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The importance of judicial review
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 14, 2025
Republicanshave rightfully criticizedDemocratsin recent years for leaning on theSupreme Courtin an effort to intimidate the justices into supporting a...
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Is Trump pushing powers beyond the Constitution?
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID G. SAVAGE Los Angeles Times 
Jan 29, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversit...
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Now they love Senate filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 13, 2024
News outlets called the last outstanding U.S. Senate race this week for Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona. That gives Republicans a 53-47 edge in the ...
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Trump’s former high-level aides speak volumes
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Oct 28, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly , broke a long silence and denounced his former...
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Real winner from House fight? Mitch McConnell
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 09, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...
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Hawley more and more like a VP candidate in waiting
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Dec 08, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Put aside all the funny memes of Sen. Josh Hawley running. Could it be that the soon-to-be senior senator from Missouri is vyin...
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GOP, reject isolationist strain
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2022
In the days before the midterm elections, it’s easy to see our political divisions. In fact, it’s all but impossible to escape them if you’re the sort...
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Foot-dragging on judicial vacancies
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 01, 2022
Even as Democrats reel from draconian impact of Republicans’ success at stacking the U.S. Supreme Court, the Biden administration is in danger of leav...
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Republicans should rethink idea-free campaigns
Opinion, Сolumns
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jan 25, 2022
Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...
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GOP pushes back on Democratic ‘big lie’
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jan 13, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...
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Biden’s direct aim at Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 09, 2022
Gone was President Joe Biden’s pleading, folksy, queasy tone that usually permeates his public remarks. Instead, he went hard on the attack against Do...
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Congress must fix law that made Jan. 6 riot possible
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 14, 2021
Next weekend, supporters of former President Donald Trump plan to march on Washington in a show of support for the rioters who stormed the Capitol on ...
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Perfected politics of ‘No!’
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 29, 2021
Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...
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The Republican Party’s new McCarthyism
Сolumns
ROBERT A. GEORGE Bloomberg Opinion/ TNS 
May 27, 2021
Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Repu...
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McCarthy, McConnell want you to forget about Jan. 6
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 25, 2021
It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...
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