A coalition of big corporations are laying the groundwork to protect President Donald Trump’s corporate tax rate in anticipation of a Democratic majority in Congress next year. The RATE Coalition, a group made up of 21 corporations such as Verizon, Target, and Walmart, is preparing a six-figure lobbying and advertising blitz in order to preserve […]
Supreme Court justices will hear arguments next week in a landmark case that could determine whether states can sue oil and gas companies for climate change. Although a decision in the case, Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, isn’t expected until next year, the Oct. 5 arguments will provide insight into how aggressively […]
Senate Democrats may have denied Republicans a midterm win by blocking a GOP senator’s bipartisan data center bill, but in the process, they revealed an out-of-sync party strategy over how to handle the increasingly contentious campaign issue. The Ratepayer Protection Act, meant to prevent data centers from raising electricity prices, enjoyed sweeping support in the […]
House Judiciary ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. watchdog and investigative agencies requesting two investigations into the Trump administration advertisements paid for by taxpayer dollars. Raskin, along with Rep. George Whitesides (D-CA), asked the Government Accountability Office, the government watchdog, and the Office of Special Counsel to launch investigations into […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he plans to remain atop the Senate Democratic caucus after the midterm elections, even as several candidates on the Democratic ticket say they would not support a sixth bid from Schumer to lead the party. Schumer has long been expected to seek another term at the helm of […]
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking Georgia’s complete voter rolls, marking the department’s 26th court defeat in its nationwide campaign to obtain sensitive voter information. U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ruled that federal law did not override Georgia’s voter privacy protections. […]
A Texas man who was arrested for posing a “credible threat” to the state Capitol was released on bond Wednesday, just hours after he was first taken into custody. Benny Caldera Jr. was arrested at his home northeast of San Antonio at 3 a.m. on Wednesday after the Texas Department of Public Safety received a […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to move forward after it was halted hours earlier by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit stayed Pike’s execution in the eleventh hour, as judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced on Wednesday that Cornell University President Michael I. Kotlikoff has agreed to allow an independent investigation into the school’s handling of a female student’s allegations that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven fraternity members in 2024. Hochul had announced her intention to have an independent investigation into Cornell’s report […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) dismissed the agreement President Donald Trump reached with top executives of artificial intelligence as “entirely unenforceable.” Jeffries, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, said the “notion of entering into a voluntary agreement that is entirely unenforceable and that allows the industry writ large to police itself is not the right […]
