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The importance of judicial review
Commentary, Local Columnists
Mar 14, 2025
Republicanshave rightfully criticizedDemocratsin recent years for leaning on theSupreme Courtin an effort to intimidate the justices into supporting a...
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Is Trump pushing powers beyond the Constitution?
Commentary, Nation World
DAVID G. SAVAGE Los Angeles Times 
Jan 29, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversit...
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Trump’s former high-level aides speak volumes
Commentary, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Oct 28, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly , broke a long silence and denounced his former...
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Real winner from House fight? Mitch McConnell
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 09, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...
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Biden finally facing reality on the border
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 08, 2023
After Joe Biden visits our nation’s border with Mexico this weekend, his detractors will no longer be able to assert that our president is simply igno...
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Foot-dragging on judicial vacancies
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 01, 2022
Even as Democrats reel from draconian impact of Republicans’ success at stacking the U.S. Supreme Court, the Biden administration is in danger of leav...
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High court status quo
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 31, 2022
Justice Stephen G. Breyer has made many rulings during a long and distinguished career, but his most consequential may turn out to be his decision to ...
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Republicans should rethink idea-free campaigns
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jan 25, 2022
Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...
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GOP pushes back on Democratic ‘big lie’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Jan 13, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...
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Perfected politics of ‘No!’
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 29, 2021
Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...
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Approve Jan. 6 commission
Local Columnists, Nation World
May 28, 2021
The Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was one of the darkest days in the country’s history, when democracy was threatened by its citizens. We ca...
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GOP’s new McCarthyism
Local Columnists, Nation World
ROBERT A. GEORGE Tribune News Service 
May 27, 2021
Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Repu...
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McCarthy, McConnell want you to forget about Jan. 6
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 25, 2021
It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...
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No surprise Biden is pushing a progressive agenda
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 18, 2021
President Joe Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abrupt...
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