Amid the conclusion of the Amy Coney Barrett hearings along with the general election taking place in less than three weeks, Senator Chuck Schumer (D) took to Twitter to announce that he is “forcing a vote tonight to adjourn the Senate until after the November election.”
A dark cloud that has loomed over former Vice President Joe Biden’s (D) campaign has been Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals and his board membership in Burisma, an energy firm in Ukraine.
Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) is up for reelection in November, and both his Republican base and his Republican colleagues have shown their support for the Senator’s reelection. His opponent, MJ Hegar (D), however, is facing difficulty in uniting members of her party to support her candidacy after her Democratic rival, Texas State Sen. Royce West told the Austin American-Statesman that he did not plan on voting on Hegar in the November election.
Amidst mounting criticism, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is praising a Texas court’s ruling that each county in the state will only have one location for people to drop off their mail-in ballots ahead of the November 3rd general election.
In his bid for Texas’ 10th congressional district, Mike Siegel (D) is hoping to turn the seat blue in the upcoming 2020 election. However, while the environment has been an important topic in his election platform, Siegel is now facing criticism over a. 2015 case when he was representing the City of Austin. In his time in office, the city was sued for causing damage to wetlands along the Colorado river.
Republican Beth Van Duyne and Democrat Candace Valenzuela are both looking to claim the seat, and a new advertisement from the Van Duyne campaign is slamming Valenzuela, arguing that she would be dangerous for energy jobs in the state.
Now, Black Lives Matter supporters are continuing to receive criticism after some supporters were caught on camera wearing Antifa clothes and spray painting inverted crosses, Nazi Swastikas, pentagrams, Black Lives Matter and Biden 2020. On a Chaldean Catholic Church, which has a congregation that is primarily composed of Christian refugees and immigrants from Iraq.
Specifically, if anyone is caught causing injury or destroying property in a riot, then the individual will serve jail time. If a person strikes a law enforcement officer in the middle of a riot, then it will result in serving a mandatory minimum of six months in jail. Also, if a person uses lasers to target law enforcement or blocks hospital entrances and exits, then it will also result in jail time.
With the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the political world is reeling from the loss of a trailblazing Justice. Both sides of the aisle have shared their thoughts on the pioneer, citing her years of service and friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia as a model that everyone should follow during these trying times.
Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar (D) is slamming the ICE detention centers because of a reported high number of hysterectomies that are currently being performed at ICE facilities according to a whistleblower.
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