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New Jersey’s Kean Says He Was Treated for Depression
New Jersey Representative Tom Kean Jr. revealed that he has been treated for depression as he returned to the US House for the first time in nearly four months.
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Mamdani-backed New York candidate was arrested multiple times at protests
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A socialist activist running for the New York State Assembly was previously arrested at least twice at protests. After embedding himself in New York City’s rowdy activist scene, Illapa Sairitupac is running in November for the Assembly’s 65th District, which covers Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, and other major areas. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed […]
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New Jersey lawmaker expected to return to Capitol on Tuesday after long absence
New Jersey Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R) is expected to return to the Capitol on Tuesday after months of an unexplained absence. Kean’s staffers say he is going to give a floor speech in which he will explain his absence for more than 100 missed votes. His team tied his absence to an undisclosed medical condition. …
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Trump has new plan to end birthright citizenship after Kavanaugh’s dissent
The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment makes any child born in the US is a citizen. Trump isn't giving up
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New Jersey Republican Tom Kean reveals depression diagnosis after returning from lengthy absence
Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) said on Tuesday that his lengthy and previously unexplained absence from the House was due to being treated for depression, publicly elaborating on the for the first time on the medical condition that had kept him away from Washington. Kean made the disclosure in a floor speech when he returned to the…
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Watch live: New Jersey lawmaker returns, explains absence in House floor speech
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) will return to the Capitol on Tuesday for House votes after months away due to an undisclosed medical condition. Kean, who was endorsed by President Trump in his reelection bid earlier this month, will address the speculation about his absence from the House floor. The remarks come just days before…
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Raw Story
Five sharpest barbs in new Supreme Court ruling as the justices turn on each other
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that states can bar transgender girls from female school sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho — and the justices spent much of the opinion going at one another.Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, holding that neither Title IX nor the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause stops states from limiting girls' teams to students who are female at birth. The decision reversed lower-court wins for Becky Pepper-Jackson, the 15-year-old West Virginia student at the center of the case, and Boise State athlete Lindsay Hecox, whose cases the justices heard in January. Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed the Title IX claim failed but dissented on the rest, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.Here are the five sharpest lines the justices aimed at each other.Sotomayor opened fire on the majority's reasoning, writing that it ruled "in an opinion unencumbered by fact or law." She also accused the majority of "moving the goalposts set by precedent," and said its equal protection analysis rested on "contorted logic."Justice Clarence Thomas answered the dissent's premise head-on in a concurrence, writing: "A man does not have a legal right to compete against women just because he believes that he is a woman."Kavanaugh used a section of his opinion answering the dissent of his opinion to fire back at Sotomayor, writing that the court does "not accept the dissent's assumed monopoly on understanding the effects on individuals involved in disputes over transgender athletes." Of her word choices, he added flatly: "that rhetoric is misdirected."Justice Neil Gorsuch, meanwhile, took his own shot in a footnote that opened "Contra JUSTICE JACKSON," rejecting her reading of the court's sex-stereotyping cases.The clash lands a year after the same conservative majority used similar reasoning to let Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors stand, a decision Sotomayor leans on throughout her dissent to argue the court applied the wrong test. It also caps a term of sharply divided decisions, including another 6-3 ruling a day earlier that drew its own Sotomayor dissent.
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'Vile man': Justice Clarence Thomas bashed for 'ugliest' remarks in major new ruling
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was taken to task on Tuesday over his non-legalistic claims in a ruling that allows states to bar transgender female athletes from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams.In the 6-3 decision for the conservative majority Justice Brett Kavanaugh took the lead and wrote that schools "may determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports based on biological sex.""Separate sports teams for biological males and biological females are reasonable," he added.For his part Thomas went a step further, demonstrating his own personal bias in his concurrence.“Because ‘gender dysphoria’ is a mutable mental state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny— race, sex, or national origin,” he wrote before adding, “Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns ‘biological men’ and ‘boys who identify as girls.’ Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are.”He later added, “To use language to obscure reality—to show ‘indifference regarding the truth’— is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens /as equal[s].’”According to Balls & Strikes Editor in Chief Jay Willis, Thomas' comments are reprehensible.The legal analyst wrote on Bluesky, “Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man.”“Thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie concurred.He elaborated, “… also this is a great example of how Clarence Thomas's self-satisfaction cannot hide the fact that he is not that bright. ‘man and woman,’ ‘boy and girl’ are social terms that categorize gender presentation, not descriptions of ‘biological’ sex. nor are they binary! this guy has spent the last 30 years of his life huffing his own farts and being surrounded by people who tell him that his farts smell like chanel #5 and it shows.”
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Dave Portnoy says he’d run for NYC mayor against Mamdani — and he’s dead serious
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he would run for mayor of New York City and criticized the socialist movements taking over the country. “I would love to run [against Mamdani]. If I was going to run, it would be here [New York]. Can I win here? I have no idea,” Portnoy said on Fox […]
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