20 Apr 2021
The Biden administration threw its support behind statehood for Washington, DC on Tuesday, bucking previous Democrat administrations’ legal determinations of unconstitutionality.
The Office of Management and Budget, under Acting Director Shalanda Young (pictured), issued a statement, reading in part, “For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C. have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress.”
“This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded,” it reads.
“Establishing the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth as the 51st state will make our Union stronger and more just,” it continued.
A.C.L.U. Asks Supreme Court to Let It Seek Secret Surveillance Court Rulings
A prominent Republican Ted Olson backed the request for high court review of a spy court ruling, which would be the first of its kind.
Theodore B. Olson, a solicitor general during President George W. Bush’s administration, previously defended part of a surveillance law Congress enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Credit.Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
April 19, 2021, 12:14 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to unlock the doors to the nation’s foreign intelligence wiretapping court, arguing that Americans have a First Amendment right to ask its judges to disclose secret rulings affecting their privacy.
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Partisan gridlock and friction between the White House and Attorney General Merrick Garland over key appointees are contributing to a slow U.S. Department of Justice transition, according to experts and sources familiar with the matter, threatening to keep politically sensitive investigations and policy rollouts on ice in the coming months.
15 Apr 2021
The Democrats have proposed, within President Joe Biden’s first 100 days, radical initiatives contrary to Biden’s “back to normalcy” campaign sold to the American people.
Accordingly, the Democrats have introduced the following radical initiatives: Packing the courts, amnesty, reparations, federalized elections, D.C. statehood, and banning the Electoral College.
These radical ideas and proposals run counter to what Biden said during his announcement speech for president:
The American people want their government to work, and I don’t think that’s too much for them to ask. I know some people in D.C. say it can’t be done. But let me tell them something, and make sure they understand this. The country is sick of the division. They’re sick of the fighting. They’re sick of the childish behavior.