“The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law,” U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams wrote
Notice what's missing from the White House's own statement here. Not a single specific allegation against any of the three commissioners fired. Just language about wanting people "totally aligned" with the administration's priorities on elections.
Thomas Hicks, Benjamin Hovland, and Christy McCormick were all unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Unanimous. Not a partisan rubber stamp, actual bipartisan agreement that these three were qualified to do this specific job. That consensus didn't protect them.
Mark Warner is right to call this something that should concern everyone regardless of party, but the deeper issue is procedural, not partisan. Congress wrote the two and two structure into the Help America Vote Act precisely so no single administration could hollow out election certification on its own authority. That structure just failed on contact with a Supreme Court ruling and an email from personnel.
Yes, about 10 drugs have dropped in price.
However, Donald Trump had absolutely nothing to do with it. Those changes occurred in the inflation reduction act passed under the Biden administration.
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UPDATE—ICE refuses to release body of man shot in Houston to his family.
Agents stripped him of any form of ID after they shot him—then classified him as "John Doe."
ICE is demanding family submit biometric info to confirm identity.
"He deserves a proper funeral," said lawyer.
Lawyer interview statement starts at 30 seconds into video clip.
"They haven't made it easy—they have made it very, very difficult."
"We are demanding the release of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's body."
Lidia Terrazas News doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
@StephenKing So good. Wish I could write like that. My good friend writes like that. Absolutely brilliant. But we’ll never see that door open no matter how long we bang our heads against it.