President Joe Biden slipped up during his joint press conference with the prime minister of Japan, saying he’s “in the 20th century” before quickly correcting himself to say 21st. Biden was answering a question on the Arizona state supreme court ruling that brought back an 1864 abortion law. “What do you say to the people […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s use of a high-dollar federal grant her office received in recent years has come under scrutiny after a whistleblower accusation surfaced that suggested Willis may not have used the funds for their original purpose. Willis is now facing requests from the Department of Justice and Congress to address certain […]
Civil rights activists were shot down when they tried to divert attention away from recovery and repair efforts to focus on renaming the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The Caucus of African American leaders released a unanimous resolution calling to rename the fallen bridge, but Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) is solely focused on […]
A majority of Democrats have joined with Republicans and independents in decrying the Biden border crisis, adding to the building pressure on the White House to fix its three years of immigration blundering. Just one day after revealing data showing that people believe the immigration disaster is President Joe Biden’s way of building a “permanent […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked the top officials at the Department of Justice and FBI on Wednesday to testify at a pair of summer hearings as part of Congress’s annual oversight of the agencies. Jordan requested Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray appear on July 24 and June 26, […]
Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) seemed to endorse the idea that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations for the injustices of slavery. During an interview with The Black Lawyers’ Podcast, Crockett said she heard the idea of exempting taxes for black Americans from a celebrity. She said it […]
Hard-line House Republicans tanked a procedural rule vote that would begin debate on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, effectively leaving the House at a standstill just nine days before the key surveillance law expires. Republican leaders hoped to advance the FISA reform on Wednesday, but the measure failed after 19 Republicans […]
The cast of the film Civil War claimed that this new movie is a political one, but not one adhering to a specific agenda. Directed by Alex Garland, the plot is centered on a Civil War taking place within the United States in the near future, during which four journalists travel to Washington, D.C. to […]
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) vetoed a comprehensive crime bill, citing the increased cost of incarceration as one of the key reasons for disapproving of the legislation. “The legislature chose to include these good policies with dozens of other measures in one unwieldy bill that would criminalize homelessness and significantly increase incarceration costs without any additional […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas relented for the first time while under oath before Congress that the southern border was in a state of “crisis,” an admission that shocked even Republicans. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) asked Mayorkas about the border during Mayorkas’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since being impeached in February and appeared stunned […]
