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June 9, 2016
School Board Facing Lawsuit by Transgender Student Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case |
| Good morning from Washington, where the Obama administration wants elementary schools to teach in many languages. Mike Gonzalez objects. The nuclear deal emboldens Iran, a senator tells Josh Siegel and other reporters in a Heritage Foundation briefing. The Senate's top Republican faults conservatives for challenging the president, Philip Wegmann reports. After a transgender student sues to use the boys' room, a school board may go to the Supreme Court. Kelsey Harkness has that plus a video report on another bathroom brawl. |
CommentaryObama Administration Looks to Cement Ethnic Divides With Language Mandate The Obama administration's latest policy statement advises states to instruct early childhood students in home languages different from English, and to help them retain separate cultural attachments. Read More |
NewsSchool Board Facing Lawsuit by Transgender Student Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case "This case is one of national significance," the court document reads. "It directly affects every school district and college in this Circuit that receives federal funding and indirectly affects every such district and college in the United States." Read More |
NewsMitch McConnell Complains About 'Unreasonable' Conservatives, Points Blame at Talk Radio The Senate majority leader said that grassroots conservatives "have been fed" an impossible notion, namely that "somehow a Republican Congress can overcome a Democratic president and eventually bring him to his knees when it's not possible." Read More |
NewsNearly a Year Since Nuclear Deal, Tom Cotton Alarmed by 'Empowerment of Iran' "Over the last year we've seen nothing but the continued aggression of Iran, and the consequences of the nuclear deal with Iran are growing worse," warns Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. Read More |
CommentaryCongress' Proposal to Restrict Legal Proceedings in Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Could Trigger Chaos This would create an incredibly dangerous precedent for troubled state and local governments for whom the option of a stay outside bankruptcy would encourage further fiscal recklessness. Read More |
NewsSchool District Grapples With the Transgender Debate A public school community appears divided over a policy that allows transgender students to use the bathrooms, locker rooms, and other sex-specific facilities in accordance with their preferred gender identity. Watch the Video |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans