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Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt told Fox News that states should have the right to decide who can carry concealed weapons. "If the guy wants to enjoy the full benefit of residing in the United States, become a citizen." (Associated Press)

New Mexico’s immigrant ruling to bolster gun rights cases

A federal judge ruled Monday that legal immigrants have the same right to concealed-carry permits as American citizens, in a New Mexico case that gun rights advocates said strengthens their argument that the Second Amendment is a fundamental personal right.

March 31, 2014
**FILE** Cesar Chavez gestures as he speaks during a Los Angeles news conference March 8, 1989. Chavez, the United Farm workers president who staged a life-threatening fast against pesticide use in 1988, said the union's boycott of California table grapes is a success that has forced growers to lower prices and dump fruit they couldn't sell. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)

Cesar Chavez resolution blocked by GOP

Republicans said they would have allowed a resolution to pass if Democrats had accepted additional language that recognized Chavez supported strict enforcement of immigration laws in order to help protect American workers' wages.

March 31, 2014
Todd Jones, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is slated to testify Wednesday before Congress on Operation Fearless. (Associated Press)

Watchdog: ATF allowed official’s salary double-dip

A former ATF official who approved the botched Fast & Furious gun-running operation was allowed to double-dip on salary with the approval of his supervisors, according to an internal auditor's report that adds to the troubles surrounding the embattled agency.

March 31, 2014
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is confident in the Friday ruling, saying the Constitution gives states the right to determine voter qualifications. (Associated Press)

Civil rights groups appeal voter registration form ruling

Civil rights groups on Friday appealed a federal court decision that said states can require proof of citizenship on their voter registration forms — a ruling the activist groups said runs counter to Supreme Court precedent.

March 30, 2014
** FILE ** Evelyn Dennis hangs a U.S. flag as election workers set up voting booths at Memorial Elementary School in Little Ferry, N.J., on Nov. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

Voting rights activists appeal proof-of-citizenship ruling

Civil rights groups on Friday appealed last week's federal court decision that said states can require proof of citizenship on their voter registration forms — a ruling the activist groups said runs counter to Supreme Court precedent.

March 28, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice gestures as she speaks to the media during a press conference at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, July 28, 2006. Rice said Friday that southeast Asian nations had made "an important evolution" in dealing with Myanmar's junta and called for the quick release of dissident Aun San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Condoleezza Rice blames Obama for ‘vacuum’ that’s led to Putin

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a closed-door address to a group of Republicans this week, issued a spirited defense of a broader role for the U.S. in the world, saying President Obama’s leadership has left a vacuum that’s been filled by “dictators like Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Vladimir Putin in Russia.”

March 27, 2014
“We used to be the uninvited party crashers. All of the sudden we’re the belle of the ball. Well, it’s time to dance.” - Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat (Associated Press)

Democrats push for House vote on immigration

House Democrats announced an official petition drive Wednesday to try to pressure Republicans and force a final congressional vote on immigration — but they are facing criticism from immigrant rights activists who say the move is political theater and that the real problem is President Obama's deportation record.

March 26, 2014
House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

House lawyer: IRS’s Lerner can be held in contempt

The House's chief counsel has concluded that that Lois G. Lerner, the former employee at the center of the IRS targeting scandal, can still be cited for contempt of Congress, according to a memo released Wednesday.

March 26, 2014
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing probing whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the government’s tax agency. Earlier this month, IRS official Lois Lerner was called to testify about the controversy but refused to answer questions by committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights at least nine times. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IRS stonewalls probe of tea party targeting emails

The Internal Revenue Service's tea party targeting program is still withholding approval of 19 organizations' nonprofit status, nearly a year after the scandal was revealed, the agency's commissioner testified Wednesday to Congress — where he faced fierce criticism from lawmakers who said he is stonewalling.

March 26, 2014
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, following a closed-door Republican strategy session. Boehner is one of a number of U.S. officials named on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sanctions list. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Boehner calls latest Obamacare delay ‘a joke’

The Obama administration's latest delay in the enrollment deadline for Obamacare has enraged Republicans, who said while they're getting used to the tweaks, it underscores the many problems with the law.

March 26, 2014
In the six months since the enrollment began, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Republican, has refused attempts to hold votes on proposals to halt or undo parts of the health care law — including several sponsored by members of his own party. (Associated Press)

Reid won’t allow floor votes undoing parts of Obamacare

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled Tuesday that he won't allow any votes to undo parts of Obamacare, leaving Democrats to have to face voters in November without any chance for a do-over on thorny issues such as the individual mandate.

March 25, 2014
Lauren Wright of Washington, D.C., right, and other birth control supporters rally outside the Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in Affordable Care Act challenges, the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius, which mandate that private insurance plans must cover birth control, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Federal court skeptical of Obamacare tax subsidies

A federal appeals court seemed skeptical Tuesday of the Obama administration's position that it can give Obamacare subsidies to Americans regardless of what kind of exchange they are in, in a case that could threaten the fundamental deal underpinning the Affordable Care Act.

March 25, 2014