Politics & Government

Politics & Government

How One Branch Of Government Can Sue Another

5:07pm February 19, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Stanley Brand, former general counsel for the House of Representatives, about what would happen if the House were to sue over President Trump's national emergency.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders Announces Another Run For The White House

4:47pm February 19, 2019

by Asma Khalid

Bernie Sanders announced a second run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. This time, the Vermont independent enters the race as a leading candidate facing a crowded progressive field.

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Ginsburg, sketched here with the rest of the Supreme Court last year, worked from home on the cases the court heard in January. On Tuesday, she returned to the bench.

Justice Ginsburg Appears Strong In First Appearance At Supreme Court This Year

4:34pm February 19, 2019

by Nina Totenberg

The justice has been recovering at home since late December. She missed January's oral argument days but participated in those 11 cases based on written briefs and transcripts of the arguments.

Republicans Pitch Bill Keeping Court Of Appeals At 15 judges

4:26pm February 19, 2019

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

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N. Carolina Poll Workers: County's Results Counted Early

4:11pm February 19, 2019

by Emery P. Dalesio

Disarray in the administration of the country's last undecided congressional election was illustrated Tuesday when three poll workers testified some votes were counted days ahead of Election Day.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who became an ideological leader in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton, faces a far more crowded and liberal field this time.

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Bernie Sanders Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog

3:20pm February 19, 2019

The Vermont independent became an ideological leader in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. He faces a far more crowded and liberal field this time.

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Andrew McCabe, then acting FBI director, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 11, 2017.

Andrew McCabe: FBI Investigations Into Trump 'Were Extraordinary Steps'

1:36pm February 19, 2019

by Terry Gross

"We don't have a lot of experience with investigating presidents of the United States," McCabe says. "There is not a standard S.O.P. on the shelf that you pull down to say, 'Here's how it's done.' "

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Roger Stone has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday following an Instagram post that criticized the judge in his case. The judge may reconsider her gag order or Stone's bail.

Roger Stone Ordered To Appear In Court Following Post That Criticized Judge

1:18pm February 19, 2019

by Philip Ewing

Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, during which Stone must show cause as to why she shouldn't alter the gag order she has imposed or reconsider Stone's bail.

Study Finds Stark Gap In North Carolina School System Funding

11:59am February 19, 2019

by Neal Charnoff

A new study highlights a growing gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest-wealth counties in North Carolina.

Activists join House Democrats on Feb. 1, 2017 on Capitol Hill to denounce President Trump's travel ban. A backlash to Trump's immigration policies came along with a two-decade shift among Democrats, largely unifying around immigration as a civil rights i

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Democrats Used To Talk About 'Criminal Immigrants,' So What Changed The Party?

10:09am February 19, 2019

by Asma Khalid

The Democratic Party is largely unified around the value of immigrants and against President Trump's policies, far from labor concerns and the party's law and order agenda of the 1990's.

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