“It’s not punishing Planned Parenthood,” said Sen. Tracy McCreery, a St. Louis Democrat. “What this is doing is, this is hurting our very own constituents.”
“There’s nobody in Kansas City, nobody in St. Louis or anywhere in the state who’s been asking [for this],” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said about lawsuits using MOHELA to challenge Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
A continued stalemate led by congressional Republicans over U.S. aid to Ukraine in fighting its war with Russia fails to take into account that freedom around the world is at stake, the French ambassador to the U.S. said Monday. Ambassador Laurent Bili, making his first visit to Chicago since being appointed to the post more than a year ago, also said Russia President Vladimir Putin’s efforts .
When Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as special counsel overseeing the Justice Department’s investigation into Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents during his time as vice president, it was tempting to see the move not only as a slam dunk, but as an extension of Garland’s larger effort to restore the DOJ’s tattered reputation. After all, it was clear from the very beginning that Hur would not find any criminal wrongdoing—the documents Biden possessed were clearly k