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Last Friday, activist Shannon Watts took to social media to respond to the Supreme Court's 8–1 ruling in U.S. v. Rahimi, in which the justices ruled it is legal for the government to temporarily disarm someone whom a court has found poses a safety threat to others. "The Rahimi case should never have been taken up by SCOTUS," she said in a now-deleted post on X, formerly Twitter. "To even question whether domestic abusers should have access to guns shows just how extreme this court has become." It was an odd thing to say, for a few reasons. For one, the decision, by pretty much all accounts, wa...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) had good things to say about centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) during a speech at the University of Louisville on Monday. “I’ve only known Kyrsten for four years, but she is, in my view … the most effective first-term senator I’ve seen,” McConnell said as he invited her to the stage. “She is, today, what we have too few of in the Democratic Party: A genuine moderate and a dealmaker,” the Kentucky Republican added. “As you can tell, I have a very high opinion of the senator from Arizona,” he said. “But my biggest compliment to her is: S...
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“God, no,” said Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) in response to a question regarding a bipartisan immigration bill. “I’m not in support of legalizing one person until you’re in control of the border.” Despite his recent comments, Graham did, in fact, support a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, joining efforts with four Democrats and three Republicans. Additionally, Graham has reportedly been talking to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) about an immigration accord, and the pair have worked to reintroduce the DREAM Act, though it may not win any Republican votes in the Senate. Graham has also...
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A group of 10 GOP senators led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) met with President Joe Biden to discuss COVID-19 relief plans on Monday evening. Collins and the senators wrote a letter to Biden requesting a meeting. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden is “happy to have a conversation with them.” Republican senators have offered a COVID-19 relief plan totaling in $618 billion. This is less than one-third of the plan proposed by the Biden administration. The GOP plan calls for $160 billion for vaccine development, distribution, testing and tracing. An additional $132 billion is for e...
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