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Kennedy Center Starts to Remove Trump Name to Comply With Court Ruling
Staff have begun to comply with a court ruling, though the Administration may still appeal it.
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Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco
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In the Tenderloin, the “Hondos” have cornered the fentanyl market.
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Golden rules out replacing Platner on ballot amid scandals
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) shut down any rumors that he’s interested in running for Senate as Democratic front-runner Graham Platner faces yet another controversy. “I’m not going to be a candidate for the United States Senate in 2026,” Golden told the Washington Examiner. “I can assure you of that.” A New York Times article published […]
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US strike on alleged drug boat kills two people in eastern Pacific Ocean
Attack brings death toll to at least 207 since administration began targeting people it calls ‘narcoterrorists’The US military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing two men, as the Trump administration wages a months-long campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the US military to at least 207 since the administration began targeting people it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September. Continue reading...
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Climate Change Superstition Still Rules California
At the end of May, the California Air Resources Board extended the “Cap-and-Invest” program through 2045, with changes that allegedly...
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Biden-Released Illegal Alien Tren de Aragua Gang Members Plead Guilty to Double Murder in NYC
Four illegal alien gang members with Tren de Aragua, three of whom were released into the United States by the Biden administration, have pleaded guilty to a double murder in the sanctuary jurisdiction of New York City, New York. The post Biden-Released Illegal Alien Tren de Aragua Gang Members Plead Guilty to Double Murder in NYC appeared first on Breitbart.
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People with cancer or HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
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How the Supreme Court made a controversial ruling even worse: legal experts
In an unsigned shadow-docket order on Tuesday night, June 2 in the case Allen v. Milligan, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a congressional map in Alabama that eliminates a largely Black district. This decision follows the High Court's controversial 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, decided on April 29. And Slate legal analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern believe that the June 2 order makes Callais even worse.Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, was highly critical of the Alabama order — which, she argued, "disregards both democratic values and the rule of law." Lower federal court judges found the Alabama congressional map to be racially discriminatory, but the High Court's right-wing supermajority disagreed."Although the supermajority described its handiwork as a straightforward application of April's decision in Louisiana v. Callais," Lithwick and Stern explain in Slate, "Tuesday's decision dramatically expands the scope of that ruling. It is not a mere aftershock from Callais, but a separate earthquake of the same or perhaps even greater magnitude. Following years of twists and turns in the legal system, this case has become the vehicle by which the Court's conservative supermajority not only applies its own brand-new 'updates' to Section 2 of the storied Voting Rights Act of 1965, but also, sweeps what remains of constitutional protections against discriminatory voting practices out the back door."The legal analysts continue, "It commits these crimes in an unsigned, blithely dismissive order that lacks any substantive reasoning, as it pretends to be honoring some jurisprudential lodestar it celebrates as 'our colorblind Constitution.'"The June 2 order on Alabama, according to Lithwick and Stern, expands "Callais' jury-rigged standards."The Callais ruling inspired plenty of heated debates. While some conservatives and libertarians saw Callais as a victory for fairness, quite a few liberals and progressives countered that it decimated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and gave the green light to racial discrimination. NAACP President Derrick Johnson is among the critics of Callais and the June 2 Supreme Court order that followed it. Appearing on MS NOW, Johnson told host Ana Cabrera, "It seems the Supreme Court is endorsing racially discriminatory behavior by the state of Alabama."Similarly, Lithwick and Stern view the High Court's Alabama order as a victory for "blatantly racist gerrymanders.""In reality, the Alabama map was determined, over many years and many pages of fact-finding, to have been a product of intentional discrimination," the Slate legal analysts write. "For instance, the state admitted that it had tried to keep residents with 'European heritage' — that is, white people — in the same district while aggressively slicing up non-white communities into different districts. Under the new regime, the Roberts Court's conservatives don't care. In fact, Tuesday's order expressly approved of the state's desire to keep those white voters together while divvying up Black voters to prevent the latter group from electing their preferred representative. It is now open season on minority voters in any state that seeks to crowd them out of their voting booths."
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The Supreme Court Just Transformed Its Horrible Voting Rights Ruling Into Something More Calamitous
What the Roberts court has just wreaked goes beyond handing an extra House seat to the GOP in the upcoming election.
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