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...Since Netanyahu’s far-right government unveiled controversial plans to overhaul the judiciary earlier this year, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken part in weekly protests, with leaders from the...
...Similar stories in AZ [Arizona] and PA [Pennsylvania],” Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday....
...accused of improperly trading after selling millions of dollars’ worth of stock shortly before markets crashed in response to the pandemic.Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, Democratic senators from Georgia and Arizona...
...In response, Republicans threatened to block coronavirus funding legislation, while Democrats holding vulnerable Senate seats — including Mark Kelly of Arizona, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Catherine Cortez...
...She promoted the false narrative of fraudulent voting in Arizona, pressing state lawmakers to switch their electors from Biden to Trump....
...In March, Intel said it would spend $20bn on two new fabs in Arizona and would set up Intel Foundry Services to produce chips for other companies....
...A Republican lawsuit in Arizona was also dismissed, while a federal judge appointed by Mr Trump rebuffed an attempt to halt Georgia’s certification....
...It is incumbent on institutions, including the president’s own cabinet, the Republican party, state legislatures and the American judiciary to put their own political passions and preferences to one side...
...Another antitrust case, filed last month by Arizona State swimmer Greg House and University of Oregon basketball player Sedona Prince, seeks similar relief from the NCAA’s limitations on NIL compensation...
...“If you look at the key swing states . . . all of them except for Arizona have noteworthy and important black voting blocs,” he said....
...(FT) Judicial realism There will always be an overlap between politics and the judiciary, and it is naive to believe otherwise, David Allen Green writes....
...Martha McSally in Arizona, Cory Gardner in Colorado and Susan Collins in Maine all face tough re-election battles....
...During a trip through Arizona, Utah and North Carolina, I was reminded (afresh) of the yawning gulf in perceptions of our current political environment....
...Still, Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, the new head of Bureau of Prisons, told the Senate judiciary committee this week that the FBI was investigating the possibility of a “criminal enterprise” in the matter....
...But Debbie Lesko, a Republican from Arizona, followed up on the exchange later in the hearing, noting Mr Mueller’s comments about the OLC opinion contradicted what he had said previously....
...Rarely has a US election been so closely tied to the future of the judiciary. The same applies in reverse....
...It was the day the Senate Judiciary Committee was due to vote on the future of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the US Supreme Court....
...Seated at a desk in front of the Republican senators was Rachel Mitchell, a prosecutor from Arizona with experience in sex crimes cases brought in by Charles Grassley, the committee chair, to deliver questions...
...Mr Kavanaugh’s confirmation hinges on the votes of three key Republican senators: Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona....
...The White House is also worried about Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican senator, who has been a fierce critic of Mr Trump....
...On Thursday, Mr Flake blocked two dozen nominees from advancing from the Senate judiciary committee on to the Senate floor — something he said was “the first real pain” his party had felt....
...The reversal came after Jeff Flake, an Arizona senator and critic of the president, stunned the Senate judiciary committee before a key vote on the judge by saying he would not back him when the full Senate...
...This is illustrated by the party’s primary race in Arizona, where three candidates will vie on Tuesday to fill the Arizona seat occupied by McCain’s state colleague and fellow Trump critic, Jeff Flake....
...Each senator will have five minutes to question each witness, with Republicans likely to yield their time to Rachel Mitchell, a prosecutor from Arizona with experience in sex crimes cases....
...“The most notable part of this report is what’s not in it,” said Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee....
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