Month: October 2023
Supreme Court To Hear Case That Could Be The Undoing Of Major Financial Regulator
‘It overreaches constantly’
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Merrick Garland: ‘We Don’t Have One Rule for Republicans and Another for Democrats’
‘We don’t have one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless’
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US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Block Trump in 2024
The former president’s eligibility to be on 2024 presidential ballot is being challenged in a number of states.
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The US Government Shutdown Is Not the Problem. Public Debt Is.
Commentary There are hundreds of headlines all over the news warning of the negative impact of a government shutdown. The negative impact on GDP, according to Bloomberg, is estimated at 0.5 percent of the quarterly annualized rate if the shutdown lasts for two weeks. Clearly, that is an annualized rate, not the overall hit. The […]
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The Real Reason for a DC Fire Alarm
McCarthy is hardly the white knight of great statesmanship and the deal is not an example of good governance, but House Republicans need to face a simple reality: They control one half of Congress, and by only four votes at that.
Having to rely on House Democrats to do it, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy managed a short-term spending deal to extend funding through mid-November.
Justice for Jamaal Bowman
— shutting down, New York City Democrat Congressman Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in the House of Representatives’ Cannon office building.
As The New York Times reports : “The alarm was triggered at the same time that House Democrats at the Capitol were stalling a vote on a spending measure to keep the government operating for another 45 days.
