🏛 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court moved one step closer Monday. A final confirmation vote is expected on the Senate floor later this week.
The Senate must only confirm judges and justices who understand the constitution and that their role is to interpret the law as written, not to update laws passed by Congress or to invent new constitutional rights.
Get up to speed on the Supreme Court, the confirmation process, and the role of the courts in a democratic society in our Supreme Court Resource Center.
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In response to record-breaking gas prices at the pump, the White House announced its plan to release 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the next six months. This represents the largest release in the history of the reserve and will take it down to levels not seen since the early 1980s. While this action may provide some degree of short-term relief, analysts predict it will cause even greater problems in the long run. Read more.
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On April 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 431,000 jobs were added in March, falling below job growth expectations. The overall unemployment rate edged down 0.2 percentage points to 3.6%. The unemployment rate for women fell to 3.3%. Both are still below pre-pandemic levels. Despite these gains, we still have a ways to go before women’s employment returns to pre-pandemic levels. Read more.
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Ginny Gentles spoke with a West Virginia mother of four children who is concerned about the quality, inflexibility, and culture of her community’s public schools. Watch the interview on IWN.
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This summer, one of the most important things in your beach bag will be sunscreen.
Can you identify which of the following is not true about sunscreen?
A. Sunscreen should be used — even on cloudy days — to prevent skin damage and cancer.
B. While sunscreens may help prevent sun damage and skin cancer, the chemical ingredients in sunscreens — like oxybenzone and retinyl palmitate — are dangerous and can cause other types of cancer.
C. Sunscreens do not cause vitamin D deficiency.
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 She Thinks Podcast
- New Episode: The impact of America's rising crime crisis with Rafael Mangual, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Listen here.
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- Next Episode: This Friday, Roslyn Layton, an international technology expert, joins the program to discuss the administration's bad broadband plan and the free market way to ensure network investment. Hear it here.
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A Mississippi grand jury indicted a Hinds County election commissioner and local business owner on counts of fraud, embezzlement, and bribery. The indictment reveals the failure to keep accounting in election administration, particularly in the last election when private money — given with little oversight and costing the people the most — was used.
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Congress is poised to consider new antitrust regulations against Big Tech firms. The irony is that the right and left are in direct conflict with each other; conservatives want Big Tech to stop suppressing center-right speech while liberals want Big Tech to do more to censor or even silence center-right voices.
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