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On Monday, former first lady Michelle Obama responded to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of separating immigrant parents from their children at the border, citing former First Lady Laura Bush's condemnation, saying: "Sometimes truth transcends party." Obama is now the fourth first lady to speak out against the policy, including the current first lady, Melania Trump.
Most observers expected the Supreme Court's major partisan gerrymandering cases this year to finally provide guidance on how to stop the worst abuses in drawing legislative lines. The Court heard two cases, one from Wisconsin and the other from Maryland , that represented egregious gerrymanders, or the practice of politicians drawing oddly-shaped district lines to keep themselves in power.
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. less In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, ... more In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018.
Many people who lack moral and intellectual anchors believe that everyone else, deep down, is like them, though not nearly as smart. In their mythic world view, every value is negotiable and every decision is animated by reflexive self-interest, not principled reasoning.
This Aug. 26, 2017 photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas as seen from the International Space Station. "The collective damage done by Atlantic hurricanes in 2017 was well more than half of the entire budget of our Department of Defense," said MIT's Kerry Emanuel.
There's an interesting sentence in a fund-raising letter I just received from the Claremont Institute . The Claremont, California-based think tank, which publishes the excellent Claremont Review of Books quarterly, has as their overarching theme "Recovering the American Idea: The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life."
House Speaker Michael Madigan listens during a legislative session on Aug. 28, 2017, at the State Capitol. A former federal prosecutor will conduct a review of operations of the Illinois House after sexual harassment allegations lodged against aides and allies of Madigan.
Indiana's two senators are praising President Donald Trump efforts to recover the remains of American soldiers killed in the Korean War. Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly and Republican Sen. Todd Young issued a joint letter Tuesday that welcomes the effort.
An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents. Human rights attorney Jennifer Harbury said she received the tape from a whistleblower and told ProPublica it was recorded in the last week.
All four former first ladies have joined the current one, Melania Trump, in an unusual united political front expressing horror at children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border. Mrs Obama, a Democrat, wrote those words as she re-tweeted Mrs Bush, a Republican, who first spoke out in an opinion piece Sunday in The Washington Post.
The FBI is determined to not repeat any of the mistakes identified in a harshly critical watchdog report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, Director Chris Wray said Monday at a congressional hearing at which he repeatedly sought to distance himself from his predecessor. Wray told lawmakers that the FBI accepted the findings of the inspector general's report and has begun making changes, including about how it handles especially sensitive investigations.
The rules, which are up for a City Council vote on Wednesday, require city pet shops and the breeders and distributors who sell animals to them to have a business license and a professional animal handler's permit. They also cannot have recent USDA citations for violating the Animal Welfare Act.
The Trump administration defended its hardline immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday as furor grew over the separation of immigrant parents and children, including video of youngsters sitting in concrete-floored cages. Democrats blasted such treatment as "barbaric," while a few of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans also voiced concern as the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives moved toward voting later this week on two pieces of immigration-related legislation.
An unapologetic President Donald Trump has defended his administration's border-protection policies in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. Calling for tough action against illegal immigration, Mr Trump declared the US "will not be a migrant camp" on his watch.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, finding such laws violate the constitutional right to vote in a ruling with national implications. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson is the latest setback for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has championed such laws and led President Donald Trump's now-defunct voter fraud commission.
Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, talks about the "broken" immigration system on Monday, June 18, 2018, at a news conference at Fresno Yosemite International Airport. He was headed home from a visit Monday to the California-Mexico border.
Nevada congressional representatives as well as candidates running for key offices weighed in on the issue of children of undocumented immigrants being separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" crackdown on immigration. "Senator Heller doesn't support separating children from their families, and he believes that this issue highlights just how broken our immigration system is and why Congress must act to fix it."
THE BRAD BLOG IS STILL FREE FOR ALL! HELP US KEEP IT THAT WAY IN OUR 15TH YEAR! Just a glimpse of what happened over the past week via the eyes of the world's political cartoonists, as one of them lost his job this week for being too critical of Donald J. Trump... GOPers turning on Pruitt; Antarctica's ice melting 3x times faster; DNC bans fossil fuel donations; Flooding doubled over last 30 yrs; PLUS: Energy Dept: E-cars cheapest to drive... Trump's G7 debacle over climate; CA electric co. faulted for deadly fires; EPA overhauls cost-benefit analyses; PLUS : Growing movement to ban single-use plastics... Also: SCOTUS approves radical OH vote purge scheme; L.A. won't rule out hacking in 'print error' that left 118k off rolls; Callers ring in... 'PDiddie' features several recent toons by award-winning staff cartoonist Rob Rogers which were, remarkably enough, spiked by the paper's new RW ... (more)
The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, 85 yeas to 10 nays Monday, and in the legislation included language that would ban from conducting business in the United States. The Senate measure reverses an agreement by the Trump administration to allow ZTE to resume buying component parts from U.S. companies.
Charlotte and Dave Wilner set up a fundraiser on Facebook on Saturday to help reunite families affected by the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" approach toward undocumented immigrants, USA Today reported Monday . At time of writing, over $3.45 million has been raised in just three days, with more than 84,000 contributors.