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Norms, Senate Power, and the Ginsburg Confirmation
Michael Gerson argues that the Senate abandoned its norms during Ruth Bader Ginsburgs confirmation. He warns that rushing a nominee before an election risks turning the court political and eroding democratic self government. Republicans must resist partisan escalation to restore institutional integrity.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thurgood Marshall
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Jesse Helms
Dan Coats
Indiana
Merrick Garland
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Yuval Levin
American Enterprise Institute
Peigen
Denen
Mitch McConnell
McConnell
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Chicago not just crime talk wrongs and truths
Leonard Pitts Jr urges focus beyond Chicago violence to a national pattern of police killings of unarmed Black people. He cites Be R ashamed Mitchell and Laquan McDonald cases to show systemic failures, argues Black Lives Matter is a necessary, self evident truth, and rejects “Black on Black crime” as a distraction from state violence. He notes reporter contact at lpitts MiamiHerald.com.
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Steven Davis
Laquan McDonald
Jason van Dyke
van Dyke
Freddie Gray
Philando Castile
John Crawford III
Michael Brown
Eric Garner
Terence Crutcher
Tamir Rice
Darrius Stewart
Sean Bell
Rekia Boyd
Antwon Rose
Amadou Diallo
Aiyana Stanley-Jones
Breonna Taylor
Leonard Pitts Jr
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North Carolina Economy Stumbles in August Jobs Report
The August unemployment rate fell to 6.5 percent from 8.5 percent in July, but most of the drop was a statistical artifact. About 100,000 fewer unemployed. only 28,000 found jobs, while 72,000 exited the labor force. Labor-force participation slipped to 57.5 percent, the Southeast’s steepest decline. Job counts show 350,000 fewer positions versus February, a 7.6 percent drop, the worst in the Southeast. GDP first-quarter decline 5.1 percent—worse than some peers, but better than Tennessee. Overall, NC’s recovery appears sputtering with many left behind.
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