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Mondaire Jones Slams Hudson Valley Rep. Lawler For Trump Support After Report He Praised Hitler Mondaire Jones Slams Hudson Valley Rep. Lawler For Trump Support After Report He Praised Hitler
Mondaire Jones Slams Hudson Valley Rep. Lawler For Trump Support After Report He Praised Hitler Mondaire Jones is not holding back his criticism of his opponent in the race for New York's 17th Congressional District seat, Rep. Mike Lawler, for his support of former President Donald Trump despite his longest-serving chief of staff saying he meets the definition of a fascist.  Jones, a Democrat, made comments against Lawler, a Republican, following remarks made by former Trump chief of staff and four-star Marine general John Kelly, who told The New York Times that Trump "certainly falls into the general definition of fascist."  According to the Times, Kelly also said that Trum…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe V. Wade, Ending 50 Years Of Federal Abortion Rights Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe V. Wade, Ending 50 Years Of Federal Abortion Rights
Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe V. Wade, Ending 50 Years Of Federal Abortion Rights This story has been updated. The Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs. Wade, the ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the United States in 1973. The court's 5-4 decision was announced late Friday morning, June 24. The ruling gives individual states the power to make their own abortion laws. “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion," the majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito said. "Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives." "Roe was egregiously wrong f…
Trump Becomes Only President To Be Impeached Twice, This Time For 'Incitement Of Insurrection' Trump Becomes Only President To Be Impeached Twice, This Time For 'Incitement Of Insurrection'
Trump Becomes Only President To Be Impeached Twice, This Time For 'Incitement Of Insurrection' Donald John Trump is now the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. On Wednesday, Jan. 13 - just a week before the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden and a week after the deadly pro-Trump riot at the Capitol building - the U.S. House voted to impeach Trump, a Republican, by a margin of 232-197 on one charge of incitement of insurrection. View the impeachment resolution here The vote was bipartisan. All 222 Democrats voted to impeach while 10 Republicans also did so, including GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming, daughter of form…