House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said there were no immediate plans to vote on Russian sanctions, indicating the matter would be postponed until after the August recess. “Not right now,” he told Politico when asked if there were immediate plans. However, he also tacitly approved President Donald Trump circumventing a sanctions bill and acting unilaterally […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the Department of Justice‘s top ethics adviser on Friday as part of broader government layoffs. Joseph Tirrell, the DOJ’s ethics director, posted Bondi’s letter announcing his firing on LinkedIn on Monday. In it, Bondi said he was being terminated from his position effective immediately with no further explanation. Notably, his […]
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) will be evicted from his Washington, D.C., apartment after failing to pay several months’ rent, records show. Journalist Roger Sollenberger first reported Monday that Mills’s landlord filed papers in court to evict him after alleging he failed to pay $85,000 in rent since March. According to the landlord’s ledger, Mills had […]
Democrats are taking advantage of the war breaking out between Republicans over the files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, putting themselves on the same side as President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base, as they call for the files’ release. The GOP is fracturing over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, causing […]
The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s first judicial nominee of his second term, a notably slower pace than at the same point in his first term or former President Joe Biden’s. The Senate voted 46-42 to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The vote was along party lines. Hermandorfer leads […]
The Justice Department appealed a district court ruling Monday that restricts federal immigration authorities’ ability to make arrests and stops targeting suspected illegal immigrants, accusing the lower court of violating the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on universal injunctions. In an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, DOJ lawyers accused Judge […]
The Justice Department on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Ghislaine Maxwell’s high-profile appeal, arguing that the convicted sex trafficker is not shielded by a decades-old plea deal between federal prosecutors in Florida and Jeffrey Epstein. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief opposing Maxwell’s petition, which claims the government violated a nonprosecution agreement that promised not to charge Epstein’s […]
Former Biden aide Stefanie Feldman was revealed as the manager of the White House autopen as investigations into the former administration continue. Feldman, a longtime staffer for Biden, was revealed to be the operator of the autopen as multiple investigations have been launched by the GOP to investigate if the former president knew what the autopen was […]
Tucker Carlson said FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino got “completely shafted” by the Trump administration’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, saying it dinged Bongino’s image among the former podcast host’s fans. President Donald Trump sought to quell rumblings that the FBI deputy director could leave the administration over the weekend, as reports stated Bongino was considering […]
Comedian Bill Maher pushed back against actor John Leguizamo’s defense of increased immigration during a heated exchange on the latest episode of Maher’s podcast Club Random, challenging the notion that America has an unlimited capacity to absorb new immigrant arrivals. “There’s plenty of room in America,” the actor said. “Come on. There’s no lack of […]
