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Before last week, these were the mindless slogans of an infantile left, seen on signs at rallies to abolish ICE, the agency that arrests and deports criminal aliens who have no right to be in our country. By last week, however, "Abolish ICE!" was no longer the exclusive slogan of the unhinged left.
It's as predictable as the sunrise; a certainty like death and taxes - Democrats vehemently oppose President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Keep in mind, no nominee has been named yet, and won't be until Monday, but it doesn't matter; who it is will not matter, they freak out and oppose them.
Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Shortly after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old democratic socialist, pulled off a surprise left-flank victory over incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley in a New York congressional primary last week, pictures of her childhood home began appearing on social media.
In Washington County and throughout Maine, we are faced with notable challenges and great potential. The beauty of our state - from its rocky shoreline to its woods, lakes and streams - places us in a unique position to retain generations of Maine families looking to call our state home.
I urge Sen. Susan Collins to join with Democrats and block any Supreme Court nomination until the Russian investigation is complete. He can nominate a Supreme Court justice who is likely to decide on issues relating to the Mueller investigation and its impact on him.
The impulse behind the latest "big" progressive idea of creating a federal job guarantee is entirely valid. Studies show that those without jobs are much more likely to be dissatisfied with their lives, to become addicted to alcohol or drugs and to be abusive within their families than even those working at low wages they find inadequate.
"Just to state this," wrote Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, "Justice Kennedy's son gave a billion dollar loan to Trump when no one would give him a dime, and Justice Kennedy has been ruling in favor of the Trump Administration position for 2 years as the Court decides 5-4 case after 5-4 case." This was crazy conspiracy theory completely ungrounded in facts.
The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court is about to bring a 60-year battle to a head. For decades the country has witnessed a fight between those who believe the Constitution speaks for itself and others who believe it says whatever the judges think it says, or even should say.
Liberal Democrats were wrong to portray President Trump as apathetic to children being taken from parents as they illegally attempted to cross our southern borders.
He was duly elected in November 2016 through the electoral process. Eighteen months after he took the oath of office, we really believe it is time for the president's detractors to retire their therapy dogs, get over the fact that their preferred candidate lost and come to terms with the fact that he is our commander in chief.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring, administers an oath of office to Neil Gorsuch - the first Supreme Court justice nominated by President Donald Trump. Along with a second high court nominee, Trump is moving at record pace to fill the federal appeals courts with young conservative judges .
We've heard the saber rattling from big tech critics who want to break up Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google. They claim they are helping the little guy and that they want more competition.
House Financial Services Committee ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, during a hearing Wednesday, June 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Financial Services Committee ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, during a hearing Wednesday, June 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
"Ah, yes, you speak of the recently released survey in which Pew quizzed 5,035 adult Americans to determine their ability to distinguish between factual information and opinion statements in the news." "That's right.
"The Trump administration plans to detain migrant families together in custody rather than release them, according to a new court filing that suggests such detentions could last longer than the 20 days envisioned by a court settlement. 'The government will not separate families but detain families together during the pendency of immigration proceedings when they are apprehended at or between ports of entry,' Justice Department lawyers wrote in a legal notice to a federal judge in California who has been overseeing long-running litigation about the detention of undocumented immigrants."
Delaying Donald Trump's nominee now is as cynical a ploy as it was when Mitch McConnell obstructed Barrack Obama's: Our view On Anthony Kennedy's Supreme Court seat, two wrongs don't make a right Delaying Donald Trump's nominee now is as cynical a ploy as it was when Mitch McConnell obstructed Barrack Obama's: Our view Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2ILEnxC Delaying Donald Trump's nominee now is as cynical a ploy as it was when Mitch McConnell obstructed Barrack Obama's: Our view Within minutes of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement last week, top Senate Democrats declared that a vote on his replacement shouldn't occur until 2019.
Republicans are right to call for tough measures to deter illegal immigration, which means building the wall, ending the catch-and-release policy and challenging the harboring strategy of sanctuary cities. But where Republicans are wrong is in calling for strict caps and even reductions in legal immigration visas.
A group of around 20 protesters occupy PM Malcolm Turnbull's electoral office, demanding the end to the policy of offshore detention of asylum seekers, in Sydney, October 14, 2015 [Reuters] , President Donald Trump praised Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for the Australian policy of refusing entry to asylum seekers who arrive by boat. It is official Australian policy to detain future arrivals through systematically cruel treatment in offshore detention centres.