A woman whose son works for a House Democrat told the court that it would not affect her ability to serve as a juror on the Trump hush money case and be fair and impartial.
A group of House Democrats are proposing a bill to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Donald Trump.
In the midst of one of his early morning social media snits, Donald Trump thumped out an all-caps “KILL FISA” insisting that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was used to spy on his campaign. Trump’s timing wasn’t coincidental, as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had scheduled a rule vote on Wednesday to bring the FISA bill up for reauthorization. It’s the kind of thing that should have gone along without an issue. During both tenures of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the number of rule...
Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about
Democrats are the "radicals" on abortion, former President Donald Trump said after revealing his official position on the issue.
California voters regularly tell pollsters that the housing crisis and homelessness are the most important issues to them. Tents on street corners is how most Californians understand the crisis, which is normally viewed as the domain of local politicians. The reality is that much of the funding to address homelessness or housing insecurity flows from the federal government. About 28% of the country's homeless population, or about 180,000 people, live in California. Nationally, homelessness grew...
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has laid it all on the table: He’s staking his speakership—and his cozy relationship with Donald Trump—on aid to Ukraine, and putting his fate in the hands of Democrats. Democrats, in turn, are not going to make it easy for him. In an impassioned speech Wednesday, Johnson argued that getting aid to Ukraine was paramount, even if putting that bill on the floor will likely trigger a move to oust him. “This is a critical time right now, a critical time on the...
CNN’s Phil Mattingly takes a look into former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as it gives a glimpse of what another Trump presidency might look like.
A new ruling today from the Arizona Supreme Court revives an old law and enacts a near-total ban on abortion. Such developments are likely to keep the issue in the front of voters' minds, as will messaging from Democrats.
Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that babies are executed "after the ninth month" as part of his argument against abortion rights. Trump released a video Monday declining to outline a national abortion policy, and instead saying he believed it should be decided at the state level. In that video, he said that people are aborting babies after the ninth month — a claim that has been dismissed by experts.A few hours later, when the Biden campaign singled out pieces of Trump's video, he...
Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) said that former President Donald Trump is normalizing “bigotry” over his stance against illegal immigration. The Michigan lawmaker argued that the United States is a nation of immigrants and that the former president is encouraging people to hold their “bigoted views” against immigrants. Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican […]
Democrats are once again practicing one of their favorite political maxims: “Always accuse your enemy of that which you are doing.”