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Obama Scolds Senate Republicans for Supreme Court Threat

By Jeff Mason/Reuters on Feb 17, 2016 Featured, National

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to pick an indisputably qualified nominee for the Supreme Court and chided Republicans who control the U.S. Senate for threatening to block him from filling the pivotal vacancy. Obama told senators he has a constitutional duty to nominate a new justice after Saturday’s death […]

Op-Ed: Shiny New Legislative Building No Place To Get People’s Work Done

By Les Gara on May 8, 2015 Op/Ed and the Editor

Last week this legislative session should have been over. Instead it continued past its 90-day deadline, and the Governor rightly called a 30-day extension. Then the Republican-led majority voted for a break from work. That’s why legislators aren’t still in Juneau doing the public’s business. I and other Democrats voted to keep working, and to […]

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