Two-thirds of voters support tougher gun control after FL shooting massacre
From CNBC News: American voters by a 2-to-1 margin favor tougher gun control rules following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school last week, according to a…
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A Flurry of Courts Have Ruled on Election Maps. Here’s What They’ve Said
From today’s New York Times: Judges in a number of states have recently thrown out election maps, saying that they have been gerrymandered to the point of being unconstitutional, effectively…
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Why the Trump-led GOP Continues to be the Party of Massive Budget Deficits
From today’s LA Times: The Trump administration proposed a spending plan on Monday that projects deficits as far as the eye can see, giving up the longtime Republican goal of…
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When Wall Street Writes Its Own Rules, It’s An Age of Unprecedented Corruption
From today’s New York Times: On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, then the United States…
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#VotingRights Update: Group Targets GOP States to Attack Gerrymandering
From today’s New York Times: A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama intends to pour millions of dollars into an eclectic array of elections in a dozen states,…
Justice Department Dismisses Corruption Case Against Menendez
From today’s New York Times: The Department of Justice on Wednesday dismissed all the remaining charges against Senator Robert Menendez, a decision that underscores how a 2016 Supreme Court ruling…
Millions of ex-cons lost the right to vote. Now they might get it back.
From today’s NBC News: Dean Turner never voted before he went to prison. But his right to cast a ballot was the last barrier to rebuilding his life once he…
#RussiaGate: AG Sessions Interviewed in Mueller’s Russia Investigation
Breaking news from today’s New York Times: Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week by the special counsel’s office as part of the investigation into Russia’s…
In Montana, Governor Bullock Signs Order to Enforce Net Neutrality
From the New York Times: Most efforts underway to restore so-called net neutralityface big obstacles and would take many months, if not years, to succeed. But in Montana, the governor…
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Thorny Logistics Of A Federal Shutdown and How It Affects Agency Employees
From National Public Radio: Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will either be sent home or have been told to not show up to work at all on Monday, as…