Immigration Activists On Executive Actions: It’s Not Enough
They acknowledge the lives Obama will affect with long-awaited executive actions to slow deportations, but say parents of DREAMers must be protected.
They acknowledge the lives Obama will affect with long-awaited executive actions to slow deportations, but say parents of DREAMers must be protected.
Sen. Bob Corker, the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, says he hasn’t spoken to Chairman Bob Menendez about any plan to vote on a new AUMF.
“I think that — people, voters want to know where you stand, where you are, and they want to feel they can trust what you say.”
The Draft Carson campaign has spent millions this year on fundraising, and paid close to $236,000 to Vernon Robinson, the effort’s campaign director.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, Valerie Jarrett steered clear of telling Capitol Hill what to do on the pipeline. The White House said Thursday the administration has a “dim view” of plans to vote on Keystone.
Top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in an exclusive BuzzFeed News interview on the newest iteration of the White House’s It’s On Us anti-sexual assault campaign.
Economist Jonathan Gruber made the controversial comments at several different academic events. The White House says it disagrees with the remarks, and “they’re simply not true.”
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas would have stopped them.
The GOP candidate defeated incumbent Democrat Mark Begich after absentee ballots were counted, giving Republicans 53 seats in the U.S. Senate.
A disagreement over whether a non-discrimination bill should include gender identity protections sends Republicans and national LGBT groups scrambling. A key player has gone rogue, two sources say.
With federal workplace legislation stalled, most LGBT advocates appear ready to embrace a 2012 ruling from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that protects trans workers. Except one: the National LGBTQ Task Force.
Tondalo Hall was sentenced to 30 years in prison for allowing child abuse — while the actual abuser got only two years. Now she seeks clemency, and a women’s rights group is backing her with an online petition.
“And I would imagine from my first glance at her credentials that she would get approved by the Senate. This is a very outstanding young woman from everything that I can tell.”
The first estimate of the costs of bringing in the Clintons to campaign. The final total will likely top $1 million by the time more filings become available.
On Monday, the president surprised just about everyone with a pitch for net neutrality right out of the activist playbook.
Mitt Romney has the stupidest spreadsheet. We must stop surrogate madness.
Sotomayor calls for a response to Kansas’ request for a stay pending appeal by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
“I mean, the real problem with race in America is a very, very beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass that is — uh, just can’t seem to get its way going in the way that blacks were able to before the scourge of drugs and the scourge of gangs.”
“Impeachment would be a consideration, yes sir.”
The likely Republican presidential candidate suggests that Clinton, who is 67, may not be able to handle the “rigorous physical ordeal” of the campaign trail.
The Internet Association says Obama’s plan “would establish the strong net neutrality protections Internet users require.”
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the rules as written would “needlessly restrict competition.”
Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson weigh in on the Iran talks, the peace process, and more. Saban says Israel should take military action if the West negotiates a nuclear deal with Iran that will be bad for Israel.
“The buck stops right here at my desk,” the president told CBS News.
The social network may end TV’s long dominance of American politics — and open the door to a new kind of populism. BuzzFeed News and ABC News share exclusive access to Facebook’s new “sentiment data.”
While several progressive, particularly civil rights groups, praised Obama’s nomination of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general, the American Civil Liberties Union was silent.
“We were married, not married, married, not married,” Sophy Jesty says of her fight to force Tennessee to recognize her marriage to Val Tanco. “Right now, our family remains legally divided.”
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Democrats can’t make their case to the country when a presidential nominee isn’t on the ballot. “We’ve got to do better.”
It was a concert for the troops before Veterans Day. Hat tip to Ryan Cormier.