North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed on Monday both an energy bill and the legislature's annual regulatory reform measure, while allowing legislation directing more state government oversight of high school athletics to become law.
The Supreme Court batted away an appeal Monday from a man trying to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and shot down a request from a Trump lawyer who wanted to erase a lower-court ruling that he had probably engaged in illegal activity surrounding his advice after the 2020 election.
The efforts of some on the Right to elevate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a sane and laudable Democrat may now be backfiring, an entirely predictable turn that most people could have seen coming.
If you were told that a prominent governor said that we need “a limit on who can come across the border” and that the border “is too open right now,” you would probably guess it was a Republican, such as Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX).
REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN'S BAD TROUBLE. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) is in his second term as a member of the House. His bio on X, formerly Twitter, notes that Bowman is a "life long educator" and a "former middle school principal" who sees his role as "causing good trouble." The phrase "good trouble," of course, comes from the late Rep. John Lewis, who described his civil rights activism in the 1960s, in which he was famously beaten and arrested, as causing "good trouble" — that is, making trouble for a good cause.
Underlining Vladimir Putin's hope of outlasting Western support for Ukraine, the Russian president's spokesman claimed on Monday that Western war "fatigue" is growing. Dmitry Peskov added, "This fatigue will lead to fragmentation of the political establishment."
The final numbers will not be released by the Department of Homeland Security for weeks, but Bill Melugin reported this Saturday there were over 260,000 immigrants apprehended at the southwest border this September, a number that if confirmed would be an all-time record high, beating President Joe Biden’s earlier record set last December at 252,000.
There have been a lot of stories in recent years regarding the public paying, or not paying, the money they owe to the federal government. For most of the past few years, the media coverage has been told almost exclusively from the government’s perspective, ignoring the fact that people suffer when the government takes their money.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) pressed President Biden on the “untenable” influx of asylum seekers in the state, marking the latest state-level demand for more White House action on the issue. In a letter dated Oct. 2, Pritzker said the accelerating arrival of asylum seekers is “overwhelming” the state’s ability to provide aid to this...