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		<title>Majority Of Americans Think U.S. Is Heading In The Wrong Direction, According To NBC News Poll</title>
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		<title>Sinema doubles down on filibuster support, dealing likely fatal blow to Dems&#8217; election bills</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sinema is a longtime supporter of the filibuster. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Thursday that she will not vote to weaken the Senate&#8217;s 60-vote filibuster threshold, bucking her party leaders yet again and dealing a major blow to Democrats&#8217; election reform effort. The comments, which match Sinema&#8217;s long-held stance on the filibuster, are effectively the final...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sinema is a longtime supporter of the filibuster.</p>
<p>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Thursday that she will not vote to weaken the Senate&#8217;s 60-vote filibuster threshold, bucking her party leaders yet again and dealing a major blow to Democrats&#8217; election reform effort.</p>
<p>The comments, which match Sinema&#8217;s long-held stance on the filibuster, are effectively the final nail in the coffin of Democrats&#8217; longshot effort to pass two elections bills over unified Senate GOP opposition.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There&#8217;s no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy,&#8221; Sinema, D-Ariz., said. &#8220;This week&#8217;s harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added: &#8220;But what is the legislative filibuster, other than a tool that requires new federal policy to be broadly supported by senators, representing the broader cross-section of Americans… Demands to eliminate this threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon, shouting that solution to their colleagues.&#8221;</p>
<p>The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday morning combining both of those original pieces of legislation: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. But it won&#8217;t get 60 votes in the Senate, which is split 50-50 on party lines.</p>
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<p>Any changes to the filibuster would need all 50 Senate Democrats on board. With Sinema taking a hard stance in favor of the filibuster Thursday, it appears Democrats will not be able to get there.</p>
<p>&#8220;These bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself. And while I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division affecting our country,&#8221; Sinema also said Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some have given up on the goal of erasing our divisions and uniting Americans. I have not,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve worked hard to demonstrate in my public service, the value of working with unlikely allies to get results.&#8221;</p>
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<p>It is not immediately clear whether Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will still try to force a &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; vote to carve out an exception to the filibuster for voting rights. Such a vote would likely fail, but would continue to ratchet up pressure on Sinema, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and other Democrats who less vocally back the filibuster</p>
<p>But pressure has not worked on those senators so far this Congress, and it appears unlikely to work this time either.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today marks the longest time in history that the Senate has been equally divided. The House of Representatives is nearly equally divided as well. Our mandate it seems evident to me work together and get stuff done for America,&#8221; Sinema said Thursday.</p>
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		<title>Democrats renew court packing calls, blast the Supreme Court&#8217;s final two decisions of term</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>President Biden accused Supreme Court of doing &#8216;severe damage&#8217; to voting rights. Democrats on Thursday expressed their displeasure with the Supreme Court&#8217;s final decisions of its 2020-2021 term, accusing the justices of doing &#8220;severe damage&#8221; to the political system and in some cases re-upping their calls to pack the court with liberal justices appointed by President Biden. One decision...</p>
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<p class="speakable"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/elections/democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats</a> on Thursday expressed their displeasure with the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/judiciary/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court&#8217;s</a> final decisions of its 2020-2021 term, accusing the justices of doing &#8220;severe damage&#8221; to the political system and in some cases re-upping their calls to pack the court with liberal justices appointed by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Biden</a>.</p>
<p class="speakable">One decision was on a challenge to Arizona election laws, including a ban on ballot harvesting. The other was about a California law that required nonprofits to disclose their largest donors to the state government for law enforcement purposes.</p>
<p>The court upheld the Arizona laws – which liberals saw as voting rights restrictions and conservatives saw as election security measures – and struck down the California law on the grounds that it chilled free speech.</p>
<p>Biden weighed in on the Arizona decision in a <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1410648141947412488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that was remarkably critical of the Supreme Court for a sitting president.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-arizona-voter-fraud-protections" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ARIZONA VOTER FRAUD PROTECTIONS</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;I am deeply disappointed in today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court that undercuts the Voting Rights Act,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;In a span of just eight years, the Court has now done severe damage to two of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – a law that took years of struggle and strife to secure.&#8221;</p>
