The Supreme Court
The battle to confirm Amy Coney Barrett plunged a Senate already bruised by years of tit-for-tat skirmishes in the judicial wars into deeper partisan acrimony.
The new justice said judges declare independence not only from Congress and the president who appointed them, but also from their own private beliefs.
The vote was 5 to 3, with conservative justices saying federal courts were interfering too much in election procedure choices that should be left to local officials.
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As an increasingly conservative Supreme Court again takes up the Affordable Care Act, athletes should be concerned.
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Polls have not shown this playing a particularly huge role in the battle for the Senate.
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Edwin M. Stanton was confirmed in 1869 without a single vote from a Democrat, kicking off a tangled story spanning three presidencies.
Millions have registered to vote in Texas since 2016, and as with Arizona and Georgia, the shift seems to benefit Democrats.
He is tied in the polls in the state, but Georgia has a long history of dashing Democratic hopes.
After George Floyd's killing, Linda Harris was inspired to retrace Tubman’s journey from Cambridge, Md., to Kennett Square, Pa. She found some kindred spirits.
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The two countries signed a pact to share geospatial intelligence, paving the way for deeper military cooperation as they confront an increasingly assertive China.
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Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court victory. The future of the Affordable Care Act. And a shift in the White House’s thinking on how to tackle the coronavirus.
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“We need to win one more game,” Kershaw said after Game 5, doing his best to tamp down the anticipation. “I’m going to keep it together for one more game.”
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