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Supreme Court hands Trump administration a victory in immigration battle (FOX News)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Trump administration a victory in its battle to clamp down on illegal immigration by making it easier to detain immigrants with criminal records.
The ruling that federal immigration authorities can detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime after they have been released from prison on criminal charges represents a victory for President Trump. [Read More]
At a joint press conference Tuesday with Brazillian President Jair Bolsonaro, President Trump answered a question about the lawsuit brought by Rep. Devin Nunes against Twitter. [Read More]
Pentagon finds $12.8 billion for Trump’s border wall (Washington Examiner)
The Defense Department has identified $12.8 billion in possible funding that it could use to fulfill President Trump’s call for a border wall.
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., released the 20-page spreadsheet on Twitter Monday night.
Trump last month declared a national emergency at the border, and said he wants to use $3.6 billion for border wall projects. The Pentagon’s list said it has found possible funding sources that are “in excess of the amount needed.” [Read More]
Over the past two years, we’ve heard a lot about actions that President Trump has taken to destroy norms — and I’ve joined in the criticism at times myself. But Democrats running to replace him in 2020 are not campaigning on a platform of restoring norms, they are just pushing to destroy different norms that they don’t like.
Even putting aside the radical policies they are proposing, Democrats want to make structural changes to the American system of government to benefit their own political agenda. [Read More]
Bernie Sanders’s record on gun control, explained (VOX)
Bernie Sanders faced consistent criticism from the left on one issue in the 2016 Democratic primary: guns.
Opponents Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley attacked Sanders’s past votes against a bill in 1993 that established national background checks and for a bill in 2003 and 2005 that protects gun companies from lawsuits if their products are used in crimes. Sanders, an independent from rural and gun-friendly Vermont, defended the virtues of moderation on this issue — arguing, “We need a sensible debate about gun control which overcomes the cultural divide that exists in this country, and I think I can play an important role in this.” [Read More]
Local family law attorney says ruling on frozen embryos can open up Pandora’s box (FOX 10)
A court ruling where a divorced woman is allowed to implant fertilized embryos, over the objection of her ex-husband, is raising some eyebrows.
This a very tricky case that raises a very clear question about paternal rights, over whether a father have a say in what happens to a frozen embryo after a divorce. Under the ruling, the courts has said “No”, and that ruling has certainly caught the family law community by surprise. [Read More]
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