Though Republicans are celebrating a trifecta win following the 2024 elections, the GOP also missed prime opportunities to expand their congressional majorities due to a partywide distrust and outright ban on ranked choice voting. Now election reform advocates like former Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck and Nick Troiano of Unite America are warning the GOP […]
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) capped a year of public discontent over older political leaders clinging to power even in the face of glaring health concerns that people on both sides of the aisle believe signal a need for change. Last week the Dallas Express reported that the Texas congresswoman had been found at a memory […]
The Democratic Party lacks a clear direction following President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory, and strategists and focus groups alike have taken note. While President Joe Biden rides out the rest of his term and Vice President Kamala Harris remains out of the spotlight following her defeat, no Democrat has taken the lead in organizing the party’s […]
Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in Washington, D.C., after developing a fever Monday, according to his spokesman. Clinton’s Deputy chief of staff, Angel Urena, shared on X that the 78-year-old “was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever.” “He remains in good spirits and deeply […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to former Social Security Administrator Martin O’Malley requesting that he testify on telework standards he set for the agency just before his departure. The hearing will focus on the relationship between the rising number of hours that SSA employees are working from home and the […]
A federal judge postponed the trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course, to September, nearly a year after the chaotic attempt on the president-elect’s life. The delay comes as defense counsel and prosecutors navigate the complexities of additional charges and jurisdictional disputes between state and federal […]
President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates has sparked an uproar in the legal and political worlds, with critics calling the move a blatant overreach of executive power. The action, taken in Biden’s final days in office, converted the sentences of those on federal death row to life imprisonment […]
The suspect believed to be behind the automotive attack on a Christmas market in Germany made multiple threats to commit terrorist attacks in the years before the massacre. Taleb al Abdulmohsen, a Saudi Arabian national and doctor granted asylum in Germany in 2016, is accused of driving an SUV through an outdoor Christmas marketplace Friday […]
A spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump expressed his distaste for President Joe Biden‘s decision to commute the sentences of 37 prisoners on federal death row. “These are among the worst killers in the world and this abhorrent decision by Joe Biden is a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones,” Trump […]
President Joe Biden will finish his term with more lifetime appointed federal judges than his predecessor after securing 235 last week, just one more than President-elect Donald Trump‘s first-term total. But while the number may suggest comparable influence, Biden’s judicial legacy has been less transformative than Trump’s reshaping of the federal judiciary for several key […]
