| No Images? Click here   White Supremacists Keep Beating The Federal Government In CourtA federal judge this week cited the First Amendment in tossing criminal charges against three members of a neo-Nazi organization accused of conspiring to assault their ideological opponents, handing the government another defeat in its struggle to curtail white supremacist violence.The case against the Rise Above Movement, which was investigated by an FBI agent who specializes in domestic terrorist groups, illustrates the difficulty that federal authorities face in prosecuting domestic extremists. There’s no federal law that broadly outlaws acts of domestic terrorism, though a large majority of Americans think there should be such a law. Federal authorities have more laws they can use against designated international terrorist groups, like the Islamic State, than they do against violent white supremacists at home.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been pressing this issue since she began her term in Congress. Watch her fiercely question Michael McGarrity, the FBI’s Assistant Director of Counterterrorism as to why there is not a federal law that designates certain crimes as domestic terrorism. People before power. We think regular people’s stories are important – and we think you do too.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Republicans are angry about Trump's tariffs, but are they going to do anything about it? Many Republican lawmakers say they’re worried about the economic effects of the planned tariffs, which would likely raise prices on consumers and could even nullify some of the GOP tax cuts, according to one study. They also worry that the tariffs could derail passage of Trump’s new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade pact.Former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden reiterated his support Wednesday for the Hyde Amendment ― which bars federal funding from going toward abortion procedures, and which he voted for as a senator in 1976 ― after he told a constituent in South Carolina last month that “it can’t stay.”Pastor casts doubt on White House claim that Trump wanted to pray for shooting victims. The Virginia pastor wrote that the White House called just before the president’s arrival and asked him to pray for Trump as part of “Pray for President Trump Day.”
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