2020 Dems divided on whether to abolish ICE
Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are divided over whether to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is charged with enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.
Independent voters still glad Hillary lost 2016 election
The majority of Independent voters hold no regrets over former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday.
University settles lawsuit after discriminating against Republicans
A Washington university is shelling out big bucks to settle a dispute with a Republican student group that filed a lawsuit alleging the school discriminated against it by charging exorbitant security fees for speaker events.
Americans are complaining that Department of Energy regs are ruining dishwashers
“Until we went to my parents house, who have a much older dishwasher than us, we had no clue how terrible of a job our newer dishwasher was doing compared to theirs,” one person wrote the DOE. “We are left doing hand washing a lot at home because of how poorly the top rack cleans dishes. What a waste of water.”
De Blasio wants to abolish ICE, replace it with something ‘sensible’
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined his voice with dozens of Democrats calling to abolish the immigration police force responsible for investigating and arresting illegal aliens throughout the country.
Capital Gazette shooting the largest mass shooting of journalists in America
The shooter killed five people and injured several more at the Annapolis, Maryland, news outlet. Prior to this incident, 10 journalists have been shot to death in the U.S. since 1992 in separate, work-related instances, according Committee to Protect Journalists data.
What Abraham Lincoln foresaw if Maxine Waters, others got mob justice
Lincoln condemned the sharp increase of mobs in America, which had exploded in number as the debate over slavery and regional animosity intensified.
Michael Bloomberg is paying for ‘legal fellows’ to help Democratic state attorneys resist Trump
At least nine state attorneys general offices are looking to hire privately funded lawyers to work on environmental litigation through a foundation founded by a prominent Democratic donor and potential 2020 presidential candidate. That foundation is the nonprofit Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The 25 people President Trump will consider for next Supreme Court justice
Who’s going to be the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court? According to the White House website, it’s one of these 25 candidates.
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down mandatory union fees for government employees
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that nonunion government workers can’t be forced to pay dues or other fees to support a union, further diminishing the power of organized labor and setting up what right-to-work proponents called the “hard work” of protecting free speech rights for the nation’s government employees.
Fact Check: ‘Wages are growing at their fastest rate since 2008’
Wage growth can be thorny, if only because there’s no single way to measure it. Is it true that “wages are growing at the fastest rate since 2008”?
Supreme Court rules Trump travel ban is constitutional
A five-justice majority of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in full the latest iteration of President Donald Trump’s travel sanctions Tuesday. The ruling was an unqualified victory for the Trump administration.