Budget Battles
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‘A Good Day for America’: Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
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Senate Advances $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package
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GOP Infighting Continues as Senate Heads for Aid Vote
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News Alert: House Approves $95 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
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Johnson Rejects a Plan to Save His Speakership
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Johnson Defies Hardliners, Pushes Ahead With Foreign Aid Plan
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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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As Trump Mulls SCOTUS Pick, Here Are The Three Top Contenders
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is poised to pay back many of its general election supporters with a Supreme Court pick in the mold of, as the new vice president recently described him, “the late, great...
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Illegal Immigration: High Court Ruling Likely Won’t Affect Deportation Rate
By Rob GarverIn an election year when enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws has been a topic of constant controversy, advocates of harsher enforcement will surely be cheered by the announcement today that...
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Ginsburg’s Fury Shows Just How Much Trump Has Changed Politics
By Ciro ScottiThere was a time when military officers would rather be water-boarded than talk publicly about politics. And there was a time when sitting justices of the United States Supreme Court would no more...
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It Just Got a Little Easier to Be a Crooked Politician
By Ciro ScottiThe unanimous Supreme Court decision Monday overturning the federal corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell may have far-reaching repercussions for the pay-to-play culture of...
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The Long-term Menace of a Hillary Win: Decades of a Liberal Supreme Court
By Liz PeekAny day now the Supreme Court will rule on President Obama’s go-it-alone executive action protecting millions of undocumented persons against deportation. However it comes down, the decision will...
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Supreme Court Gives Property Owners a Big Win in Wetlands Case
By Rob GarverThe Supreme Court on Tuesday struck a blow against a controversial reading of the Clean Water Act by the Army Corps of Engineers, with a ruling that found the Corps’ “jurisdictional determination”...