... talk at the conference event followed his appearance at the organization's February summit in Germany, where he ruffled feathers for his comments that free speech is “in retreat” across Europe. Vance addressed that Wednesday and said his comments applied to the U.S. under Democratic President Joe Biden’s ...
... if that's what needs to be done, that's what needs to be done.Daniel Wolf-Shneider, Columbia University Student: The suppression of political speech and the sort of dismantlement of campus free speech and activism isn't making Jewish students any safer. Jeffrey Brown: But other Jewish students ...
... America.” “Jan. 6 was a tragic day but it became a triumph of freedom. History will record that our institutions held,” he said in his speech. “Leaders in both chambers, in both political parties reconvened the very same day and finished democracy's work under the Constitution.” JFK’s daughter ...
... sorts. Harris lives in Los Angeles but she is from the San Francisco Bay Area, where her political career is rooted. For her first major speech since the election, she chose familiar terrain and a friendly, in some ways familial, crowd. Lisa Gotbhi, a health care executive in San Francisco ...
The 82-year-old Democrat, who has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, delivered his pointed message during a speech Tuesday at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago.
... the light,’” Booker said. "No, we got civil rights because people marched for it, sweat for it and John Lewis bled for it." Booker's speech was not a filibuster, which is a speech meant to halt the advance of a specific piece of legislation. Instead, Booker's performance was ...
... much safer, easier, simpler route is what a lot of people do, which is they just back down. And for people who believe in free speech and being able to speak up and say what you believe, especially about people or groups that have power in our society, that's ...
... controversial clients, sometimes against our government,” Jaffer said. “The Trump administration has made it clear it will retaliate against lawyers.” Jaffer said attacks on free speech and association are intended to chill dissent by convincing people in the opposition that they could become targets. “All of us are able to ...
In our news wrap Thursday, the House voted to censure Democrat Rep. Al Green for disrupting President Trump's address to Congress with 10 Democrats joining Republican members in passing the resolution, a pair of fighter jets in South Korea accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian area, a hospitalized Pope Francis released an audio broadcast...
... speech up after he handed it to her following his address. "Everybody has to make their expression of how they see things. I think we should keep our focus on the president's speech," Pelosi said. Associated Press writers Matt Brown, Lisa Mascaro and Leah Askarinam contributed to this report.
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