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In the 1920s, nativist lawmakers introduced “citizen-only” bills. Then, a bipartisan coalition emerged to fight back.
The State Department on Friday formally notified Congress it is effectively dissolving the US Agency for International Development and moving some of its functions under the department. The ...
One of the bleak ironies of our ongoing constitutional crisis is that federal courts are attempting to do a job that would, ideally, be performed by Congress—and rather than show gratitude ...
But his advice can also apply to the state of Congress today. The three holes it has fallen into involve not living up to its basic constitutional roles of first exercising the powers of the purse ...
Another judge found that Mr. Trump’s efforts to shut down a federal agency probably violated the Constitution and stripped Congress of its authority. The president was accused of overstepping ...
But Congress kept plenary power over local laws ... which could give the state another representative in the next reapportionment. While locals and Democrats have long rejected that idea, Rep.
Here's a look at some of the richest members of Congress: Sen. Rick Scott of Florida Scott — a former two-term Florida Republican governor who won a second term in the Senate in November 2024 ...
A dozen of the state’s members of Congress are on the nonpartisan Cook Political Report’s list of competitive races, easily the most of any state in the nation. The state’s importance in the ...
Indeed in the 1920s nativists in Congress routinely introduced “citizen-only” reapportionment bills as a means of delaying the decennial reallocation of House seats as required by the federal ...