The ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court that former President Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president again because he engaged in an insurrection has cast a spotlight on the basis for the decision: the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which includes a clause disqualifying people who violated their oaths of office from holding government positions in […]
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To Win on Abortion, Republicans Must Reckon With What ‘Pro-Life’ Means Today
Electoral results since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision should tell a lot of people in the Republican Party something they absolutely do not want to hear: Even rank-and-file G.O.P. voters are not as pro-life as we might have thought when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. That trend was […]
Read MoreFederal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun?
For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he stormed out […]
Read MoreAt Least 2 Million Children Have Lost Medicaid Insurance This Year
At least two million low-income children have lost health insurance since the end of a federal policy that guaranteed coverage through Medicaid earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new analyses by researchers at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and KFF, a health policy research organization. The figures, which are likely a significant […]
Read MoreTexas Lawmakers Vote to Let Local Police Arrest Migrants
In a direct challenge to federal power over immigration, the Texas House on Thursday approved the creation of a state-level crime for entering the country from Mexico between ports of entry, allowing local police agencies to arrest and jail unauthorized migrants or order them back to Mexico. The legislation had been called for by Gov. […]
Read MoreFor Many in Wyoming, a Biden Plan to Protect Land Is Beyond Unpopular
Of all of the efforts by the Biden administration to protect environmentally fragile lands, few have generated as much vitriol as a proposal that would block oil and gas drilling on 1.6 million acres of high desert sagebrush steppe in Wyoming. One lawmaker in the Republican-led Wyoming Legislature called President Biden’s plan an attempt at […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Delays Efforts to Redraw Louisiana Voting Map
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower-court ruling that delays an effort to redraw Louisiana’s congressional map, prolonging a bitter clash over the representation of Black voters in the state. The order temporarily leaves in place a Republican-drawn map that a federal judge had said diluted the power of Black voters while an appeal […]
Read MoreA ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums
In 2009, as the banking business was on the verge of being reshaped by new regulations in the wake of the great financial crisis, the private equity giant Apollo Global Management found a way to make money off the retirement savings of millions of everyday Americans. Through Athene, an insurer it helped create and later […]
Read MoreU.S. Will Allow Nearly 500,000 Venezuelan Migrants to Work Legally
The Biden administration said late Wednesday that it would allow hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans already in the United States to live and work legally in the country for 18 months. The decision followed intense advocacy by top New York Democrats, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and party leaders in Congress. It will […]
Read MoreN.Y. Lawmakers Sue to Block Migrants From Floyd Bennett Field
A dozen New York lawmakers — including four Democrats and a Republican congresswoman — raced to court on Tuesday to try to block Mayor Eric Adams from opening an emergency shelter for as many as 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. In a suit filed in State Supreme Court on Staten Island, the […]
Read MoreN.Y. Lawmakers Sue to Block Migrants From Floyd Bennett Field
A dozen New York lawmakers — including four Democrats and a Republican congresswoman — raced to court on Tuesday to try to block Mayor Eric Adams from opening an emergency shelter for as many as 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. In a suit filed in State Supreme Court on Staten Island, the […]
Read MoreBorder Crisis Comes to Blue Cities After Migrants Are Bused North
Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts, a liberal Democrat, has declared a state of emergency, activated the National Guard and started petitioning the White House for help. The migrants on state-funded buses from Texas are a fraction of the total number arriving in northern cities. Texas brags that its “Operation Lone Star” has sent more than […]
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