Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win in Immunity Case
Welcome to July! It’s only the first of the month, but we’ve already got fireworks going off in the nation’s capital, where the Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3 ruling , decided along...
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Why Big Banks Could Still Pay a Big Price for the Housing Crisis
By Rob GarverIn a piece of moderately good news for cities where the bursting of the housing bubble of the last decade devastated local real estate values and the municipal tax base, the Supreme Court has opened...
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The Threatened Gorsuch Filibuster Will Backfire on Democrats for a Long Time
By Liz PeekThe Donnybrook over the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court makes it clear: the Extreme Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. That’s a tragedy for Democrats, and for the country.
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McConnell Prepared to Invoke ‘Nuclear Option’ to Confirm Gorsuch
By Eric PianinSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed on Sunday that – one way or another – the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by the end of...
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The Gorsuch Vote Will Show the Democrats Can’t Govern, Either
Senate Democrats had come under severe pressure from progressive activist groups to find a reason to block Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, part of a strategy of “resistance” to the Trump...
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Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Travel Ban
By Matt Zapotosky, The Washington PostA federal appeals court has maintained the freeze on President Trump’s controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries can...
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Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks
By Eric PianinThe administration on Sunday attempted to put a positive face on a weekend of embarrassing judicial setbacks that at least temporarily put President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban on...
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Trump May Be the First Test Case for His Own Supreme Court Nominee
By Rob GarverIt cannot have been an easy weekend for Judge Neil Gorsuch. At a time that ought to be one of the high points of his life, one wonders if the Colorado jurist tapped by President Trump to fill the...
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Republicans Exhale With Trump’s Supreme Court Choice of Gorsuch
“Think of the Supreme Court,” the Republican Party repeatedly urged skeptics of Donald Trump during the general election in 2016. Conservatives who found themselves lost at sea in a cycle dominated...
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Trump’s SCOTUS Nomination: One Way or the Other, This Ends Badly
By Rob GarverNo matter how it turns out, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court will end with one of the two major parties claiming that they have been grossly mistreated, and insisting that...
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Justice Antonin Scalia Dead at 79
By Robert Barnes, The Washington PostSupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the intellectual cornerstone of the court’s modern conservative wing, whose elegant and acidic opinions inspired a movement of legal thinkers and ignited liberal...
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The California Gas Leak Ends, but It’s a Rough Week for Environmentalists
By Eric PianinIn a gloomy week for environmentalists, a beleaguered southern California utility company provided a ray of light on Thursday when it temporarily capped a massive, runaway natural gas leak that has...
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Here’s Why the Republican Populist Revolt Will Backfire
Barack Obama has a lot to do after he leaves office. Outgoing presidents traditionally start planning presidential libraries -- Obama chose the South Side of Chicago as the location for his archives...
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Conservative U.S. justices prepared to deliver blow to unions
By Lawrence Hurley, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday voiced support for a legal challenge that could erode organized labor's clout by depriving public-employee unions of millions...
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SCOTUS to Take on Unions, Affirmative Action and the Death Penalty
By Rob GarverWhen the Supreme Court closed out its term last week, it did so with flair. In the space of a few days, it ruled on King v. Burwell , in a decision that may have saved the Affordable Care Act and a...