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Bill Clinton bristles at questions on Lewinsky, #MeToo

Bill Clinton bristles at questions on Lewinsky, #MeToo

Former President Bill Clinton says the #MeToo movement is overdue. Just don't ask him about Monica Lewinsky. In an interview with NBC's "Today Show" released Monday, Clinton bristled at questions over whether he should have resigned 20 years ago over his sexual relationship with the White House intern and whether the #MeToo movement has changed his perspective.


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Aide: EPA’s Pruitt sought used Trump hotel mattress

Aide: EPA's Pruitt sought used Trump hotel mattress

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt had a top aide seek a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel and perform other personal chores for him, according to an email and testimony from the aide released Monday. The account from Pruitt scheduling director Millan Hupp is in a letter House Democrats sent Monday to Oversight committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. Hupp appeared before a panel of House oversight committee staffers earlier this month.


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Justices side with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake

Justices side with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake

The Supreme Court ruled Monday for a Colorado baker who wouldn't make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in a limited decision that leaves for another day the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gay and lesbian people. The justices' decision turned on what the court described as anti-religious bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission when it ruled against baker Jack Phillips. The justices voted 7-2 that the commission violated Phillips' rights under the First Amendment.


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Supreme Court Tosses Gay-Bias Finding Against Wedding-Cake Baker

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a finding that a Colorado baker illegally discriminated when he refused to make a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. A seven-justice majority said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission finding in the baker's case was tainted by animus toward religion. "The commission's hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment's guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion," Kennedy wrote.


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