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ICE Warns Republicans’ Racist Immigration Bill Is a Total Bust
1 天前 · Stallone, Voight, and Gibson have each come out in support of Trump in recent years. Stallone even called him the “second George Washington,” while Voight proclaimed him to be the “greatest president since Lincoln.” And Gibson, who happens to have a long history of antisemitism and racism, said Kamala Harris had the “IQ of a fence post.” The announcement had mixed reactions.
No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate
2 天之前 · The charge of foot-dragging has become a meme. Elie Honig, writing in New York magazine, was particularly cocksure: “The debate about whether Garland took too long to charge the Trump cases—or to appoint a Special Counsel to get the job done—is over.Exhibit A: there’s not going to be a federal trial before the 2024 election.
Democrats Are Making Their First Big Mistake of the Next Trump Era
4 天之前 · On Thursday, the United States Senate advanced the Laken Riley Act for debate, which has already passed the House of Representatives, with unanimous Republican and significant Democratic support.While Republicans and their Democratic collaborators have pushed the bill as a “common sense” measure to deport supposedly dangerous migrants, the measure is better thought of as a stalking horse ...
America’s Coming Public Health Crisis | The New Republic
2 天之前 · As Caitlin Rivers points out in her new book, Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks, it’s an uncanny parallel to the lapses and missteps of, for instance, the early days of the Covid pandemic, when health officials, fearful of stoking panic, repeated that the risk to the public was low. Being forthright about the risks of …
Partisanship Has Worked for Democrats Before. It Can Again.
3 天之前 · But in the space between bipartisanship and hyper partisanship, there is a wide-ranging world of responsible partisanship within which congressional Democrats can operate as became clear in the recent struggle over government funding.. What are some of the partisan strategies Democrats they can deploy in the year ahead? Most important will be for congressional Democrats to remain disciplined ...
The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
3 天之前 · Nothing about the Laken Riley Act, the anti-immigration law that passed the House last week and is now being taken up in the Senate, would have prevented the murder of the young Georgia nursing student for which it was named.But the appropriation of her death by anti-immigration hardliners felt inevitable: As soon as law enforcement said last February that an undocumented immigrant was their ...
Republicans Have No Clue How They’re Going to Pass Trump’s …
2025年1月6日 · Whatever ends up being the final approach, it’s going to divide Republicans in one or both of the chambers. Historically, the one-bill strategy hasn’t worked well for either party, as Democrats who backed the “Build Back Better” bill under Biden remember. That bill was supposed to pass in 2021, but ended up being weakened, only passing in the form of the scaled-down Inflation Reduction ...
Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs | The New Republic
2025年1月6日 · But that favorable response quickly reversed after Trump stated on Truth Social that the Post story “incorrectly states that my tariff policy will be pared back. That is wrong.” For good measure, Trump labelled the story, by the Post ’s excellent Jeff Stein, “Fake News.” This well-worn phrase is, typically, Trump’s “tell” that a news story that irritates him is quite accurate ...
Trump Launches Another Panicked Bid to Get Out of Hush-Money …
2025年1月6日 · Donald Trump is (unsurprisingly) trying to get out of his sentencing hearing for the 34 felony counts in his hush-money case. In a 17-page filing Monday, Trump’s lawyers announced that the president-elect would seek an automatic stay on his sentencing, challenging New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s rejection of presidential immunity claims.