Lisandra Gomez-Tate

5 days ago | 2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate

The late, long-serving Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was known as a deeply intelligent and deeply conservative jurist, unwavering in his promotion of the doctrine of “originalism” in interpreting the Constitution. Or perhaps “interpreting” is the wrong word, as originalism essentially claims that interpretation of the law is superfluous and unnecessary — and that only “application” of the law is required.

5 days ago | 2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate

U.S. Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has been among the most outspoken opponents of President Donald Trump‘s agenda — and especially of how he has moved, through an Executive Order blitz, to implement it in a way that largely bypasses Congress. Raskin, like many Democrats has been churned up in the MAGA “flood the zone” strategy, honing in to criticize one Trump policy only to be waylaid as another move — equally objectionable from his standpoint — emerges from the White House.

1 week ago | 2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate

President Donald Trump‘s “border czar” Tom Homan, the former director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the first Trump administration, is amplifying a press release on X distributed by the conservative nonprofit legal organization Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) titled, ‘Victory! Religious Groups Fail to Block Trump.’ Mennonite Church USA and other religious groups are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for its policy regarding immigration law...

1 week ago | 2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate

A very sober sounding Senator Sen. Marco Rubio faces the camera and gives his assessment of presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016. In an interview with another media outlet just before recording the now viral CNN clip, Rubio had likened Trump to a third-world “strongman.”That is not to say that Rubio thought then of Trump as strong. He emphatically believed otherwise, as numerous statements during the GOP primaries then demonstrated. “A tough guy?” Rubio asked, considering Trump at the time.

1 week ago | 2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took her populist show on the road again, this time to Utah, where the former waitress claimed a solidarity with the working class and excoriated Republican lawmakers who voted for the GOP budget bill that includes $880 billion in cuts at the agency that runs Medicaid. It’s the same bill, AOC told the crowd, that delivers major tax cuts for the richest Americans.