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The Pfizer vaccine is now open to the ages of 12-15 with many more COVID vaccination sites open up around the country.

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On Wednesday April 6, 2021, a Pro-Trump mob stormed through our nations capitol.

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Daunte Wright, a 20 year-old African American man, was shot and killed by Officer Potter as she mistaken her gun as her taser.

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After the election ended, Trump believes that he was cheated upon and there was a nationwide rage for Pro-Trump mobs.

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President Biden's Covid-Relief Bill was approved, this granted a stimulus check of $600 and $1400 to many workers around the country.

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Facebook, Inc v. Duguid (19-511) (2020)

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Engel v. Vital (1962)

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Facts and Case Summary - Engel v. Vitale

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Facts A New York State law required public schools to open each day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a nondenominational prayer in which the students recognized their dependence upon God. The law allowed students to absent themselves from this activity if they found it objectionable. A parent sued…

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In a graduation speech, Paxton Smith, 18, of Dallas said the new law, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, was "a war on my body and a war on my rights."

Paxton Smith, 18, spoke out against Texas' new abortion law and the impact she said it would have on women, calling it a "decision that will affect the rest of their lives" that had been "made by a stranger." Credit... Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News, via Associated Press

Paxton Smith, the valedictorian at her Dallas high school, had planned to deliver a speech about the news media at her graduation. But when she got onstage at Lake Highlands High School on Sunday, she instead used her three minutes at the podium to address what she saw as a greater issue: the new abortion law in Texas.

The law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, regardless of whether the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. The legislation, also known as the "heartbeat law," is among the most restrictive abortion measures in the country.

Facing what appeared to be a crowd of thousands, including students, families and administrators, gathered at her school's football stadium, Ms. Smith, 18, spoke out against the law and the impact she said it would have on women, saying that a "decision that will affect the rest of their lives" had been "made by a stranger."

"I have dreams and hopes and ambitions. Every girl graduating today does," she said. "And we have spent our entire lives working toward our future, and without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us."

To scattered applause, she continued: "I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail, I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter."

Like the legislation, which drew support from anti-abortion groups and condemnation from abortion rights activists, Ms. Smith's speech drew strong reactions from both sides of the debate over abortion rights.

The Richardson Independent School District said in a statement that it would review student speech protocols before graduation ceremonies next year.

"The content of each student speaker's message is the private, voluntary expression of the individual student and does not reflect the endorsement, sponsorship, position or expression of the District or its employees," it said, according to The Associated Press.

The speech was covered in the national and international news media, and a video of it was shared widely on social media.

Ms. Smith said in an interview that, as she was speaking, she noticed a woman at the side of the stage "aggressively" signaling for her microphone to be cut off. It was not.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, signed the abortion bill into law on May 19. The measure amounts to a ban on abortion, as many women are not aware they are pregnant at the six-week mark, the point at which the procedure is banned by the law.

The measure will also allow any private citizen to sue doctors or abortion clinic employees who perform or help arrange for the procedure.

Ms. Smith said in the interview that she submitted her original speech about the media to the school's administration for approval. But about 10 days before the ceremony, she was trying to finish an academic project when she kept getting distracted by how upset she was about the law. "I started writing my speech then," she said.

Ms. Smith said that she did not submit the new speech about abortion to the school for review. "It is a controversial topic," she said, "and I think schools generally like to keep themselves away from controversial topics."

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Ms. Smith at the Lake Highlands High School graduation on Sunday. Credit... The Smith Family

Before the ceremony, Ms. Smith spent some time considering whether she should go ahead with it. "I said, OK, I can talk at a rally, but the people there already agree with you," she said. "I thought, there is no better time and place where you are going to reach a group of people from different backgrounds who are going to listen to you."

"I knew that once I made that speech, a lot of things could change for me," she said. "I could be burning some bridges. During the speech I got up there and I was like, OK, we are doing this."

On Sunday night, after she was introduced by her geometry and statistics teacher, Brody Lyons, Ms. Smith approached the podium, filled more with dread than fear.

She told the audience that the law was "dehumanizing," and that graduation was "a day when you are most inclined to listen to a voice like mine, a woman's voice, to tell you that this is a problem, and it is a problem that cannot wait."

