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A state District Court judge in Santa Fe issued Wednesday a temporary restraining order against the license residency verification program for foreign nationals. The matter is still under review, but District Court Judge Sarah Singleton cited, “Irreparable injury will occur in the form of constitutional deprivations” if the program were to continue. The Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and Albuquerque law firm Freedman Boyd filed suit last week on behalf of four state legislators and a Silver City woman

Several months after he became the leading Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has won the endorsement

One of the interesting sidebars in the NY-23 race is the conservative attack on GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava for running (in previous elections) on the Working

The proposal to tax private-equity managers’ fees as income rather than at the lower capital gains rate -- known as carried interest -- has been one of the

Matt Bai has an interesting piece on post-racial candidates in today’s New York Times: What’s notable about Ms. Haley’s campaign, like that of Mr. Obama

It comes in the course of a good Laura Rozen story about the differences in style and results between embattled Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work permits, said U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday.

Imagine my delight when dishonest reporter Steve Hayes cited as another example of journalistic sanity on the Saddam/Al Qaeda lie... dishonest reporter Jeff

The NARAL Pro-Choice America logo (Pic via naral.org ) NARAL Pro-Choice America, a national reproductive rights group, announced today that it sent a letter to President Obama denouncing a federal agency’s recent decision to overrule an FDA request to expand access to Plan B, or the morning after pill, to young women under the age of 17.

The “ glitterbombs ” that have targeted Michele and Marcus Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty were taken to the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday when Minnesota For Marriage, a group that opposes rights for same-sex couples, was showered with glitter from the fair’s Skyride. The glitterbomb phenomenon, homegrown in Minnesota, has also secured a place in pop culture.

In my last post, I asked what it means to disrupt and defeat al-Qaeda, which President Obama said in his speech was the goal in Afghanistan-Pakistan. Denis

The Washington City Paper, which covers the DC arts scene like no one else but generally shies away from national politics, has a Gonzo-style double feature

Perhaps the strangest element of Capitol Hill’s months-long health reform debate has been that Democrats -- proposing to cover tens of millions of uninsured

While Republicans and Democrats in Congress wrangle over a continuing resolution to keep the federal government working, HIV/AIDS activists are bracing for cuts and discussing president Obama’s proposed 2012 budget. # An AIDS Institute press release this week praised Obama’s plan: # The budget President Obama proposed yesterday for fiscal year 2012 maintains his Administration’s commitment to domestic and global HIV/AIDS programs, and proposes increases for domestic AIDS medications and HIV prevention, along with research at the National Institutes of Health

Six GOP presidential candidates will clash Wednesday afternoon in a first-of-its-kind Twitter debate hosted by a national tea party organization. Participating candidates are U.S

Republicans in the Minnesota Senate introduced three bills on Tuesday that aim to put a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage before voters in 2012. Minnesota law already outlaws same-sex marriage

The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that a Las Cruces woman received a bill for $1,122 from Memorial Medical Center for a cavity body search ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency that turned up no illegal substances. A “reliable source” told the agency that the woman, who has no criminal record in New Mexico, was concealing up to an ounce of heroin.

Reports that presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann suffers from migraine headaches blazed across the internet like wildfire Tuesday, with everyone from bloggers to mainstream media pundits weighing in on whether the affliction could hinder the Minnesota Republican’s ability to perform if elected. One conservative heavy-hitter says it could be a “gamechanger,” while some on the left posit that the news — put out in a piece by Tucker Carlson’s site The Daily Caller that relies primarily on anonymous sources — is part of a smear campaign by another GOP candidate. And a reporter for ABC was shoved by Bachmann’s handlers when he pressed her for answers on Tuesday afternoon