Eliyohu Mintz

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Supreme Court won’t rehear Obama immigration orders case

October 3, 2016

The Supreme Court has declined to rehear a challenge to several of President Barack Obama’s key executive actions on immigration, leaving undisturbed a 4-4 tie earlier this year that effectively killed the programs for the remainder of his presidency. The Obama administration asked the justices to revive the case on the possibility that a new […]


Chertoff to vote for Clinton over ‘hysterical’ Trump

October 3, 2016

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, once the lead Republican lawyer on the Senate committee investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater scandal, will vote for the former secretary of state for president this fall. Chertoff told Bloomberg that his decision to support Clinton over Donald Trump came down to the former’s stronger stance on […]


Clinton pounces on Trump’s tax shocker with new ad

October 3, 2016

A new video released by Hillary Clinton’s campaign alleges that “Donald Trump is a business failure who has gotten rich at your expense.” “That’s what three pages of his tax returns show,” the video wraps by saying. “Imagine what he’s hiding in the rest.” The video, posted Monday morning to Clinton’s Twitter account, follows the […]


AP: How Trump’s ‘Apprentice’ moved from capitalism to sexism

October 3, 2016

NEW YORK — In his years as a reality TV boss on “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he’d like to have sex with. The Associated Press interviewed more than […]


Obama sees origins of Trump’s rise in Sarah Palin

October 3, 2016

The path that brought the Republican Party to nominating Donald Trump as its candidate for the White House began in 2008, President Barack Obama said in an interview published Monday, when Sarah Palin joined John McCain’s GOP ticket. “I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what […]


Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 7 in Virginia

October 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s lead among likely voters in Virginia has grown slightly since last week’s presidential debate, putting the former secretary of state ahead of Donald Trump by 7 percentage points in the battleground state. According to the Christopher Newport University poll released Monday, Clinton leads Trump 42 percent to 35 percent in a five-way race […]


Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I’ll retire ‘when it’s time’

October 3, 2016

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg plans to retire “when it’s time,” the 83-year-old told NPR in an interview published Monday morning, leaving open the question of when exactly she might decide to leave the bench. “And, when is it time? When I can’t do the job full-steam,” she said. Ginsburg, appointed to the […]


Clinton up 6 in POLITICO/Morning Consult national poll

October 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton has opened up a six-point lead over Donald Trump, erasing the New York billionaire’s slim national edge with five weeks until Election Day, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of likely voters. Clinton leads Trump 42-36 in the four-way race for the White House. Gary Johnson garnered 9 percent, Jill Stein got […]