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The policy “represents one of the most caustic, corrosive and chilling efforts to squelch the voice of this commission, the office of inspector general and the Sybil Brand Commission,” Johnson said.

If so, such a ruling could squelch discrimination claims from Black and Latino lawmakers in Texas or elsewhere — further clearing the path for partisan gerrymandering.

And while some have called for more transparency, conservatives in the House of Representatives have repeatedly squelched Democratic attempts to mandate the release of all remaining Epstein files.

Hnath’s sequel, without squelching the politics, picks up the forgotten human story of Ibsen’s indelible classic.

Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.