senator and potential 2020 US presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has released a genetic analysis, with an accompanying video , aimed at proving her Native American heritage and rebutting a frequent attack from President Donald Trump that she lied about her ancestry. The critique of Warren has been a frequent one since 2012, when the Boston Herald reported that Harvard Law School had listed Warren's Native American ancestry in touting its diversity.
A person in a hazmat suit appears to be handling a letter that is enclosed in a plastic bag in Bangor, Maine, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. A hazardous materials team was called Monday to investigate a suspicious letter sent to the home of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, officials said.
Affirmative Action, Then and Now : Is Harvard treating Asian American applicants unfairly? "The future of affirmative action is not on trial," the lead attorney for the plaintiffs declared during opening arguments at what will be a three-week trial over the university's admissions practices. But are affirmative action policies really not at stake? The case has exposed these deep divisions within the Asian American community.
With less than a month left before the election, Democratic candidate for the 14th Congressional District Lauren Underwood will be finishing the last leg of her campaign in a new office in downtown Woodstock, 129 E. Van Buren St. Campaign spokeswoman Andra Belknap said Underwood's team moved from its original office on Calhoun Street in Woodstock because it needed a larger space. Underwood - who has campaigned for affordable health care, among other reforms - challenges incumbent Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Plano.
Spanberger, a former CIA officer, has closed in on Brat, turning the once-safe Republican seat into a real race. Recent polling shows the race is neck-and-neck but Spanberger has a monetary advantage, outraising Brat nearly three-to-one in the third quarter.
As you'll remember, Hillary Clinton recently endorsed incivility on the part of Democrats. And, as you'll remember, she not long ago said there was a "very significant difference" between Bill's sexual misconduct and Trump's .
When Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney leaves office after 12 years next January, she'll turn over her seat to one of two very different candidates: Patti Adair, the conservative Republican who chairs the Deschutes County Republican Party and served as a delegate for Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention, and James Cook, a moderate Democrat who chairs Redmond's planning commission and has Baney's endorsement. Adair, 67, moved from California to rural Deschutes County in 2014 after growing up in Eastern Oregon and vacationing in Central Oregon every year.
Vinson & Elkins has strengthened its environmental and white-collar crime practice, hiring Ronald Tenpas, a former assistant attorney general for the environment and natural resources division of the U.S. Department of Justice, as a partner in Washington, D.C. Tenpas, who focuses his practice on government enforcement matters, joined Vinson & Elkins on Monday from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he had practiced since 2009 after spending 12 years with the DOJ. He served as AAG from 2007 through 2009, and earlier served as a U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Illinois.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released the results of a DNA analysis that she said indicated she has some Native American heritage, a rebuttal to President Donald Trump, who has long mocked her ancestral claims and repeatedly referred to her as "Pocahontas."
On the heels of President Trump sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this morning to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after talking with the Saudi King who denied any knowledge of the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi government is prepared to admit that Khashoggi was murdered. The Saudis are preparing a report that will acknowledge the death of Jamal Khashoggi - the Saudi journalist who went missing two weeks ago - was the result of an interrogation that went wrong, two sources say.
Two congresswomen will face off in the sole Arizona Senate debate Monday evening, capping a contest that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Martha McSally is a former fighter pilot who represented a Tucson district that voted for Hillary Clinton and was a Trump critic during 2016.
A hazardous materials team was called Monday to investigate a suspicious letter sent to the home of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, officials said. Police and fire vehicles were parked outside her home, and several people in hazmat suits were seen entering the home.
Why are we still hearing from Hillary Clinton? She hasn't held any political position of note in half a decade, and in 2016, she was pummeled by Donald Trump. Why do I say "pummeled"? Well, it's true that DT didn't win by a landslide; but when you've been in politics for years, and a guy known for having a gold toilet swoops in out of nowhere and bests you, you're doing some things really, really, really, really wrong.