A federal judge blocked the Postal Service's mail-ballot rule on Friday, finding no evidence of mail voting fraud in the record. Twelve Republican states were in court defending it — and asking to be exempted from the block so the rule could run in their states as a test.
The same Medicaid funding fight, the same legal argument, a different president. Texas hospitals are losing $27 million a day. Parkland alone is out $528,000 a day. The attorney general who won this case once has not filed anything.
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found Paxton left $1.3 million in mortgages off his federal disclosure, valued a plot of land at up to $50,000 that his own business partner says is worth $1 million, and reported no rental income from homes that were being rented.
Andrew Clyde led a brief filed September 4 telling the justices that a rifle's usefulness in war is a reason to protect it, not a reason to restrict it. Fifty-seven of the signers have a report card on this site.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Gill's Ending Restaurant Purchases with SNAP Act targets the $524 million Sen. Joni Ernst's office says ran through the program over two years in nine states. The program he calls a fast-food loophole is a federal option for SNAP recipients who cannot cook or store food. He voted for the $187 billion cut first.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Rep. Dave Min, a birthright citizen, used his time at a House Oversight hearing on Sept. 1 to say that if he says something Gill dislikes, 'maybe he'll try to revoke my citizenship.' Gill circulated a petition last year to deport a sitting member of Congress.