<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the court&#8217;s decision in the Arizona case is part of an &#8220;unprecedented assault on voting rights&#8221; from the court before also tearing into the court over the California case.</p>
<p>&#8220;The decision in <i>Americans for Prosperity</i> further harms our democracy by allowing the suffocation of the airwaves caused by big dark special interest money,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;This torrent of dark money silences the voices of voters and prevents passage of commonsense, bipartisan and popular legislation – from gun violence prevention to climate action to LGBTQ equality. It is fundamentally anti-democratic, and it cannot go unanswered.&#8221;</p>
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In this April 23, 2021, file photo members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinions for the court&#8217;s final two cases of its term. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File) <span class="copyright">(Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)</span></p>
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<p>The California case was called Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, while the Arizona case was titled Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p>&#8220;Having to identify one’s own polling place and then travel there to vote does not exceed the ‘usual burdens of voting,'&#8221; Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his opinion upholding the Arizona laws.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-california-rule-charities-donor-names"><strong>SUPREME COURT SAYS CALIFORNIA RULE REQUIRING NONPROFITS TO REVEAL DONOR NAMES IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Our cases have said that disclosure requirements can chill association'[e]ven if there [is] no disclosure to the general public,&#8221; Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion for the California case. &#8220;While assurances of confidentiality may reduce the burden of disclosure to the State, they do not eliminate it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some Democrats were even harsher in their responses to the court&#8217;s final rulings of its term, lashing with demands to pack the court. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1410605592721313797" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> specifically to the Arizona ruling, saying that the alleged reduction of voting rights stemming from the decision should necessitate adding Democrat-appointed justices.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today’s ruling is another blow to voting rights. We have no time to waste to protect the right to vote. We must abolish the filibuster and pass the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we must expand the Supreme Court.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;And still some people have the nerve to question whether Court expansion is necessary,&#8221; Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., also <a href="https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1410625472661229572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in response</a> to the Thursday rulings.</p>
<p>&#8220;Expand the damn court,&#8221; he also said.</p>
<p>Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., also tweeted in support of expanding the court. And Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has resisted calls to pack the court in the past, said he is at least in favor of Democrats getting rid of the legislative filibuster to counteract the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on the Arizona voting laws.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Mitch McConnell could abolish the filibuster to appoint 3 extreme right-wing Supreme Court justices who just voted to gut the Voting Rights Act, you know what? Democrats can and should abolish the filibuster to save democracy and make it easier, not harder, for people to vote,&#8221; Sanders said.</p>
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<p>Republicans, meanwhile, lauded the Supreme Court for its rulings.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an obvious victory for the First Amendment and for free speech,&#8221; Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said of the California case. &#8220;California’s anti-speech policies were un-American hogwash, and everyone from conservatives like Americans for Prosperity to liberals like the American Civil Liberties Union came together to oppose this bullying and intimidation.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ballot harvesting—particularly when practiced by political activists—should be illegal,&#8221; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said of the Arizona case. &#8220;I was proud to join my colleagues in an amicus brief in support of Arizona’s election integrity measures, and I’m glad the Supreme Court has ruled in favor.&#8221;</p>
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<p>We don’t yet know whether President Trump delayed some military aid to Ukraine as leverage to get Ukraine’s president to reopen an investigation into Hunter Biden. But if we are concerned about U.S. officials inappropriately threatening aid to Ukraine, then there are others who have some explaining to do.</p>
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<p>It got almost no attention, but in May, CNN reported that Sens. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), and Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe. In the letter, they implied that their support for <a href="https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5-4-18%20Menendez%20joint%20letter%20to%20General%20Prosecutor%20of%20Ukraine%20on%20Mueller%20investigation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">U.S. assistance to Ukraine</a> was at stake. Describing themselves as “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,” the Democratic senators declared, “We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,” before demanding Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.”</p>
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<p>So, it&#8217;s okay for Democratic senators to encourage Ukraine to investigate Trump, but it&#8217;s not okay for the president to allegedly encourage Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden?</p>
