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5th Circuit rules Texas transmission law unconstitutional
September 1, 2022
A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that a state law giving existing Texas utilities priority in building electric transmission lines violates constitutional protections for interstate…
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Republicans are readying lawsuits to block Biden’s student debt plan
September 1, 2022
Republican state attorneys general and other leading conservatives are exploring a slew of potential lawsuits targeting President Biden’s plan to cancel some student debt —…
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California gas-powered car ban could fuel GOP legal battle
September 1, 2022
California last week approved the country’s most ambitious electric vehicle targets, with the state’s Air Resources Board voting to ban the sale of gas-powered cars…
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Authorities are investigating a bomb threat called in Tuesday night on Boston Children’s Hospital, which has faced a harassment campaign from right-wing groups for providing…
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Labor union approval at highest rate since 1965: Poll
August 31, 2022
Across the country, labor unions have celebrated recent victories at companies like Starbucks and John Deere. However, union membership rates have dropped to a historic…
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‘What is true for alcohol and milk’ must be true for transmission, 5th Circuit says in NextEra decision
August 31, 2022
Dive Brief: A Texas law giving incumbent utilities the sole right to build transmission lines connecting to their systems likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s dormant…
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Judge Aileen Cannon: Trump’s request for ‘special master’ puts one of his judicial appointees in the spotlight
August 31, 2022
Former President Donald Trump’s request for a “special master” to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate has…
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Recent union efforts in Mass. part of growing national trend
August 31, 2022
A slew of unionizing efforts at companies across Massachusetts reflects a national labor trend and a shift in attitudes about unions. Last month, workers voted…
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Biden shows the way forward.
August 31, 2022
President Biden continued his newly aggressive tone in a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. He condemned GOP threats of violence intended to dissuade the DOJ…
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UN expert: US progress on LGBT rights but equality lacking
August 31, 2022
Enormous progress has been achieved in the last 50 years for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States but unfortunately “equality is…
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Mark J. Roe Says More…
August 30, 2022
Project Syndicate: In your new book, Missing the Target: Why Stock-Market Short-Termism Is Not the Problem – and in a number of PS commentaries –…
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The Partisan Implications of the ISL Theory
August 30, 2022
An article by Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Observers of the debate over the independent state legislature (ISL) theory would be forgiven for assuming that its adoption would…
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Former President Donald Trump was mercilessly mocked after demanding that he be retroactively declared the 2020 presidential election winner or be allowed to hold a…
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Want to Fight Climate Change? Do It Yourself.
August 30, 2022
An op-ed by Ashley Nunes: President Biden finally has his climate bill. Earlier this month, America’s 46th president signed the Inflation Reduction Act. The move—which…
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The redacted FBI affidavit released on Friday regarding the Aug. 8 search of the defeated former president’s Florida estate reveals many things about Donald Trump’s…
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Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over
August 29, 2022
Some baby boomers were permanently shaped by their participation in the countercultural protests and the antiwar activism of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Others were shaped…
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Labor movement adds union members store by store
August 29, 2022
Workers at a Chipotle outlet in Lansing, Michigan, and an REI in Berkeley, California, voted to unionize this week. They’re the latest of hundreds of…
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Forget about inflation, abortion, job growth or the economy. The real issue is who will be indicted first — Donald Trump or Hunter Biden? The…
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Tarullo on Powell’s Speech in Jackson Hole
August 29, 2022
Daniel Tarullo, former Federal Reserve Board Governor and Harvard Law School Professor, joined “Bloomberg Markets: European Close” with Kailey Leinz and Guy Johnson following Fed…
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Harvard Law professor mocked after thanking Biden for student loan forgiveness, which critics are calling an Ivy League ‘bailout’
August 29, 2022
Do Harvard-trained lawyers deserve to have any portion of their student loans canceled under the Biden administration’s new debt-relief plan? That’s the question some are…
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Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights
August 29, 2022
Lab rats have rights. Before researchers in the United States can experiment on the animals, they need approval from committees that ensure they follow federal…