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Former President Trump Challenges Supreme Court Decision in Colorado Ballot Case, Warns of ‘Chaos and Bedlam’
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Former President Trump Challenges Supreme Court Decision in Colorado Ballot Case, Warns of ‘Chaos and Bedlam’

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM Former President Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Thursday, challenging a decision by Colorado's highest court to remove him from the state's 2024 ballot. Trump urged the justices to swiftly and decisively end efforts to disqualify him from the presidential ballot in Colorado. Trump argues that these efforts not only threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans but also have the potential to unleash ‘chaos and bedlam’ across the nation. In his main filing to the court ahead of the oral arguments on February 8, Trump seeks to overturn a bombshell decision by a Colorado court that could keep him off the state's ballot due to his alleged connection to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Despite the upcoming argu...
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Tim Scott will endorse Donald Trump in blow to Nikki Haley
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Tim Scott will endorse Donald Trump in blow to Nikki Haley

By Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) will endorse former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Friday in a blow to his fellow South Carolinian, former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Scott, who ended his own presidential bid in the fall, plans to endorse Trump at a rally in New Hampshire, just days before the state's first-in-the-nation primary, a source familiar confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The choice to back Trump rather than Haley is particularly significant, given Haley and Scott's history. When Haley was governor of South Carolina, she appointed Scott to the Senate in 2012 to replace former Sen. Jim DeMint. READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.COM
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Anti-abortion groups eye the long game to achieve political and cultural wins
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Anti-abortion groups eye the long game to achieve political and cultural wins

By Breccan F. Thies and Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE As supporters from across the country gather in the nation’s capital for the 51st annual March for Life on Friday, abortion is becoming a more powerful force in politics than it has been in a generation. This year’s march, with the theme of "with every woman, for every child," will take place against the backdrop of a presidential election in which abortion will play a major role, several abortion initiatives on state ballots this year after recent losses for the anti-abortion side — and the question of how supporters of the movement can advance their goal of protecting the unborn. Several abortion-related cases are also set to be decided by the Supreme Court. Sin...
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Understanding the Constitution: How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration—Part IV
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Understanding the Constitution: How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration—Part IV

By Rob Natelson | SOURCE: INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE This essay was first published in the Jan. 12, 2024 Epoch Times. Part I of this series showed that the unauthorized mass migration into states at the Southern border qualifies as an “invasion” as the Constitution uses the term. That Part also pointed to a constitutional canard—the false claim that federal power over war, immigration, and foreign commerce is “exclusive,” and that the states have no authority over those subjects whatsoever. But as Part II and Part III demonstrated, the Constitution explicitly recognizes state authority to wage defensive war when invaded. This Part IV examines a particularly thorny problem: To what extent may the federal government interfere when states exer...
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Colorado Dems don’t want order at the border, just billions more taxpayer dollars
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Colorado Dems don’t want order at the border, just billions more taxpayer dollars

SOURCE: COLORADO PEAK POLITICS Denver Mayor Johnston flew to D.C. on the taxpayer’s dime Thursday to demand taxpayers cough up billions more to pay for the millions of migrants crashing Biden’s wide open border with bogus asylum claims. Johnston’s been making those same demands for months, but now he has a photo of himself demanding money while flanked by some of the state’s Democrat delegation in front of the U.S. Capitol. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston joins Sens Mike Bennet & John Hickenlooper and Reps Jason Crow & Brittany Pettersen to urge Congress to do more to help cities/states dealing with the migrant crisis. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/CNCANjSYtR— Caitlyn Kim (@caitlynkim) January 18, 2024 Democrat mayors from major cities including Johnston are making it c...
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Trump urges US Supreme Court to reverse Colorado ballot disqualification
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Trump urges US Supreme Court to reverse Colorado ballot disqualification

By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a judicial decision disqualifying the former president from Colorado's Republican primary ballot as the justices prepare to tackle the politically explosive case. Trump's lawyers in court papers presented the former U.S. president's main arguments against a Colorado Supreme Court Dec. 19 ruling barring him from the primary ballot over his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The justices have scheduled oral arguments in the case for Feb. 8. Trump's lawyers urged the court to "put a swift and decisive end to these ballot-disqualification efforts," noting that similar...
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House Republicans pass two anti-abortion bills on eve of March for Life
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House Republicans pass two anti-abortion bills on eve of March for Life

By Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE House Republicans passed two anti-abortion measures on Thursday ahead of the 51st annual March for Life in Washington. The House voted 214-208 along party lines to pass H.R. 6918, the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act, which seeks to prevent the Department of Health and Human Services from discriminating against pregnancy resource centers. The House also voted 212-207, with no Democrats voting in favor, for H.R. 6914, the Pregnant Students Rights Act, which requires colleges and universities to inform female students of their rights under Title IX if they become pregnant and choose to carry their child to term. In October, the Biden administration...
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McConnell joins 45 GOP senators backing Trump in Colorado ballot fight
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McConnell joins 45 GOP senators backing Trump in Colorado ballot fight

By Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE The fate of former President Donald Trump's primary ballot access in Colorado got a boost Thursday from 46 Republican senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), calling on the Supreme Court to keep him on the ballot. More than two dozen amicus briefs have been filed to the public docket for the Supreme Court case over whether Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2024 presidential election, is disqualified from appearing on the Centennial State's primary ballot under a 14th Amendment provision barring anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding office again. In the latest brief, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), 177 Rep...
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Senate passes funding bill to stave off government shutdown
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Senate passes funding bill to stave off government shutdown

By Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE The Senate voted to extend government funding into March on Thursday as lawmakers prepared to leave town in anticipation of another D.C. snowstorm. The continuing resolution, which passed 77-18, is the third short-term extension the Senate has approved since September. Before the final vote, the Senate rejected a handful of amendments that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) agreed to in order to expedite passage of the bill. One of them, sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), would have prevented aid from going to the Palestinian Authority and other governing bodies in Gaza and the West Bank unless they met conditions that include recognizing the state of Israel. The Senate voted down the...
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