Toni Preckwinkle Close To Joining Chicago Mayoral Race
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says she is seriously pondering adding her name to the long list of mayoral contenders.
Watch CBS News
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says she is seriously pondering adding her name to the long list of mayoral contenders.
"People are enthusiastic because we're fighting for the issues they care about."
Some pundits had speculated that Pence could be the "senior administration official" who wrote the opinion piece because it included language Pence has been known to use, like the unusual word "lodestar."
A wave of top administration officials condemned the piece and denied authoring it, and Trump called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate who authored the piece, although it offers no indication of a crime.
The protests were popularized by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who recently became one of the faces of Nike's signature "Just Do It" campaign. Mr. Trump has also criticized Nike for featuring Kaepernick.
"This is a consequential moment in our history. The fact is if we don't step up things can get worse."
One of the biggest names in Cook County politics flip-flops and opens the door to running for mayor of Chicago.
Former President Barack Obama launched his return to the political arena, two months before the midterm elections, blasting Republicans for "the politics of division and resentment and paranoia."
Neither Trump nor the White House have identified a specific crime that has been committed.
Obama stepped back into the political fray Friday, delivering a speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He encouraged private employers to also remove the checkbox, so people are not automatically disqualified or are discouraged from applying in the first place.
Warrren dismissed questions that invoking constitutional remedies would provoke a constitutional crisis.
The move angered immigrant rights advocates and is all but certain to trigger a court battle.
Defying rules of the Senate and in protest of the confirmation process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, New Jersey Democrat, Sen. Cory Booker on Thursday released documents pertaining to Kavanaugh's record deemed "confidential" by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
That issue had been the last sticking point in a draft consent decree announced by Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in July.
