Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) pleaded with his fellow Senators to see past the “media noise” behind President-elect Donald Trump’s appointees and nominate them. Trump’s decision to name Fox anchor Pete Hegseth as his Defense Secretary and former Department of Defense chief of staff Kash Patel as the FBI director prompted negative press about the two. […]
The Supreme Court Wednesday morning appeared skeptical of striking down a Tennessee law barring minors from undergoing transgender procedures. After contentious oral arguments, the justices are left with the task of determining whether Tennessee’s law discriminates on the basis of sex or it regulates medical treatment within traditional state authority. Still, the majority of justices […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered to turn over all communication with special counsel Jack Smith and the now disbanded House Jan. 6 committee to the conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch. On Tuesday, Willis lost a case against Judicial Watch after the group brought a lawsuit against her office in March after it […]
In Arizona and Missouri, new lawsuits could strike down abortion rules voters said they wanted added to their state constitutions. In the Grand Canyon State, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, on Tuesday is seeking to wipe the law that bans abortions after 15 […]
“America’s worst mayor” Tiffany Henyard lost her nomination bid to retain her position as Thornton Township supervisor on Tuesday night. The Democratic Party Caucus voted against Henyard’s nomination because she did not have a full slate of leaders, including highway director, clerk, assessor, and four trustees, on her ticket. She did not have a certified […]
A bill from Montana legislators that would require transgender lawmakers to use the bathroom of their biological sex failed to pass the state House Rules Committee. Montana has just one transgender state lawmaker, Democrat Zooey Zephyr. The bathroom bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. Jerry Schillinger, was introduced shortly after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced […]
Supreme Court justices on Wednesday used the preferred honorific of the first openly transgender-identifying person to argue before the high court during oral arguments in a landmark case on the ability of states to regulate hormone-based therapies for minors with gender dysphoria. Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT & HIV Rights […]
Talk show host Bill Maher suggested he’d rather quit his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher than cover more news surrounding President-elect Donald Trump. Maher admitted to actress Jane Fonda on his Club Random podcast Sunday that he felt like “s***ing my pants” ahead of Trump taking office in January. “I mean, I may […]
The FBI is investigating after New Jersey residents reported seeing unidentified and unmanned aircraft hovering in the skies. People in the Garden State’s Morris and Somerset counties, where President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course is located, have been notifying law enforcement since November about the mysterious flying objects, which are larger than typical hobbyist drones. […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of there being “HELL TO PAY” if Hamas does not release the Israeli hostages by his inauguration was welcomed by the father of one of the hostages. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son, Sagui Dekel-Chen, is among the hostages, told the Washington Examiner that he remains optimistic about a possible ceasefire deal that […]
