A.M. Links: Biden Says U.S. Stands With Ukraine Against ‘Humiliating Threats,’ Christie Not a Fan of Colorado’s Pot Policy, Court Orders Release of Targeted Killings Memo

  • Vice President Joe Biden said
    during a meeting in Ukraine’s parliament that the U.S. stands with
    Ukraine’s leadership against “humiliating threats.”
  • Republican New Jersey Governor
    Chris Christie
    criticized Colorado’s marijuana legalization on
    a local New Jersey radio show yesterday saying, “see if you want to
    live in a major city in Colorado where there’s head shops popping
    up on every corner and people flying into your airport just to come
    and get high,” and, “to me, it’s just not the quality of life we
    want to have here in the state of New Jersey and there’s no tax
    revenue that’s worth that.”
  • Sen.
    Jeff Flake
    (R-Ariz.) has praised former Florida Governor Jeb
    Bush for saying that many come to the U.S. illegally as an “act of
    love.” Flake said “having such a prominent Republican speak so
    humanely and unapologetically about the motivations behind many of
    those who have come to reside in this country is good for all of
    us.”
  • A federal appeals court has ordered the Department of Justice
    to hand over sections of a memo
    justifying the government’s targeted killing
    of people linked
    to terrorism such as the American Anwar al-Awlaki.
  • A family is suing a New Jersey school district and its
    superintendent over the use of the words
    “under God”
    in the pledge of allegiance recited by students.
    The unidentified family filed the suit with the American Humanist
    Association, claiming that including the words “under God” in the
    pledge violates New Jersey’s constitution.
  • The confirmed death toll from
    the South Korean ferry that capsized last week with many school
    students still aboard has reached 108.

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