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With the May deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan looming, the administration of President Joe Biden has several options on how to proceed.
President Trump, who campaigned on the promise to get the United States out of what have been characterized as our “forever wars” agreed to a peace deal with the Taliban. According to the agreement signed in Doha, in February 2020, the U.S. and the NATO coalition would withdraw all troops by May 1, 2021, if the Taliban stopped allowing al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas they controlled and proceeded with national peace talks.
Four months later, Justice Barrett sits on the Supreme Court, President Biden
Democrats have little time to act and the question of which plan to pursue looms large. This debate typically revolves around one task: identify the policy that best balances political reality with legal rigor. Why? Because Congress will get only “one shot” before the court itself weighs in. And by then it may be too late for Congress to start over.
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This legal-political balancing act poses a dilemma: popular plans get watered down to preempt legal concerns while controversial policies dominate the debate based on their constitutional pedigree. For example, Fix The Court’s plan would require justices to take senior status after 18 years (a widely popular approach), but the plan exempts sitting justices to avoid potential legal issues. Take Back the Court, meanwhile, argues that packing the court is the only viable option because anything else might be invalidated.
Daily Caller reports:
Large corporations have endorsed and lobbied for a $15 federal minimum wage in recent years, but while they can afford such a policy, small businesses would be harmed, multiple studies have shown.
“More than doubling the federal minimum wage is one of the policies that would threaten the fragile small business economic recovery,” said National Federation of Independent Business Vice President of Federal Government Relations Kevin Kuhlman.
The $15 minimum wage would result in 1.3 million workers losing their jobs, a 2019 Congressional Budget Office report estimated.
Large corporations have endorsed and lobbied for a $15 federal minimum wage in recent years, but while they can afford such a policy, small businesses would be harmed, studies have shown.
Delaware is a tiny state. The joke is there are no degrees of separation.
We always ask people where they went to high school because we know that s where we ll find our Delaware connection. And we usually do.
President Joe Biden s son Beau was a few years younger than I was. We didn t go to the same schools in Delaware, but we knew some of the same people. Our paths crossed every once in a while, especially when he was attorney general. That s just Delaware.
Back in 2002, I was assigned to write a feature story on a guy who had decided to become a politician. I had to follow this guy around to many events. While I had covered the late Sen. Bill Roth s last campaign, I was struggling with this assignment.