BOSTON – While the Boston City Council took action last week to ban taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said official travel to the Tar Heel state is unlikely even without a prohibition.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, sparked an outcry and opposition from gay and transgender advocacy groups last week when he signed a law invalidating a Charlotte municipal ordinance that gave transgender people legal access to public facilities such as restrooms that correspond to their gender identity rather than their sex at birth.
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that she met with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland, and she is "more convinced than ever that the process should proceed" despite the GOP leadership's assertion that the next president should nominate the next Supreme Court justice.
"I've just concluded a more than hour-long meeting with Judge Garland. It was an excellent meeting that allowed us to explore many of the issues that I would raise with any nominee to the Supreme Court as well as some of the criticisms that have been levied against him. The meeting left me more convinced than ever that the process should proceed," Collins told reporters on Capitol Hill.
