Barack Obama said elections have consequences, and today the Supreme Court proved it again.
Senate Republicans refused to let Obama fill a court vacancy during his second term and held it open for a year, then handed it to Trump, who filled it and named two more. That refusal created the 6 to 3 majority now ruling on the country’s biggest questions.
Four years ago this week, that majority took a basic right from every woman in the country when it overturned Roe. Today it ruled that people fleeing for their lives can be turned back at the border before they ever set foot on American soil, with no right to even ask for asylum. The Statue of Liberty still invites the world to send us its tired and its poor. This court just told them not to bother.
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Source: CBS News
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Source: NPR
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Source: The Hill
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Source: The Associated Press
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An Alaska judge restores retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan to the U.S. Senate ballot against Senator Dan S. Sullivan, finding no evidence the challenger meant to confuse voters.
Source: Alaska Public Media
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Source: CNBC
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Source: Semafor
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Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified notes from his memoir, a rare win in Trump's campaign of prosecutions against critics.
Source: NOTUS
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Source: WTVR Richmond
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Source: USA Today
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A false abuse report removes former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's 4-year-old twins from his home for 24 hours before Michigan police rule it a hoax.
Source: NBC News
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The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
Source: The Texas Tribune
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Trump posts a commemorative passport rendering featuring his own image looming over the Resolute Desk, captioned "Welcome, but be good!" to mark America's 250th anniversary.
Source: CNN
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A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with "building bridges," its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds "no power."
Source: The Independent
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Source: Reuters
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Source: Good Good Good
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Source: Syracuse.com
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