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But many prominent Republicans prefer a policy of avoiding international commitments and keeping a robust national defense in store for any power that directly threatens our territory or our citizens.
The main funding source for Maryland's legal services to the poor has fallen on hard times, and advocates are preparing to seek unprecedented state financial help - even as they keep an eye on a legal challenge that threatens to cut off a main source of funding for such services nationwide.
Yet, the very effort to secure this fair representation of all voting groups threatens both the sense of common nationhood in the United States and calls into question the integrity of individual decision making in democratic elections.
Liberal interest groups and the White House scrambled to find new objections to the larger bill: Among other things, they warned that it threatens legal immigrants with deportation and diminishes their safeguards against job discrimination.
However, Walker Thompson, the head of Bronx Legal Services, which filed a lawsuit on Aug. 5 seeking to block the changes, said the restructuring "threatens our ability to be a good legal services program."