Articles by Alex Swoyer
The Supreme Court ruled Monday Donald Trump, as a former president, is now free to block whomever he likes on Twitter -- while Justice Clarence Thomas hinted it's Big Tech that may be due for an edit of its own.
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April 5, 2021
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Republicans say the cost of administering early voting is a reason to allow states to dictate how -- and for how long -- their voters can go to the polls.
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April 1, 2021
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The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the city of Charlottesville can remove two Confederate statues, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the flashpoint for a violent white supremacist rally in 2017.
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April 1, 2021
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The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee moved on Wednesday to intervene in lawsuits brought by liberal advocacy groups challenging Georgia and Iowa's new election laws.
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March 31, 2021
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The NCAA competed with college athletes at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, telling the justices that its athletes are amateurs who don't deserve compensation for their skills.
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March 31, 2021
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The Republican National Committee is launching a six-figure ad campaign to attack Democrats' legislation that aims to set national standards on how states run their elections.
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March 31, 2021
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Minority groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Georgia officials this week over the state's new election laws that require a photo ID to get an absentee ballot and other measures, which the lawsuit charged would disenfranchise Black and Hispanic voters.
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March 30, 2021
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A group of parents in New Jersey are fed up with virtual schooling for their children and have taken their fight to the courts. In two federal class-action lawsuits, the parents are demanding the schools bring their children back into classrooms. They also warn three other school districts could be sued by the end of the week.
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March 29, 2021
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The Supreme Court rejected a case Monday seeking to have Hillary Clinton testify about her use of a private email for official business as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
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March 29, 2021
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Civil rights groups have sued Georgia, challenging a new election law that requires an ID to vote by absentee ballot.
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March 27, 2021
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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a professor who was punished by his university for refusing to call a transgender student by the student's female pronouns.
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March 26, 2021
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Dominion Voting Systems on Friday sued Fox News for $1.6 billion, claiming the network defamed the company by falsely saying it perpetrated fraud during the 2020 election in order to boost ratings.
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March 26, 2021
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The Senate's top priorities in the spring will be civil and voting rights, gun control, and economic recovery with a focus on climate change, Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced Thursday.
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March 25, 2021
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against police officers in New Mexico who shot a woman who fled from arrest and said the woman could sue them for using excessive force even though she escaped capture at the time.
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March 25, 2021
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The Democrats' massive election overhaul bill received a cool reception on Wednesday from Senate Republicans who said it would inject partisanship into the election system and invite fraud, including registering millions of undocumented immigrants to vote.
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March 24, 2021
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A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that there is no right to carry a gun in public.
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March 24, 2021
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Sen. Charles E. Grassley is demanding justice against several individuals who lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee over allegations against Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his confirmation in 2018.
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March 23, 2021
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Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against her over her claims of election fraud, saying her speech was political in nature and protected by the First Amendment.
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March 23, 2021
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Democrats are championing their massive election overhaul as a voting rights bill, but their proposal reaches far beyond the ballot box, with dictates on how candidates may run for office and rules restricting how states could challenge the sweeping new laws in court.
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March 22, 2021
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The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case to reinstate the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, putting President Biden in a conundrum about capital punishment.
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March 22, 2021
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