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Another Obamacare Case Makes It to Supreme Court

April 2, 2021 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Vox: “Kelley v. Becerra is the fourth round of litigation attacking major provisions of the Affordable Care Act. It seeks to take out several provisions of Obamacare governing which forms of preventive care — things like birth control or vaccinations or cancer screenings — must be covered by health insurers.”

“Though the primary legal argument in Kelley is tough to square with existing legal precedents, five members of the Supreme Court recently signaled that they intend to abandon longstanding legal principles in favor of the same interpretation of the Constitution proposed by the Kelley plaintiffs.”

Filed Under: Health Care, Judiciary

MLB Moves All-Star Game from Georgia

April 2, 2021 at 3:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Major League Baseball is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 draft out of Atlanta in response to a new Georgia voting law that critics say unfairly limits access to the ballot box, especially for people of color, ESPN reports.

Said commissioner Rob Manfred: “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”

Filed Under: Celebrities

Vulnerable Democrats Fret Over AOC Donations

April 2, 2021 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “As the midterm campaign’s first fundraising deadline approached this week, several vulnerable House Democrats got an unwelcome surprise in their accounts: $5,000 from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”

“The New York Democrat sent the contributions to her colleagues to help keep the House majority ahead of a tough cycle without directly contributing to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, with which she’s publicly clashed. But Ocasio-Cortez’s largesse — and an oversight at the campaign headquarters — has instead raised awkward questions among her colleagues as some swing-district Democrats fret over whether to return her money before the GOP can turn it into an attack ad.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign


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Biden Claims Infrastructure Plan Will Create 19 Million Jobs

April 2, 2021 at 2:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Joe Biden said the sweeping infrastructure proposal he unveiled this week would create 19 million jobs to further boost the U.S. economy’s trajectory coming out of the pandemic,” Bloomberg reports.

Filed Under: Economy

Republicans Trod Well-Worn Path to Court to Sue Biden

April 2, 2021 at 2:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “These are busy days for Republican state attorneys general, filing repeated lawsuits that claim President Joe Biden and his administration are overstepping their authority on immigration, climate change, the environment and taxes.”

“Most of the action is in federal courts where former President Donald Trump was able to appoint conservative judges. The strategy harks back to what Democrats did during Trump’s presidency, heading to court in New York, California, Maryland and other states where they were likely to receive a friendly reception.”

Filed Under: Judiciary

John Boehner’s Problem with Fox News

April 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Chris Cillizza: “To Boehner’s critical point about how Fox skewed incentives within the GOP: No longer was the goal for most members of Congress (or those aspiring Republicans hoping to join their ranks) to accrue seniority and rise in the ranks of their preferred committee or even into House GOP leadership. Now the goal was to become a conservative pundit on Fox News — that was where the real power (and money if you decided to leave Congress) was.”

“And the best way to get on Fox News as much as possible? Say the most outlandish and outrageous things possible. Fox viewers were ready to believe whatever the worst thing you could say about Obama or any of the Clintons. There was no bridge too far.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz

Matt Gaetz Says He Won’t Resign

April 2, 2021 at 1:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told The Hill on Friday he has no plans of stepping down after coming under fire following reports that the Department of Justice is investigating him for a possible violation of sex trafficking laws.

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Monthly Border Crossings Hit 15-Year High

April 2, 2021 at 1:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “More than 171,000 migrants were taken into custody along the U.S. southern border in March, the highest monthly total since 2006.”

“The extraordinary increase — up from 78,442 in January — underscores the magnitude of the challenge facing the Biden administration, especially as it races to add emergency shelter capacity for an unprecedented number of teenagers and children crossing without their parents.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Don’t Let John Boehner Rewrite History

April 2, 2021 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Charles Pierce: “If there’s any evidence that John Boehner tried to arrest the prion disease before it took over his caucus, and then his entire political party, it was not evident in his performance as Speaker. The man was positively hysterical in his opposition to the Affordable Care Act.”

“That he bailed out before the maniacs took full control is a tribute to his survival instinct, not his political integrity. He got run over by forces from which he and his party had been profiting, and which got out of the lab because he wasn’t strong enough, or willing enough, to stop it.”

Filed Under: Republicans

Why the Filibuster Is Less Important to Senate Republicans

April 2, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “Republicans face less grass-roots pressure to kill off the filibuster. Many of their top priorities, such as confirming judges, repealing the Affordable Care Act or cutting taxes, already can be pursued with just 51 votes, since a simple majority is sufficient to confirm nominees, and a fast-track process, known as reconciliation, exempts budget-related bills from the 60-vote threshold.”

Filed Under: Senate

White House No Longer Has Trump Documents

April 2, 2021 at 12:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump’s top aides in the lead up to, and on the day of, the January 6 attack on the US Capitol,” CNN reports.

Wrote White House counsel Dana Remus: “It has been the longstanding practice for all White House records to be transferred to the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration at the end of each President’s tenure.”

Filed Under: Trump Legacy, White House

Brendan Boyle Will Pass on Senate Bid

April 2, 2021 at 12:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) announced on Friday that he will forgo a bid for an open and highly contested Pennsylvania Senate seat, The Hill reports.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: PA-Sen

Top Staffer to Matt Gaetz Quits

April 2, 2021 at 12:03 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News reports that Luke Ball, the communications director for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), has resigned.

Filed Under: House of Representatives

Cawthorn Blames Syria Airstrikes for Mass Shooting

April 2, 2021 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) told WJZY that he believes the man alleged to have carried out a mass shooting in a Colorado supermarket last week was inspired to violence following U.S. airstrikes in Syria, which he called a “failed policy” of the Biden administration.

Filed Under: Gun Control

John Boehner’s Message to Ted Cruz

April 2, 2021 at 11:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

When former Speaker John Boehner was recording his audio book, Axios reported that he would deviate from the book’s text and insert random attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz.

Here’s one of the audio clips.

Yep, I’ll be buying the audio version.

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Filed Under: Political Books

Ossoff Urges Boycott of Georgia GOP, Not Businesses

April 2, 2021 at 11:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in a statement to National Review:

“I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia. Georgia welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity, and events. In fact, economic growth is driving much of the political progress we have seen here. Georgia welcomes the world’s business.”

“Corporations disgusted like we are with the disgraceful Voter Suppression bill should stop any financial support to Georgia’s Republican Party, which is abusing its power to make it harder for Americans to vote.”

Filed Under: Republicans

Vaccinated Americans Can Travel Safely

April 2, 2021 at 11:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The CDC said that Americans who are fully vaccinated can travel “at low risk to themselves,” both within the United States and internationally, but they must continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public, avoiding crowds, maintaining social distancing and washing hands frequently, the New York Times reports.

“Vaccinated Americans do not need to get a coronavirus test before arriving in another country, unless required to do so by authorities at the destination, and they do not need to quarantine after returning to the United States unless required to do so by local jurisdictions.”

Filed Under: Health Care

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Filed Under: Administrative

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