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The Supreme Court 'kneecapped' the lower federal courts. Or did it?
The courts continue to be the only bulwark against an overreaching executive, writes Nancy Gertner, a former U.S. District ...
Senate committee votes to block Trump FBI headquarters move
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved an amendment to the annual Justice Department funding bill aimed at blocking the Trump administration from keeping the FBI’s ...
Scientists are holding a ‘science fair’ in the lobby of a congressional building to show what the U.S. stands to lose with cuts
The pop-up fair came after Trump signed a bill cutting science budgets—from climate research to medical trials. All’s fair on ...
They wanted to ‘fix Congress.’ They still do, modernizers say
Despite losing a key Democratic champion to retirement, modernization advocates say the work isn’t done in the 119th Congress ...