(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. senators are sounding the alarm over a purported plan by Senate Democrats to dismiss House impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House was expected to deliver impeachment charges this week after voting to impeach Mayorkas in February. They rescheduled for next week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, changed scheduling on the Senate calendar. Schumer has called...
Senators in both parties are warning that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may end up tipping the presidential election to either former President Trump or President Biden, but Democrats are expressing more worries he could be a spoiler candidate than Republicans. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), one of President Biden’s most outspoken defenders on Capitol Hill, said
A TikTok ban would mean Senate Democrats lose a key venue for pushing their terrible ideas on the malleable minds of youngsters.
Nebraska State Senator Switching From Democrat To Republican Over Abortion Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell has announced that he’s switching party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, citing his Christian faith and views on abortion. Ballots for the primary elections are arranged by party affiliation at the Lancaster County Election Committee offices in Lincoln, Neb., on April 14, 2020. (Nati Harnik/AP Photo) Mr....
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena to a conservative legal advocate as a part of an ethics probe driven by reports of undisclosed gifts to some conservative Supreme Court justices, multiple outlets reported on Thursday. The committee sent the subpoena on Thursday to Leonard Leo, the co-chair
A week after the Florida Supreme Court approved an abortion rights ballot measure for November, Arizona's high court followed suit, giving voters a chance to have their say on statewide abortion access this fall. At the same time, both supreme courts allowed highly restrictive bans to take effect in their respective states—supercharging the import of the ballot measures. As Arizona Republic reporters Stacey Barchenger and Ray Stern wrote, "The state Supreme Court's ruling puts a stark choice...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has subtly hinted at the possibility of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stepping down to allow the current Democratic majority to choose a successor.
The Nevada Senate race is now deemed to be a toss-up, making things more difficult for Democrats as they seek to hold on to their slim majority in the upper chamber next year. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted the race from being “lean Democrat” to a “toss-up” on Wednesday, pointing to President Joe Biden’s […]
(The Center Square) – Arizona House Minority Whip Melody Hernandez is dropping her bid for state senate. The Tempe Democrat announced she would no longer seek the position, saying that there are “mistakes” that put her candidacy in jeopardy. “When it was brought to my attention this weekend that I had made mistakes impacting my ability to successfully run for election to the Senate in LD-8, I knew the only right next step would be to take the sole responsibility...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized how the conflict has been handled. U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a first-term lawmaker who has aligned herself […]
An attorney for conservative leader and private citizen Leonard Leo revealed that Leo would not be complying with a subpoena issued by the Democrat Senate Judiciary Committee.
By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Thursday issued a subpoena to a conservative legal advocate they are investigating in response to a series of ethics controversies at the Supreme Court involving lavish travel and gifts to justices. Months after voting to authorize the subpoena, the Senate Judiciary Committee formally