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Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah) said on Monday they would support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, making for three GOP senators who said they will back President Biden’s pick to the high court. “After multiple in-depth conversations with Judge Jackson and deliberative review of her record and recent hearings, I will support her historic nomination to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Murkowski said in a statement. Romney said he had concluded that Jackson was “a well-qualified jurist and a person of ho
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Politics Sarah Palin announces run for Congress.
Darth Sidious posted a topic in World News & Discussion
Former Alaska Governor, and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin announced today that she is throwing her hat into the race to fill the seat of the recently parted Don Young, Congressman at-large for the State of Alaska. Palin, a conservative firebrand who helped stoke the anti-establishment sentiment that has engulfed the party since she ran alongside the late Sen. John McCain years ago, said in a statement that she planned to “honor” the nearly five decades Young served in Congress by “offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for.” -
Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed today that she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States. With Joe Manchin (D-WV) announcing earlier this week that he will vote to confirm KBJ to the Supreme Court, Democrats had already locked up the requisite 50 votes needed to force the upper chamber to a 50-50 tie, and therefore break the tie with Vice President Kamala Harris. With news of Collins and her vote, the confirmation is all but official. It’s still possible, if not probable, that one or two more Republican senators could vote to confirm, bu
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This year the most populous and most important economical country in the European Union is holding its elections. Angela Merkel won't do another term, so Germany is getting the first time in 16 years a new leader. Running for chancellor: Parties & current polls (April, 14th) Christdemocrats: 27% (-5,9%) Green Party: 23% (+14,1%) Socialdemocrats: 15% (-5%) Liberals: 9% (-1,7%) Afd (far right): 11% (-1,6%) The left: 8% (-1,2) For the first time in history its possible that a Green candidate will be chancellor.
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WE LOVE OUR NEW PRESIDENT ELECT!
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We all know and saw what happened with USA citizen George Floyd and how he got MURDERED by a police officer (actually 4 police officers). Let's spread awareness about the BLM movement and sign as many petitions as we can, possibly donate and inform others about what's going on. No justice was served, not for every single black person who died and not for the black people who will die in the future (if we don't change things around). Staying quiet & silent about this equals being opressed and not caring about this major issue at all. It's 2020, it's time to speak up about this and ma
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Politics Are you registered to vote in the midterms?
Onika posted a topic in World News & Discussion
Quick and easy way to check (this is a tool from Vote.org, none of this information can be seen or used by us for any reason): This is an incredibly important midterm election, and I urge you to exercise your right to vote. -
Politics Sean Spicer & Trump's Personal Lawyers resign
Infrared posted a topic in World News & Discussion
WASHINGTON — Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. Mr. Trump offered Mr. Scaramucci the job at 10 a.m. The president requested that Mr. Spicer stay on, but Mr. Spicer told Mr. Trump that he believed the appointment was a major mistake, according to person with direct knowledge of the exchange. Mr. Scaramucci, who founded the global investment firm SkyBridge Capital and is a Fox News Channel contributor, is kn -
This is only mildly surprising, considering how many of her supporters weren't particularly enthusiastic and were just voting for her to try and keep Trump out of office. Poll is based on 1001 people, which isn't massive but not ridiculously low for these sort of studies either. http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-poll-numbers-after-216-election-2017-7?utm_content=buffer34b22&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-bi
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Two more Senate Republicans came out against the party’s revised health care bill Monday evening. The Senate push to repeal and replace Obamacare is now short of the votes it would need to advance on the Senate floor, leaving the current version of the plan effectively dead. The defections are a devastating blow to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hopes of passing an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill. Leadership had hoped to vote on the bill this week, but a health emergency for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) had delayed that plan. Now the bill is short of the votes it needs and could st
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Senate Republicans are delaying their effort to vote on legislation repealing ObamaCare until after the July 4 recess after a number of members said they opposed the current bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told members of the decision on Tuesday at a closed-door meeting. "He simply said I think we need more time to work on it, we don't have the votes right now," Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) told reporters after the meeting. A Congressional Budget Office score on the measure found the Senate bill would leave 22 million more people without insurance compared to pr
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BERLIN (AP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time seems to have softened her previous opposition toward legalizing same-sex marriages. Merkel said Monday that German lawmakers could possibly take up the issue in the future as a "question of conscience," meaning parliamentarians could vote based on their individual beliefs and regardless of what their party platforms say. Germany's national election is coming up in September, and all of the country's main parties support of same-sex marriage except Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Party and the nationalist Afd
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The Senate Republican ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill would result in 22 million more uninsured people over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The analysis is a hurdle for Republicans as they look to pass their bill this week. The bill would result in $321 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years, the CBO found. There would be 15 million more uninsured people next year, the report finds, largely due to the mandate to buy insurance being repealed. The number of uninsured would then rise in later years as smaller subsidies to buy private
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The Trump administration’s “travel ban” — which will bar citizens of six majority-Muslim countries from entering the US for a period of 90 days — will finally go into effect over the summer. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that despite rulings in two different federal courts that the ban should be put on hold while judges decide whether it’s constitutional, the Trump administration should be allowed to enforce the ban over the summer. The Court itself will hear the lawsuits against the ban in the fall. Due to the Court’s ruling, the Trump administration will be able to bar citizens of
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court enters its final week of work before a long summer hiatus with action expected on the Trump administration's travel ban and a decision due in a separation of church and state case that arises from a Missouri church playground. The biggest news of all, though, would be if Justice Anthony Kennedy were to use the court's last public session on Monday to announce his retirement. To be sure, Kennedy has given no public sign that he will retire this year and give President Donald Trump his second high court pick in the first months of his administration.
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Senate Republican leaders on Thursday released a draft of their long-awaited ObamaCare repeal bill ahead of a high-stakes vote expected next week. The measure includes deep cuts to Medicaid and fundamentally reshapes that program from an open-ended government commitment to a system of capped federal payments that limit federal spending. The bill repeals billions of dollars in ObamaCare taxes used to raise money for the law’s coverage expansion and also abolishes the law’s mandates to buy coverage. The health law’s tax credits to help people buy private coverage would be kept but resh
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Although, no one cares, I'll be updating this special election. It most likely won't even be called for another 12 hours. Tuesday’s runoff between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District will decide what has become the most expensive House campaign in history — and quite possibly the most consequential special election since Watergate. He could win by carrying just 3 or 4 percent of the voters who backed Republican candidates other than Ms. Handel in April. He could also win by turning out enough supporters who did not vote in April. The fina