Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul el Sayed sparred over patriotism, the economy, healthcare, and Iran during their final debate Wednesday night, with each candidate spending much of the hour trying to tie the other to a political movement that some Michiganders may find unattractive. The debate was still contentious, but it was notably more […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Democrats sued President Donald Trump and senior administration officials on Tuesday over the federal effort to identify noncitizens and other illegal registrants on state voter rolls, setting up a court fight as the administration steps up enforcement in California. The 44-page complaint filed in Washington, D.C., federal […]
Who exactly was running Wedgewood Polls, an admittedly fraudulent polling firm whose data have appeared over the past four months on the polling sites of some of the country’s top aggregators, and why they pursued the project remains one of the biggest mysteries in Washington just weeks before the midterm elections. Several reports say the […]
EXCLUSIVE – The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was asked to investigate Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) over remarks she made about pursuing people connected to the Trump administration and deterring young professionals from joining it. The request, obtained by the Washington Examiner, came in a Wednesday letter from Mike Davis, founder and president of the […]
A federal appeals court grappled on Wednesday with whether to revive a lawsuit seeking to release Michigan courtroom audio from a hearing in which a judge allegedly verbally abused a defendant, after the state court only released a transcript of the proceeding. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit […]
President Donald Trump is holding a rally in South Carolina Wednesday evening to boost Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) and other GOP candidates down the ballot. Trump is expected to speak around 7 p.m. Eastern at Clemson University’s T. Ed Garrison Arena in Pendleton. The president’s appearance comes as Graham is running in an election to […]
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) on Wednesday waded into an advertising controversy engulfing fellow Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign, putting himself at odds with his Ohio colleague. Ramaswamy, who is challenging Democrat Amy Acton for the governor’s seat, has come under attack from some critics for airing a campaign ad this week featuring Acton’s estranged mother […]
The Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to lift a lower court’s injunction halting border wall construction in Texas’s Big Bend region. Solicitor General D. John Sauer pleaded to the high court to lift a “baseless injunction that halts a major portion of the construction of […]
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee political action committee is reportedly no longer endorsing political candidates or making direct candidate PAC contributions after three cycles of political giving. “Endorsements, direct PAC contributions, and earmarking will no longer be part of our approach so we can expand individual giving and utilize new tools to help our […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) this week faced pushback from multiple Democratic sheriffs after saying they endorsed his gubernatorial reelection campaign in Texas. The saga started Monday, when Abbott announced that 12 Democratic sheriffs across the state were backing his campaign against Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa. Abbott is widely expected to secure a fourth term […]