"I cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace, when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights," she concluded. "A war on the rights of your mothers, a war on the rights of your sisters, a war on the rights of your daughters. We cannot stay silent."

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High School Valedictorian Takes Aim at Texas Abortion Law

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In a graduation speech, Paxton Smith, 18, of Dallas said the new law, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, was "a war on my body and a war on my rights." Paxton Smith, the valedictorian at her Dallas high school, had planned to deliver a speech about the news media at her graduation.

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Conservative Perspective on COVID Relief Bill

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Conservative Perspective on COVID Relief Bill

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Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy

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Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the public's views of the economic aid package proposed by the Biden administration in response to the coronavirus outbreak . For this analysis, we surveyed 12,055 U.S. adults in March 2021. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of Pew Research Center's American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP's methodology.

Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and its methodology.

As the House of Representatives prepares to give final approval to the Biden administration's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a sizable majority of U.S. adults (70%) say they favor the legislation. Only about three-in-ten (28%) oppose the bill, which provides economic aid to businesses, individuals and state and local governments.

While congressional votes on the legislation have been deeply divided along partisan lines, 41% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support the measure. The bill draws overwhelming support from Democrats and Democratic leaners (94% favor).

In assessing the proposed spending in the aid package, 41% of Americans view it as about right, while another 25% say it spends too little; only a third of Americans say the legislation spends too much money. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to view the spending in the bill as excessive (61% of Republicans vs. 11% of Democrats).

The new national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted on the Center's nationally representative American Trends Panel March 1-7, 2021, among 12,055 adults, finds that a majority of the public (57%) says the Biden administration made a good faith effort working with Republican congressional leaders on the coronavirus aid package.

By comparison, 42% say GOP leaders made a good faith effort to work with the White House on the pandemic relief bill, with a 55% majority saying they did not work in good faith.

While most Americans favor the coronavirus aid package, there are demographic differences in the levels of support.

Three-quarters of women say they favor the aid package, while a smaller majority of men (66%) say the same.

While overwhelming majorities of Black (91%), Hispanic (80%) and Asian American adults (76%) say they favor the economic package, that compares with a smaller majority of White adults (63%).

There are also substantial differences in views of the economic stimulus package by household income. About eight-in-ten Americans in lower-income households (82%) favor the bill, compared with two-thirds of middle-income and 60% of upper-income Americans.

Although a 57% majority of Republicans say they oppose the proposed stimulus bill, there is a substantial ideological divide within the GOP: Roughly seven-in-ten conservative Republicans (69%) say they oppose the economic package, while the balance of opinion is reversed among moderate and liberal Republicans, 61% of whom say they favor the aid bill.

By contrast, there is near-universal support for the economic bill among Democrats: More than nine-in-ten (94%) say they favor the COVID-19 economic aid package.

Among Republicans, there are wide differences in support for the economic package by household income. A 63% majority of lower-income Republicans and Republican leaners (who make up 25% of all Republicans and Republican leaners) say they favor the proposed economic package. By comparison, 37% of Republicans in middle-income households (50% of Republicans) and just 25% of upper-income Republicans (21% of all Republicans) favor the bill.

There are no substantial differences by income among Democrats.

About four-in-ten Americans (41%) say the proposed spending on the bill is about right, while a third say the proposed spending in the bill is too much and a quarter say the amount of allocated money is too little.

While about four-in-ten of those in all income groups say the spending in the aid package is "about right," Americans with lower incomes are more likely than others to say the amount of spending in the COVID-19 economic package is "too little" (and less likely to say it is "too much").

About four-in-ten lower-income Americans (37%) say the bill spends too little, compared with 22% of middle-income and 13% of upper-income Americans. Conversely, 46% of upper-income Americans say the bill spends too much; just 20% of lower-income Americans say this.

Partisans also differ in these views: A majority of Democrats (56%) say spending for the bill is about right, with a third saying it is too little and just 11% saying it is too much. In contrast, most Republicans (61%) say the bill is spending too much.

