Justice Kennedy is a moderate and a champion for the gay rights movement. President Trump will likely replace him with a staunch conservative, which would fundamentally shift the culture of the court.
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Corps of Engineers halts cleanup after workers discover buried DDT-tainted junk
The Army Corps of Engineers last fall halted cleanup of fuel-tainted soil near Birch Lake, about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, when workers uncovered buried junk that included barrels with residues of a different contaminant – the banned pesticides DDT and chlordane.
Judge bars migrant family separations, orders return of children within 30 days
The federal court ruling in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union also states that children under the age of 5 must be reunited with families within two weeks.
Trump says King Cove road ‘almost completed’
President Trump on Tuesday asserted the controversial King Cove road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge will be finished soon. It hasn’t begun.
About 600,000 children in Mexico were born in U.S. but struggle to claim citizenship
In Mexico alone, there are about 600,000 children who were born in the U.S. About half of them are stuck in a complicated bureaucratic loop. If they tried to enter the U.S., they would be turned back.
Defense secretary highlights Alaska’s strategic military role during Eielson visit
The U.S. military increasingly relies on Alaska, the defense secretary said Monday, both to provide a base of operations to maintaining dominance of the Indian and Pacific oceans to the south and to enable the Coast Guard and Navy to maintain control of U.S. Arctic waters, to the north.
Pentagon will build 2 more temporary camps to house migrants
The news comes one week after President Trump said, “The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility.”
Power lunch: U.S. senators transfixed by Bear Cam
This week, it was Sen. Dan Sullivan’s turn to host a state-themed lunch for Republican senators. Naturally, they watched Katmai Bear Cam.
Emails raise questions about Interior Secretary Zinke’s link with oil executive
Congressional Democrats and a public watchdog group are calling for an ethics investigation into the secretary over a land deal between the Zinke family and oil and gas company Halliburton.
What they mean when they say ‘immigration problem’
A day after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to stop separating families caught crossing the southern border, members of Congress are scrambling to figure out what to do with subsequent families who make the journey to the United States.