Tag: Republicans
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GOP filibuster blocks Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill
Biden praised Senate Democrats for standing together “against the ongoing assault of voter suppression that represents a Jim Crow era in the 21st Century”
June 23, 2021 -
New videos show violent Capitol attacks on police
A 49-year-old Indiana grandmother is expected next week to become the first 6 January person to be sentenced
June 19, 2021 -
Back home: Biden has daunting tasks after European tour
The White House believes that Biden’s proposals are broadly popular in the country, if not on Capitol Hill, and is wagering that lawmakers can be brought along with a combination of cajoling and the presidential bully pulpit.
June 18, 2021 -
‘Obamacare’ survives: Supreme Court dismisses big challenge
The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land, said President Joe Biden, celebrating the ruling
June 18, 2021 -
Senate Democrats press ahead on voting bill despite dim odds
The Democrats’ bill would bring about the largest overhaul of US voting in a generation, touching nearly every aspect of the electoral process
June 16, 2021 -
Hope yet for ‘Dreamers’
There may be hope yet for farm workers as well. By a vote of 247 to 174, the Democrat-led House also passed the Farm Workforce Modernisation Act, which will grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of farmworkers living in the United States without authorization.
March 23, 2021 -
US Supreme Court denies request by Pennsylvania’s Republicans to immediately halt counting of ballots
Samuel Alito ordered Pennsylvania in the meantime to continue keeping the late-arriving ballots separate, affirming a decision already made by the state's top elections official.
November 7, 2020 -
Eyes right
The Act, which helped millions of Americans obtain access to health insurance and stopped insurers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, is opposed by Mr Trump and by several Republican-ruled states.
October 28, 2020 -
Pete Buttigieg drops out of US Presidential race after unexpected South Carolina primary
Buttigieg took center stage when securing a narrow victory in the Iowa caucuses.
March 2, 2020 -
Failure of leadership: US Senator Bernie Sanders on Trump’s response to Delhi riots
Bernie Sanders is the second Democratic presidential nominee after Senator Elizabeth Warren to speak against the violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi.
February 27, 2020 -
Acquittal and After
Markedly, he has been acquitted by the legislature and not by the judiciary, and pregnant are the implications of the difference.
February 8, 2020 -
Trump impeachment: House of representatives sends articles to Senate, all set for trial
The two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power and the other for obstructing the House investigation, were delivered in blue folders in a solemn procession by the newly appointed House managers
January 16, 2020 -
Jury would convict President Trump ‘in three minutes’: US House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Most Republicans have stuck with Trump as the affair has unfolded, saying there is no clear and direct evidence that he wrongly pressured Ukraine for personal political gain.
December 9, 2019 -
Mike Bloomberg, one of world’s richest men enters US presidential race
Bloomberg offered a preview of what he will focus on in the race, including his philanthropic work fighting gun violence, closing coal-fired power plants and funding medical research.
November 25, 2019 -
White House refuses to cooperate in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry
'Your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections,' said President's counsel Pat Cipollone of the probe, which is weighing whether Trump abused his office by seeking a quid pro quo from Ukraine.
October 9, 2019 -
Trump impeachment row: US president has put whistleblower under danger, says lawyers
Andrew Bakaj, the lead attorney for the anonymous intelligence official who spoke about Trump’s activities relating to Ukraine, expressed his fears saying the whistleblower could be put “in harm’s way” were his or her identity made public.
September 30, 2019 -
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry of Trump for ‘betrayal of his oath of office’
Since the revelations that Trump sought the help of Ukraine's President to investigate 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden many Democrats were infuriated, particularly lawmakers with national security credentials.
September 25, 2019