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<p>And then there is Joe Biden. In 2016, the then-vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Ukraine if the government did not fire the country’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. According to the New York Times, “Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden … who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.” The Post reports that it is “unclear how seriously Shokin — who was under fire by U.S. and European officials for not taking a more aggressive posture toward corruption overall — was scrutinizing Burisma when he was forced out.” But what is clear is that Biden bragged about getting him fired, declaring last year: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b &#8211;. He got fired.”</p>
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<p>This weekend, Biden told reporters, &#8220;I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.&#8221; That is flatly untrue. Hunter admitted in an interview with the New Yorker that his father expressed concern about the Burisma post at least once: &#8220;Dad said, &#8216;I hope you know what you are doing,&#8217; and I said, &#8216;I do.'&#8221; Moreover, the New Yorker reports that, &#8220;In December, 2015, as Joe Biden prepared to return to Ukraine, his aides braced for renewed scrutiny of Hunter&#8217;s relationship with Burisma. Amos Hochstein, the Obama Administration&#8217;s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter with Biden.&#8221;</p>
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<p>So, Biden was fully aware of his son&#8217;s involvement with Burisma when he pressured Ukraine to fire the prosecutor in 2016. He should have known that his using U.S. aid as leverage to force the prosecutor&#8217;s dismissal would create, at a bare minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) announced that Congress will initiate a formal impeachment inquiry over the Ukraine episode, a move Joe Biden endorsed in a speech, declaring, “It’s time for the Congress to fully investigate the conduct of this president.” Such an investigation will be far more damaging for Biden than the president. It will keep the story of Biden’s conflict of interest in the news through the 2020 election. Senate Republicans can demand that Hunter Biden testify, and subpoena Obama White House aides to explain under oath what the vice president knew and when he knew it.</p>
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<p>Put aside the prosecutor&#8217;s firing. Hunter took the position with a Ukrainian natural gas company just a few weeks after his father visited Ukraine in 2014 to urge its government to increase its natural gas production. He had no expertise in Ukraine or natural gas. It will not just be Republicans calling this suspicious; nonpartisan experts in ethics law will testify that this a major conflict of interest.</p>
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<p>And the focus will not just be on Ukraine but also how, as The Post reported, &#8220;for more than two decades, [Hunter&#8217;s] professional work often tracked with his father&#8217;s life in politics, from Washington to Ukraine to China.&#8221;</p>
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<p>While Senate Republicans will not remove Trump from office, Democratic primary voters might decide that Biden and his troubles are a distraction they do not need. The irony is the Democrats&#8217; investigation might do more to deny Biden the presidency than Trump.</p>
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<p><i>Marc Thiessen writes a twice-weekly column for the Washington Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. </i><a href="https://twitter.com/marcthiessen"><i>@marcthiessen</i></a></p>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-impeachment-joe-biden-ukraine-20190925.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-impeachment-joe-biden-ukraine-20190925.html</a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>If there is one thing that the recent controversy regarding President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin proves it is that Republicans will criticize the president, if they feel the need. Contrary to the popular belief (held primarily among Democrats and liberals) that Republicans will not oppose the president no matter what, several...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there is one thing that the recent controversy regarding President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin proves it is that Republicans will criticize the president, if they feel the need.</p>
<p>Contrary to the popular belief (held primarily among Democrats and liberals) that Republicans will not oppose the president no matter what, several Republican and conservatives were critical of the president’s comments toward Russia and Putin &#8211; comments that are now well-known and have a created a firestorm.</p>
<p>Here is what several Republicans had to say:</p>
<p><strong>• </strong>Newt Gingrich (in a tweet): “President Trump must clarify his statements in Helsinki on our intelligence system and Putin. It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected &#8211; immediately.”</p>
<p><strong>•</strong> U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (in a statement): “I am confident former CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, DNI Dan Coats, Ambassador Nikki Haley, FBI Director Chris Wray, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others will be able to communicate to the President it is possible to conclude Russia interfered with our election in 2016 without delegitimizing his electoral success.”</p>
<p><strong>•</strong> Retired Lt. Col. and former Fox News analyst Ralph Peters said (on CNN) that the president “groveled” before Putin.</p>
<p><strong>•</strong> House Speaker Paul Ryan (in a statement): “There is no question that Russia interfered in our election and continues attempts to undermine democracy here and around the world. That is not just the finding of the American intelligence community but also the House Committee on Intelligence.”</p>
<p>And there were many more harsher comments against the president from Republicans and conservatives, but the aforementioned quotes should suffice.</p>
<p>Does the president deserve this backlash from his own? Time will tell, because actions mean more than words, and words alone do not always reflect foreign policy.</p>
<p>However, the reaction from some in the GOP to Trump’s comments about Russia and Putin prove one thing &#8211; that accusations that describe Republicans as beholden to the president no matter the circumstances are not accurate.</p>
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