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Laughing Isn't Banned at US Supreme Court. Here Are Some of the Year's Best Lines

TODAY'S TOP STORIES Laughing Isn't Banned at US Supreme Court. Here Are Some of the Year's Best Lines Revisit U.S. Supreme Court dialogue that brought laughter this year.  READ MORE » The Trump Watch 2017 Year-End Spectacular From the travel ban to Robert Mueller's investigation, here are five ways President Donald Trump rattled legal institutions...  READ MORE » Behind Big Law's Wall of Silence on Sexual Misconduct As the #MeToo movement spreads from the entertainment sector to politics and the courts, will big law firms face their...  READ MORE » Trump and the NFL, EEOC and DOJ Clash: 14 Top Labor and Employment Stories Here's a roundup of some of our most-read stories about labor and employment this year.  READ MORE » Gorsuch's Gitmo Apology, Memorable Footnotes and Law Clerk Diversity: 20 Top SCOTUS Headlines Here are highlights from some of the most-read U.S. Supreme Court stories published this year.  READ MORE »  

Trump Is Packing the Courts With Unqualified Conservative Extremists

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28 December 17 Don’t Fiddle While RSN Burns We have many who help sustain RSN with their hard-earned contributions, but many, many more never do. Join those who make Reader Supported News their own. Funding matters. Help out. Marc Ash Founder,  Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611 Trump and Neil Gorsuch. (photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Former Federal Judge: Trump Is Packing the Courts With Unqualified Conservative Extremists By Democracy Now! 28 December 17 ith the confirmation of a 12th circuit court judge earlier this month, Trump set a record for the most appellate judges confirmed in a president’s first year in office. Early in his first year, Trump appointed conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. But legal experts say Trump’s appointments to t

Bernie Sanders | We Need Tax Reform That Benefits Middle-Class Families, Not the 1%

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28 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News DON’T FIDDLE WHILE RSN BURNS - We have many who help sustain RSN with their hard-earned contributions, but many, many more never do. Join those who make Reader Supported News their own. Funding matters. Help out. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Bernie Sanders | We Need Tax Reform That Benefits Middle-Class Families, Not the 1%    Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News   Sanders writes: "The Republicans are so desperate to spin their disastrous tax plan that they have resorted to taking comments I recently made completely out of context. Let me set the record straight."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Michael Isikoff | Mueller Probe Outgrows Its 'Witch Hunt' Phase

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28 December 17 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News NEED TO PULL A RABBIT FROM THE HAT TODAY - We are down but not out. As bad as it looks right now, we absolutely positively can do this if we get on a roll. The key is “you,” not someone else. Donate, folks. We are running out of time. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Michael Isikoff | Mueller Probe Outgrows Its 'Witch Hunt' Phase    Michael Isikoff, Yahoo! News   Isikoff writes: "Now, as Trump prepares to end his first year in office, the witch hunt narrative may have outlived its usefulness."   READ MORE Trump Team Plans to Cast Michael Flynn as a Liar if He Accuses President, Aides of Wrongdoing   Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post   Leonnig writes: "President Trump's legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aid

MASSterList: Booze taxes | Sen. Crighton? | ‘Project Rufus’

Subscribe   Archives   Twitter   Facebook   Instagram This email may be cut off by your email provider. To see today's full MASSterList, click "View entire message" at the bottom, or view the online version  here. By Jay Fitzgerald and Keith Regan 12/28/2017 Booze taxes | Sen. Crighton? | ‘Project Rufus’ Happening Today Student-driver decals, First Night security -- Members of the  House Ways and Means Committee  have until 10 a.m. to vote on a bill that would require  student drivers and junior operators  to display decals on their vehicles. A similar bill passed the House last session. -- Mayor  Marty Walsh  and Boston Police Commissioner  William Evans  hold a press conference to discuss public safety precautions ahead of New Year's Eve and  First Night Boston  celebrations, Eagle Room, Boston City Hall, 1:30 p.m. Today's News MEMA issues warning on potentially life-threatening cold It was cold yesterday when the M