This was never supposed to be a hard case. The text of the 14th Amendment was written by men who had just buried six hundred thousand Americans fighting over whether a human being could be property. It was written to settle one specific question. Today the Court used it to settle a completely different one.
The Department of Transportation announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is moving to allow civil supersonic flights over the United States.
When Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009, he had a direct response for critics who warned that his proposed health care overhaul would extend benefits to people who had no legal right to them. "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants," he said from the House chamber. "This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." From the Republican side of the aisle, Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina broke with decorum and shouted two words: "You lie!" History has been considerably kinder to Wilson than the Washington press corps was that evening.
White House Religious Liberty Commission released its final draft report to President Trump, detailing the ongoing fight to protect religious freedom in the nation.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be teaching a course at the University of California, Berkeley, at a new "nonpartisan" institute bearing her name.
The U.S. Postal Service would refuse to mail election ballots in states that decline to provide the federal government with their absentee voter lists, Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate panel Wednesday.
