Congressional Republicans aren’t ready to cede power to President Donald Trump to swiftly install nominees during recesses and bypass Senate confirmation, despite Democratic roadblocks and pressure from Trump himself. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) both defended the pro forma sessions they presided over Tuesday in their respective chambers, brief procedural maneuvers […]
Former Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has switched parties, pointing to debates over Medicaid coverage, immigration, and gun control. The former Republican announced that he is now a registered Democrat in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution opinion piece on Tuesday. He also noted a possible interest in running for higher office in his new party. “My […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a tax-exempt Muslim advocacy nonprofit group, over its ties to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. “CAIR purports to be a civil rights organization dedicated to protecting the rights of American Muslims,” Cotton wrote […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would federalize control of Washington, D.C., if “local youths” aren’t prosecuted as adults. Trump has previously condemned the district’s crime and homelessness conditions and called on its leaders to do better. While the federal government already has some control over Washington, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Council of […]
(The Center Square) – A federal judge has sentenced former contract lobbyist Jay Doherty to one year plus one day in prison for his role in a scheme to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. The last of the ComEd Four defendants to be sentenced learned his fate Tuesday at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. […]
Hunter Biden pushed a false conspiracy theory that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced first lady Melania Trump to her future husband, citing a false claim shared by The Daily Beast last month. Biden sat down for a follow-up interview with Andrew Callaghan on his web series Channel 5 that was released Tuesday. In this […]
Republican primary opponents in the Texas Senate race are flexing their muscles and seeking separate legal consequences for Democrats who fled the state to disrupt a legislative session on mid-decade redistricting. Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a press release Tuesday afternoon that he is seeking a court ruling declaring the seats held by the […]
Missouri Republicans are looking to follow Texas’s lead, pursuing a redistricting effort that would reshape the state’s electoral map to ensure Republican dominance. Speculation began on Monday when state Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, the Republican president pro tem, said Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) was considering a redistricting plan similar to Texas’s. Missouri Republican Lt. Gov. David […]
(The Center Square) – Byron Lewis Black, convicted for the 1988 shooting death of his girlfriend and her two young children, was executed in Tennessee on Tuesday morning. He was 69. Black died by lethal injection at 10:43 Central time, the state said in a news release. The death-row inmate was confined to a wheelchair […]
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday turned a South Park joke about Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a recruitment campaign. Comedy Central released a sneak preview of South Park’s second episode for its 27th season on Tuesday. The Wednesday episode will include a segment on ICE raids, according to the preview. DHS took a […]
