NEWS

The lawsuit, filed just after 3 p.m. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, claims that CNN "elevated false, heinous accusations of racist conduct" against Sandmann and failed to adhere to "well-established journalistic standards and ethics."

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NEWS

House Republicans pushed back at Democrats' proposed net neutrality bill Tuesday, calling it "extreme" and overly partisan, and predicting it will be dead on arrival in the Senate, The Hill reported.

Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Commerce technology subcommittee, called the legislation a "nonstarter," pointing out it opens up the broadband industry to regulations Republicans have long opposed, the news outlet reported.

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NEWS

Theoretically, the Senate could use its confirmation power to keep seats on the federal judiciary – including even the Supreme Court – open indefinitely. Senators could also employ it to hamstring a presidential administration by denying a vote to presidential nominees for key positions in the government.

In fact, that is what Senate Democrats are doing now. Judges are being slow-walked, with more cloture votes being required in two years for President Trump’s picks than all the judicial nominations of every previous president combined since the filibuster was created in the late 1800s. Similarly, hundreds of the 1,200 Senate-confirmed positions in the Trump administration are still vacant.

<https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/12/republicans-to-change-senate-rules-to-stop-democrat-obstruction-of-trump-nominees/