Author: Michael

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in two parts in 2022. In the winter of 1935, a freshman senator from Missouri arrived in the District of Columbia after having driven cross-country for over 1,000 miles. With almost no legislative experience or friends in Washington, he was, in his own words, “green as grass,” and as “timid as a country boy arriving on the campus of a great university for the first year.” One day, shortly after the nervous Missourian’s arrival, J.

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A federal judge’s order for the Department of Veterans Affairs to build more than 2,500 new units of housing on its West Los Angeles campus has been put on hold for several months after an appeals court issued a stay.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals extended a previously granted temporary stay at the end of November. The appeals court set a hearing on the matter for April 2025, effectively halting any construction of new housing ordered by Carter until then at the absolute earliest. 
The stay puts a stop, at least for the next several months, to federal district Judge David. O.

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