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From the start, Trump's commission was a sham. It has since devolved into a complete embarrassment for the administration – one that appears to have violated federal law.
A shot was fired at the rape culture Tuesday, as a private sector company, MOKO Social Media, stepped up to the plate by donating $100,000 to Detroit's Wayne Country Prosecutor's Office (Michigan) in order to help investigate a shameful backlog of rape kits.
One day people will wake up and wonder why they can no longer get the pill in their state, let alone an abortion. They can thank a Republican for the RFRA.
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has made headlines lately by elevating the bible over the Constitution in what seems to be a widely held opinion in Alabama. Because the bible says gays are an abomination to god, it drove Moore to order other state judges to ignore federal court rulings allowing courts to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Conservatives have proffered every possible scenario to justify torture, including Supreme Court Justice Scalia invoking a fictional television counter-terrorism agent, Jack Bauer, torturing alleged terror suspects to stop a fictional attack on America.
The Civil War is something a Texas Republican legislator, Dan Flynn, is attempting to repeat through a proposal that empowers just two Texas Republicans, the state house speaker and lieutenant governor, with authority to suspend any federal law within Texas's border.
Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama's imaginary attack on "traditional" marriage
In Missouri this week, Republicans moved forward another measure to nullify federal gun laws.
Eric Holder set the record straight and announced that regardless of Utah's intent to discriminate against same-sex married couples, the federal government will recognize the same-sex marriages.
Bright says, "If the Tenth Amendment won't protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth."
Missouri Republicans want to nullify federal gun laws with House Bill 436 and will vote today to override Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto
Republicans are taking steps to shred the Constitution they claim to love and declare they were laws unto themselves by way of nullification.
By all accounts, Sen. Mitch McConnell has violated Senate ethics standards and committed at least one federal crime; possibly two.
While paying millions to its executives, Hostess took the money that was supposed to go into employees' pensions and used it for other things.
Texas says to hell with international treaties and has threatened legal action against OCSE observers if they watch Texas suppress the vote