“These massacres are preventable,” said Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. Following the latest school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Democratic lawmakers are highlighting recent data showing firearms are now the leading cause of death among U.S. children as evidence of the fatal consequences of Republican opposition to gun control legislation. “This is a choice,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) tweeted Wednesday. “Every […]
“There are a lot of MAGA Republicans for whom no amount of gun violence… will ever, ever convince them to take any action,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Less than two weeks after a white supremacist gunned down 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked legislation aimed at […]
“Our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must sit for depositions as part of the state’s ongoing civil probe into the Trump Organization’s allegedly fraudulent business […]
“This has become part of who we are as a country,” said Julián Castro. “The free availability of guns has not made us safer in the United States or here in the state of Texas.” A South Texas town is reeling Tuesday after at least 21 people—including 19 students and two adults—were killed and an unknown number […]
