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President Trump, sitting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and First Lady Melania Trump, observes U.S. Army tanks traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue, during a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and his birthday on Flag Day, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

States' rights, but only for GOP states

Heather Digby Parton
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Biden urges SCOTUS on climate suits

Kate Yoder - Grist
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs a bill March 5, 2018, that makes Washington the first state to set up its own net-neutrality requirements. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Washington signs net neutrality law

Keith A. Spencer
Jeff Sessions (Getty/Mark Wilson/AP/Seth Perlman/Photo montage by Salon)

Sessions’ war on pot could backfire

Paul Seaborn - The Conversation
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(AP/Alex Brandon)

House OKs first post-Vegas gun bill

Nicole Karlis

Maher explodes on states' rights

Charlie May
Donald Trump; Jeff Sessions; Steve Bannon (AP/Alex Brandon/Andrew Harnik/Carolyn Kaster)

Why the GOP sides with racists

Thom Hartmann - Alternet
(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

texas goes big fed

Michael Glassman
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Justice Anthony Kennedy (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Kennedy's twisted logic

Andrew M. Koppelman
Joni Ernst (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Joni Ernst's extremist history

Simon Maloy
(Reuters/Steve Marcus/AP/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)

Sarah Gray
Cliven Bundy (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Cliven Bundy: The real moocher

Travis Bruner, Greta Anderson
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Rand Paul (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Paul’s Southern Avenger quits

Joan Walsh
Gun rights supporters stand outside the Capitol Sat, Jan. 19, 2013 in Phoenix during a Guns Across America rally. (AP/Matt York)

Can states nullify gun laws?

Lois Beckett - ProPublica
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