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'It doesn't have a clue': Elena Kagan blasts conservative majority over 'frightening' decision on pollution
U S Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan rebuked the majority who stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of some of its regulatory powers The 6-3 ruling in West Virginia v Environmental Protection Agency limited the federal government's ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, which Kagan lamented in her dissent had weakened “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time ”"The subject matter of the regulation here makes the Court’s intervention...
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'Embarrassing mistake' to blame for Dunkin' Donuts franchise's apparent whites-only invitation
A Dunkin' Donuts franchise in Rhode Island is scrambling to apologize after posting an invitation offering free coffee to white customers The Facebook post invited customers to a celebration at the Cranston location, but company officials say the post mistakenly excluded customers from other races, reported WJAR-TV "It's an unfortunate mistake, it's an embarrassing mistake,” said Kelsey Chester, a field marketing manager for Dunkin' Donuts "Dunkin' as a company obviously is very excited for...
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Biden calls for 'exception' in Senate filibuster rules to pass abortion rights law
President Joe Biden on Thursday called for an "exception" to the Senate filibuster rule so that Democrats can pass an abortion rights law, reversing the recent Supreme Court decision The "exception to the filibuster" called for by Biden would allow Democrats to pass a law enshrining abortion access rights with their current thin majority and no Republican support His call for the unusual legislative manoeuvre comes after the Supreme Court overturned decades of federal protection for abortion...
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'Bring this queer to jail!' Louisiana councilman-elect caught hurling anti-gay slurs in bar fight
According to KLFY, a former police chief just elected to the city council in Abbeville, Louisiana, was caught on film spewing slurs in a bar fight, with the footage released the night before he's set to be sworn into office "Body camera footage obtained by News Ten from the Abbeville Police Department shows newly elected city councilman Tony Hardy getting into a fight at a local bar and using homophobic slurs," reported Britt Lofaso "At the time, Hardy was still a political candidate running...
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Knife-wielding man held on hate crime charges after threatening to murder Asian store worker
A 19-year-old Washington man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly threatened an Asian store worker, the Yakima Herald-Republic reports Favian Isaiah Oseguera was also charged with with second-degree assault in relation to the June 17 incident where the worker called police to say a man threatened to kill him Court documents say Oseguera threatened the worker, who was employed at the Valley View Market in Sunnyside, with a knife and said he would come back later with a gun ...
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Vegas MAGA rioter accused of plot to bring firearms to Capitol -- now he's working with feds: report
On Wednesday, KLAS reported that a Las Vegas man facing felony charges for his alleged role in the January 6 attack on the U S Capitol is now cooperating with federal investigators "Nathaniel 'Nate' DeGrave, 32, of Las Vegas agreed to plead guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, the U S Attorney’s Office said," said the report "DeGrave, who is originally from Pennsylvania, spoke exclusively with the 8 News...
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'Don't let it happen!' Trump begs Newsmax host not to cut his election conspiracy rant
Former President Donald Trump confronted Newsmax host Rob Finnerty and accused the network of burying news about an election conspiracy theory movie While speaking to Finnerty in an interview that aired on Thursday, Trump argued that members of the Jan 6 Committee "don't talk about any of the things that refute Jan 6 ""The people were there because the election was rigged and stolen," he insisted "They don't even want to hear that And Fox doesn't put it on and, by the way, you people don't...
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Democrats, here's a thought: Stop retreating Stand up for your own voters for once
Right after the draft of the Roe v Wade opinion leaked, Sen Dick Durbin of Illinois, a Democrat, condemned peaceful protests near Supreme Court judges' houses as "reprehensible" and promptly voted to provide more security for Brett McBeer and company I wasn't surprised that my senator was quicker to protect Sam Alito from candlelight vigils than he was to protect me and my family from Sam Alito But as a novelist and a woman, I'm furious and terrified Democrats have lost the entire plot, and...
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‘This time seems different’: Trump faces two political challenges that he’s ill-equipped to face
Former President Donald Trump faces two political challenges outside his control that are unlike anything he's faced since he first announced his candidacy for president, according to Politico co-founder John F Harris The U S Supreme Court that largely struck down abortion rights last week, and the Jan 6 Committee continues to reveal shocking details about his involvement in the insurrection, and the twice-impeached former president seems to understand those two stories are linked in a...
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'Massive betrayal': Biden cuts deal with McConnell to nominate anti-abortion judge
President Joe Biden has reportedly struck a deal with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to nominate an anti-abortion lawyer to a lifetime federal judgeship in Kentucky, news that comes less than a week after the U S Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion "Lifetime appointments to federal courts for people with records like Chad Meredith are unacceptable "According to Louisville's Courier-Journal, Biden has agreed to nominate Republican attorney Chad Meredith...
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Trump denies Cassidy Hutchinson's 'fantasy land' claims: It's 'very hard' to grab steering wheel
Former President Donald Trump this week denied accusations that he attempted to grab the steering wheel in a presidential SUV and that he tried to assault a Secret Service agent on Jan 6, 2021 During an interview that aired Thursday on Newsmax, Trump lashed out at the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former adviser to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows "This lady yesterday, there's something wrong with her," the former president asserted "Is there something wrong? She said I jumped...
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GOP donors rushing to support DeSantis because he's 'less likely to embarrass' them than Trump
A new report from Reuters claims that many big Republican Party donors are getting ready to move on from former President Donald Trump and toward Florida Gov Ron DeSantis Prominent GOP donor Dan Ebenhart bluntly tells Reuters that "the donor class is ready for something new" before going on to explain why DeSantis is so appealing to them "DeSantis feels more fresh and more calibrated than Trump," he said "He's easier to defend, he's less likely to embarrass, and he's got the momentum "GOP...