There are a few issues that complicate the constitutional mandate that a crime should be prosecuted where it was allegedly committed. One is that a crime may be committed in more than one district.
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Texas history is both the story of people who dedicated their lives to the work of advancing freedom and the story of powerful people and forces that stood against it. A history Texas Republicans today are trying to erase.
The Espionage Act covers a much broader arena than traditional spying and includes the unauthorized possession, storage or disclosure of classified information.
A close look at new education restriction laws shows that they are generally written so broadly that they can’t effectively stop teachers from teaching history in a way that’s fair, accurate and true.
Once a racist enslaver, George H. Thomas distinguished himself after the Civil War in his active protection and promotion of the rights of formerly enslaved persons.
No one got everything they wanted. President Biden didn’t get the clean debt ceiling increase he had insisted on for months. Republicans didn’t get most of what they sought—though they did get some of it.
The original debt ceiling was created in 1917 because Congress couldn’t meet quickly to approve needed spending to fight a war—it took days by rail days to get to Washington. Today, Members can vote from home.
Cities and states faced with mounting costs of climate change have sued Big Oil. Of course, these companies spared no expense trying to blocking these cases—but the Supreme Court let them continue.
The IRS usually grants tax-exempt status to applicants with at least one allowed purpose, including being charitable or educational. But determining whether organizations are truly religious or educational can be hard.
Woody Guthrie once wrote, “The Housewives of the country are always afraid at nite, afraid they’s a robber in the house. Nope, Milady most of em is in the Senate.”
It is increasingly common for companies to make public claims about the sustainability of their products and business operations—but it’s not always clear how they are actually impacting the environment.
There have been 22 shutdowns of the federal government due to lack of a federal budget. As destructive as these were, they pale in comparison to the catastrophe of failing to lift the debt ceiling.
Insider trading typically involves trading stocks of individual companies based on information about them, but it can also involve any kind of information about the economy, a commodity or anything else that moves markets.
For more than a half-century, Belafonte carried on the legacy of the 1960s. Like few others, he blended the worlds of culture and politics, singing a song of justice.
The Dominion lawsuit gave us a rare opportunity to see just how dishonestly Fox’s talent, like Tucker Carlson, acted when the cameras were rolling—all the while claiming an authenticity that was completely fake.
Stand your ground laws authorize defensive violence without a duty to retreat. Some also expand the circumstances in which someone could use lethal force to defend property.