He cited “easy” reforms such as “proper disclosure and transparency” of the “gifts, travel and hospitality” received by the judges themselves and the “people who are behind front-group amicus curiae briefs” and “who was funding the political advertisements for the last three judges, writing $15-million and $17-million checks.”
Progressive activists argue that expanding the Supreme Court is the best way to tackle what they view as the court’s extreme ideological tilt.
Markey on Friday said trying to work with the “GOP-packed” court would be futile.
“Trying to legislate with a GOP packed Supreme Court and the Jim Crow filibuster is always 1 step forward, 3 steps back,” he tweeted.
Senior adviser to Israel s prime minister Mark Regev provides insight into the conflict between Israel and Gaza, and details the aftermath
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CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I m Chris Wallace.
A ceasefire in the Middle East, but how long will it hold?
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genuine opportunity to make progress and I m committed to working for it.
WALLACE (voice-over): President Biden walking a tight rope in his first
foreign policy crisis, praising the truce to end 11 days of conflict.
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People shelter in the House chamber as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. The House passed a bill to fortify the U.S. Capitol building by a single vote, 213-212, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
WASHINGTON The House on Thursday narrowly approved $1.9 billion to fortify the Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection, as Democrats pushed past Republican opposition to try to harden the complex with retractable fencing and a quick-response force following the most violent domestic attack on Congress in history.
The bill s 213-212 passage came a day after the House approved the formation of an independent commission to investigate the deadly mob siege by President Donald Trump s supporters, who battled police to storm the building in a failed attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden s election.
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) and Indiana Senator Mike Braun were joined by more than three dozen of their GOP colleagues in sponsoring the Don t Weaponize the IRS Act introduced Thursday.
Speaking of the bill on the Senate floor, McConnell outlined the dangers posed by the Biden administration and congressional democrats attempts to pass the radical H.R.1 reform known as the For the People Act that includes multiple elements that would chill Americans exercise of free speech and let Washington bureaucrats hoard more of citizens private information without good cause.
Just before leaving office, President Trump and his administration announced a final rule that prohibited the IRS from going after tax-exempt organizations on the basis of their ideological or political beliefs. The Democrats For the People Act would remove that ideological freedom protection, and conservatives have the most to lose in such a situati