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“I’m very gratified that the judge today recognized that that is flagrantly illegal, that it violates the clear language of the Home Rule Act 0.900

👤 Brian L. Schwalb 📋 News Article 🏷️ Legal , Government

Simplified: Judge recognized the action as flagrantly illegal violating the Home Rule Act.

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The trouble is that they don’t show up at the polls nearly as much as those with money. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party

Simplified: Poor Americans don't show up at polls as much as those with money.

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Most poor Americans still vote Democratic. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party

Simplified: Most poor Americans still vote Democratic.

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“The local policing of our city sits with the mayor and the chief of police, notwithstanding the government, the president and the attorney general’s efforts to suggest that they had taken control of... 0.900

👤 Brian L. Schwalb 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: Local policing sits with the mayor and police chief.

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One of the Democratic Party’s primary concerns right now, headed into the midterms and then the 2028 elections, is how to regain its footing among the working-class voters who have drifted toward the... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party

Simplified: Democratic Party's primary concern is regaining footing among working-class voters.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city’s attorney general, Brian L. Schwalb, hailed the outcome even as lawyers were still racing inside to make the final revisions to Ms. Bondi’s order. 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government

Simplified: Mayor Muriel Bowser and Brian L. Schwalb hailed the outcome.

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Meanwhile, campaign promises that do have mass appeal — whether they are from Mr. Trump, Senator Bernie Sanders or the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — are often vetted and laughed out of t... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party

Simplified: Campaign promises with mass appeal are often dismissed by Democratic Party leaders.

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But it cut out a provision naming Mr. Cole the city’s “emergency police commissioner,” a role that appeared to usurp the authority of Pamela A. Smith, the city’s police chief, to command the force and... 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: Provision naming Terry Cole emergency police commissioner was cut.

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You get this mishmash of policies that are technically more rigorous than what Republicans offer. 0.700

👤 Timothy Shenk 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party , Republican Party

Simplified: Democratic policies are technically more rigorous than Republican policies.

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By embracing a high-minded, technical style of governance, the party has diminished its ability to excite the public with ideas that tangibly affect people’s lives. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party

Simplified: Democratic Party diminished ability to excite public by embracing technical governance.

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The document agreed to on Friday preserved many elements of the order released on Thursday by Attorney General Pam Bondi, including authorizing Mr. Cole to “direct the mayor to immediately provide” la... 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: Document authorized Terry Cole to direct the mayor for law enforcement.

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But they left in place most of the structure of the federal takeover, maintaining less intrusive federal oversight of the police department and leaving federal agents and National Guard members free t... 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: Federal takeover structure remained with less intrusive oversight.

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The judicial threat and lightning negotiation session that followed presented the first major setback for the Trump administration in its rapid campaign to seize control of law enforcement in the nati... 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: Judicial threat was a setback for Trump administration's law enforcement campaign.

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But in order to regain power, Democratic leaders may have to decide how much they can afford to keep fussing over these judgments. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Democratic Party

Simplified: Democratic leaders may have to decide how much to fuss over judgments to regain power.

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Last year, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a former high school teacher, was the first to break the streak. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Gov Tim Walz broke the streak of lawyers in the Democratic party last year.

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Lawyers, the people literally trained on rules and procedure, had become so dominant in the Democratic Party that every presidential and vice-presidential nominee on the ticket since Jimmy Carter in 1... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Lawyers became dominant in the Democratic Party every nominee since Jimmy Carter in 1976 attended law school.

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Under pressure from Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, who pledged to intervene unless the administration retracted its move to insert an ally as the head o... 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Legal , Government

Simplified: Judge Ana C. Reyes pressured the Justice Department to rescind part of an order.

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In place of the old order, which had given absolute control over the city’s police department to Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, lawyers hastily drafted a revised version. 0.900

👤 Zach Montague 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law Enforcement

Simplified: Lawyers drafted a revised order replacing one giving control to Terry Cole.

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During the Obama administration, this version of democracy seemed to involve an unyielding faith in bipartisanship, even as Republicans were growing fiercer in their tactics. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government

Simplified: Obama administration's democracy involved faith in bipartisanship as Republicans grew fiercer.

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Perhaps no example was more telling than Senator Mitch McConnell’s successful gambit in 2016 to block Mr. Obama from nominating Merrick Garland — chosen because the president believed his moderate vie... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Mitch McConnell blocked Obama from nominating Merrick Garland to Supreme Court in 2016.

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