Lawyer who aided Trump subpoenaed by Jan. 6 committee
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has issued a subpoena to a former Justice Department lawyer who positioned himself as an ally of Donald Trump and aided the Republican presidentโs efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.
Congress allocated $19 billion in federal stimulus money to Texas public education, but schools have yet to see an extra dime
For more than a year, the federal government has been pumping billions of dollars into school districts across the country to help them meet the demands of the pandemic. Most states have used that pot of stimulus funds as Congress intended: buying personal protective equipment for students and teachers, laptops for kids learning from home, improved ventilation systems for school buildings to prevent virus transmission and covering other costs.
Scalia โheirโ Barrett may be open to reversing Roe v. Wade
She has never said publicly she would overturn Roe, or other precedents expanding abortion rights. To buttress her legal analyses, she nearly always brought up Scalia, for whom she clerked in the late 1990s. Scalia, who like Barrett was a Catholic, said the Constitution leaves the question up to the states. โWhat Roe v. Wade said was that no state can prohibit it,โ he said. Jamal Greene, a professor at New Yorkโs Columbia Law School, said Barrett could stop short of shooting down Roe v. Wade and other abortion-rights precedents โ and still end up gutting them.