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The Republican Legal Assault on Biden's Covid Relief Plan Could Be Devastating for Democrats
22 days ago | By The New Republic
From President Biden's first day in office, when he sent his
American Rescue Plan Act to Congress, until March 11, when he signed the $1.9 trillion economic relief package into law, his top officials and allies on the
Hill were laser-focused on keeping the Democrats' slim majorities on board. But they paid less attention to one potential source of danger: the need to screen out provisions which, after enactment, could give right-wing judges openings to shred Biden's blockbuster reform-just as, a decade earlier, hostile judges nearly managed to shred his predecessor's signature...
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