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14th Amendment
Nyack-Valley Cottage, NY
Politics
'I'm Everything You Fear': Rosie O'Donnell Hits Back After Trump Floats Revoking Citizenship
Rosie O’Donnell has responded to President Donald Trump’s salvo claiming he's considering revoking her US citizenship with a blistering, 280-word Instagram broadside that revives one of the entertainment world’s longest-running feuds. Posted late Saturday, July 12, alongside a photo of Trump socializing with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the comedian and Emmy-winning talk-show host's message casts Trump as “king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan." O'Donnell declared that Trump's threat to strip her of citizenship only proves “I still live rent-free in that collapsin…
Simsbury, CT
Politics
Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Ban
A federal judge has issued an indefinite nationwide preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, marking a significant legal setback for the administration. US District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland ruled Wednesday, Feb. 5, in favor of five pregnant undocumented women who challenged Trump’s executive order. The policy aimed to redefine the 14th Amendment, excluding children of undocumented immigrants from receiving automatic US citizenship at birth. Boardman determined the order directly conflicts with the "plai…
Albany, NY
Politics
NY Among States Suing Trump For Ending Birthright Citizenship: 'Dangerous, Unconstitutional'
Several states in the Northeast are fighting to block an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship. A coalition of 18 states – including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maryland – are named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Trump administration that was filed in Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The suit argues that Trump’s order denying US citizenship to the children of those who are neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident is unlawful. “This dangerous and unconstitutional order undermines…
Alexandria, VA
News
Gov. Youngkin Says Gay Marriage Is Protected In Virginia — But Is It?
Gov. Glenn Youngkin stirred controversy on last weekend with a comment he made about gay marriage in Virginia. Youngkin was a guest on 'Face the Nation', where he claimed that gay marriage was protected by law in his state. While gay marriage is allowed in Virginia because it is federally protected by the 14th amendment and because the state passed two laws in 2020 to remove the ban on same-sex marriage, it is still not constitutionally protected. Virginia's Bill of Rights says that heterosexual marriage is the only union recognized by the state. Gov. Youngkin's team responded to the b…
Brookfield, CT
News
Family Of Fairfield County Woman Claims Police Mishandled Investigation Into Her Death
The family of a Fairfield County woman who was found dead in her apartment are upset over the way her death was handled and intends to sue over the matter. Lauren Smith-Fields, age 23, of Bridgeport, was found dead in her apartment on Sunday, Dec. 12 by Bridgeport Police after an "older white man" who she met on a dating site called to report her death, the family said at a news conference on Sunday, Jan. 16. According to Rolling Stone, the family is upset over the city authorities’ handling of the 23-year-old’s untimely death. They are also asking that an independent agency be brought i…
Lancaster, PA
News
Federal Lawsuit Filed Over
Covid-
19 Vaccine Mandates at Penn Medicine
Workers for Penn Medicine who were dismissed from their jobs for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine, have filed a federal lawsuit. Hundreds of employees have quit or been dismissed from Penn Medicine since the vaccine mandate was announced this past spring. The suit states that the vaccination mandates are unconstitutional, violating employee rights and they were wrongfully terminated. The 11-page document specifically cites four issues the defendants are seeking damages for: Violation of First Amendment rights. Violation of the 14th Amendment, "right to privacy and body." Wrongful terminati…
Fort Lee, NJ
News
Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87
It wasn't a stretch to call Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a rock star. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery for the petite but fiery champion of gender equality, who died Friday in Washington, D.C. Her family was with Ginsburg, who died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, the court said. She was 87. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
Harrison, NY
Politics
President Trump Vows End To Birthright Citizenship, Sparking Democratic Uproar
Just when elected officials from both major political parties are calling on President Donald Trump to tone down pre-Midterm Election rhetoric, the Republican vowed to sign an executive order ending the century-old practice of birthright citizenship. Trump's announcement triggered immediate scorn from U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and other leading Democrats, but praise from congressional Republicans. Trump said he plans to terminate the automatic right to citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizens, a move that some legal experts say would be unconstitutional. "It’s in the process. I…