Reflecting the income pattern among all Americans, within both partisan groups, those with lower incomes are more likely than those with higher incomes to say the proposed spending on the economic bill is not enough.

For example, while more than a quarter of lower-income Republicans (27%) say the proposed spending in the aid package is too little, just 11% of middle-income and 6% of upper-income Republicans say the same. Fully 81% of upper-income Republicans say the proposed spending in the economic aid package is too much, a view held by 42% of lower income Republicans.

Similarly, lower-income Democrats (42%) are more than twice as likely as upper-income Democrats (20%) to say that spending is too little. Still, half or more Democrats across income levels say the level of spending is about right.

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Most Americans support $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid package; just a third say it spends too much

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Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the public's views of the economic aid package proposed by the Biden administration in response to the coronavirus outbreak . For this analysis, we surveyed 12,055 U.S. adults in March 2021.

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Liberal Perspective on COVID Relief Bill

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President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill is unlikely to draw any Republican support in Congress. But a majority of Americans - including many registered GOP members - endorse passing the expansive package as soon as possible rather than seeking a slimmed-down compromise, polling suggests.

Some 62% of likely voters polled by Vox and Data for Progress, a left-leaning think tank, said the notion of passing a $1.9 trillion relief bill ASAP to fund vaccinations, $1,400 direct payments to most Americans, expanded unemployment benefits and a higher minimum wage aligned most closely with their view. They included 80% of Democrats, 56% of independents and 47% of Republicans.

Just 31% of likely voters, on the other hand, favored passing a bipartisan $600 billion stimulus that is more targeted and strikes a compromise between the wishes of Republicans and Democrats. That group included 14% of Democrats, 37% of independents and 47% of Republicans.

Asked what was more important to them, more than eight in 10 likely voters (88% of Democrats, 83% of independents and 77% of Republicans) said "getting Americans the help they need" was more important to them than "passing a bipartisan package."

'Liberal dreams'

The poll of 1,527 people was conducted between Feb. 19 and Feb. 22, prior to the Senate parliamentarian's ruling last week that a $15 federal minimum wage provision did not pass muster as part of the budget-reconciliation process. Democrats are using that process to avert a Senate filibuster by Republicans and pass the bill with a simple majority.

The results came on the heels of a separate Morning Consult poll that found 77% of voters - including 59% of Republicans - said they would support the $1.9 trillion package when it wasn't described as a Democrat-led plan. When the question wording linked the package to Democrats, the share in favor fell slightly to 71% overall, and 53% among Republicans.

"The distinction mattered little" to respondents' level of support, wrote the report's authors; half the respondents were shown each option. The overall poll of 1,992 registered voters was conducted Feb. 26 to March 1.

Republicans have argued that Biden's relief package is too broad and too expensive. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, has called it "too costly, too corrupt and too liberal."

"Whenever their long-time liberal dreams came into conflict with what Americans actually need right now, Democrats decided their ideology should win out," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week.

Despite the lack of Republican support in Congress, the White House has cited polls showing bipartisan backing of the legislation.

The Senate will soon begin debate on the bill, which the Democratic-controlled House passed last weekend without any Republican votes. Democratic senators are aiming to pass the legislation before March 14, when several pandemic-related unemployment programs are slated to expire.

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What do Republican voters think of Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill? Their views may surprise you

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President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill is unlikely to draw any Republican support in Congress. But a majority of Americans - including many registered GOP members - endorse passing the expansive package as soon as possible rather than seeking a slimmed-down compromise, polling suggests.

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In my opinion, I do not believe we should add a new state. It is unnecessary and would possibly create controversy within the history of our country.

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- The process of election votes behind the scenes.
- Understanding more of each candidate and their background running in the election.
- Fulfilling the understanding of all the Amendments.

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- Within the process of creating laws it must be approved by different governmental groups.
- Decisions are based upon a larger groups rather than individual people.
- I understand the different roles of government officials.

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On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, our new President Joe Biden held his official Inauguration Day.

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Poverty and homelessness in our country is an issue I believe needs more attention. In our world today, nobody deserves to be living on the streets especially how wealthy our country has become. I feel as if leaders should step up and take initiative to help those in need.

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Time makes money but money cannot make time.