(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...
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for retaliatory strikes against Iran after Tehran launched drone and cruise missile attacks against Israel on Saturday. “Iran has begun launching drone strikes on Israel,” Blackburn said Saturday on social media platform X. “@POTUS — we must move quickly and launch aggressive retaliatory strikes on Iran.” Blackburn's post gives
An elections handicapper moved its rating of the Arizona Senate race from “toss-up” to “leans Democratic” in response to a state Supreme Court ruling reinstating a 19th-century abortion ban.
Six Republican senators decided against signing a stern letter that was sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, demanding an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.House Republicans impeached Mayorkas on their second attempt in February, accusing the secretary of ignoring immigration laws and making "false statements" about the U.S.-Mexico border. The articles of impeachment are expected to be delivered to the Senate by House Speaker Mike Johnson...
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...
(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...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), facing a tough reelection bid, called on President Joe Biden to ban sales of Chinese electric vehicles in the U.S.
Two of Senate Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents this fall were among those who voted Thursday to roll back the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate for passenger cars and trucks.
Senate Democrats are padding their war chests, raising significantly more money than many of their Republican counterparts in the first three months of this year, according to campaign finance records. The Democratic incumbents who are most at risk of losing their seats this November, such as Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Jon Tester (D-MT), posted […]
Democrats appear to have the votes needed to dismiss an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but Republicans plan to make that dismissal as painful as possible with a series of maneuvers designed to slow down business on the Senate floor. The chamber will receive the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, who stands […]
Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He's trying again as a Democrat
By JOHN RABY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat. Blankenship finished third out of six candidates in the 2018 Republican primary for Democrat Joe Manchin’s Senate seat. Manchin decided last