The Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis asking the justices to overturn its 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide. The high court did not elaborate on its decision to reject the petition, but the justices were widely expected to reject the appeal despite significant media attention to it. […]
Nearly 100 faith leaders are demanding that President Donald Trump pressure Syria to stop blocking humanitarian aid to Christians and other persecuted religious minorities in the region. The release of the letter coincides with Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa’s visit to the White House on Monday. The signatories are asking Trump to bring up the […]
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-IL) and other progressives are fed up with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after a group of senators, which did not include the Democrats’ Senate leader, voted with Republicans toward ending the government shutdown. Progressives like Khanna believe Schumer should be replaced as Senate Minority Leader. “Senator Schumer is no longer effective and […]
The Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the legality of counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, which could have sweeping implications for laws in more than a dozen states. The high court on Monday granted the petition to hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, reviewing a Mississippi state law that allows mail […]
President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East and son-in-law met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to presumably discuss the next stages of the Gaza ceasefire as the first stage wanes. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the prime minister’s office said in a statement accompanied by […]
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in the case of a Rastafarian man who brought charges against a Louisiana prison for shaving his dreadlocks, accusing correction center officials of encroaching on his religious freedoms. Damon Landor sued the Louisiana Department of Corrections after prison officials at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center cut his dreadlocks, […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will hold a press conference around 10 a.m. Monday. WHAT DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID ABOUT VOTING TO END THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Johnson’s press conference comes as Senate Democrats agreed to the first step in a series of procedural hurdles on Sunday. The Senate will continue to work to end the government […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), in his capacity as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, is urging President Donald Trump to refrain from granting “any form of clemency” to Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. In a letter dated Sunday, Raskin cited whistleblower information that indicated Maxwell is planning to ask the president to commute […]
A group of Republicans has unveiled a new tranche of legislation to update federal labor law, part of a push to revamp laws to fit the modern economy. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, announced the legislative initiative on Monday. Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), […]
The three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts, ruled against the Trump administration regarding the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The court denied a request by the Trump administration to block a district court’s previous ruling that full SNAP benefits were to be paid to all 42 million […]
