Henry Rodgers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly walked out of a meeting with a group of Democrats discussing anti-Semitism Wednesday after facing criticism for not responding to Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel. In a meeting with Democratic colleagues, Pelosi was reportedly confronted by a number of members of Congress for not reaching out to…
Evie Fordham President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday that a Senate vote to terminate his national emergency for border wall funding is not about “constitutionality” but about “desperately needed” border security. “Senate Republicans are not voting on constitutionality or precedent, they are voting on desperately needed Border Security [and] the Wall,” Trump wrote. “Our Country…
Michael Bastasch For the cost of implementing the Green New Deal, the federal government could buy every American a brand new Ferrari luxury sports car, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “For the comparatively cheap price of just $66 trillion I’m told the government could buy every American a Ferrari,” McConnell said on…
Michael Bastasch Senate Democrats are trying to shield themselves from voting on the Green New Deal. However, Republicans and environmentalists will make sure the Green New Deal sticks around through 2020. “Both the GOP and Democrats will love to denounce and praise it,” said one political observer. Democrats are trying to shake off the specter…
Kevin Daley Christian baker Jack Phillips and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) have resolved a legal dispute that set Phillips’ religious beliefs against the state’s public accommodations law. The deal, announced Tuesday afternoon, provides that the Commission will close an ongoing anti-discrimination probe of Phillips’s Masterpiece Cakeshop if Phillips withdraws a federal lawsuit alleging…
Whitney Tipton on March 5, 2019RepublishReprint Once considered shady, the business of pot is now a billion-dollar industry, generating a skilled workforce demand big enough to make college curriculum developers take notice. With retail sales estimated at $11.8 billion in 2018, forecasters project that recreational marijuana will employ almost 500,000 people by 2022. More than a dozen college and universities now offer coursework relevant…
Tim Pearce Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 plea deal that cost the New York financier a stint in county jail and forced him to register as a sex offender was “fair,” Epstein’s legal team wrote in The New York Times. Epstein’s legal team, made up by Kenneth Starr, Martin Weinberg, Jack Goldberger and Lilly Ann Sanchez, wrote…
Neetu Chandak Hawaii state Rep. Bob McDermott weighed in on University of South Dakota officials who told law students it was not appropriate to have leis at a beach day event. The Student Bar Association of the USD School of Law originally named the social event “Hawaiian Day, according to the Sioux Fall Argus Leader. The…
Evie Fordham A 10-year study of more than 650,000 people was published Monday and showed no evidence that there is a link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. The paper was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine a day before Tuesday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on vaccines and preventable…
Andrew Kerr Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a top aide appear to control an outside PAC credited with being the central force behind her June 2018 primary victory. One former Federal Election Commission member thinks there would be a “serious investigation” if a complaint were filed, noting that the probe could potentially result in civil penalties or…