GOP backlash to Omar earmark slows government-funding bill

The determined conservative backlash to the Somali-led organization in Representative Ilhan Omar’s district is hindering momentum for a package of three funding bills, delaying progress on the package. Included in the “minibus” that funds multiple departments and agencies, the requested community project funds will provide $1,031,000 to the Somali-led organization Generation Hope’s “Justice…”. Source link

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Those justices are not fools 

It’s never a good idea to treat U.S. Supreme Court justices as if they’re idiots. And yet U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sawyer, inits 5th novemberDefense of President Trump’s tariff authority, came very close. Sometimes lawyers are called upon to defend the indefensible. And those who refuse to do so may quit or are sometimes…

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