(The Center Square) – California Democrats are adding “poison pills” to block their package of anti-crime bills from taking effect if the newly ballot-qualified reform measure for Proposition 47 passes in November. Prominent Democrats have withdrawn their support for the anti-crime bills for the forceful addition of the poison pills, claiming the clauses are “political posturing.” The measure, […]
(The Center Square) — Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed another $30 million to boost fire companies and emergency medical services, but legislators are concerned about how state leaders want to divvy up the money. During a Wednesday House hearing of the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee, Deputy State Fire Commissioner J.C. Tedorski laid out […]
(The Center Square) – A new study claims that lawsuit abuse is threatening the Illinois economy and making life more expensive for every Illinois resident. The group Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse reports in 2023, excessive tort litigation cost over 215,000 jobs in Illinois, and cost state and local governments more than $2 million in lost revenue. “When the state […]
Ahead of the Republican National Convention, House Republicans are preparing for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump to win back the White House in November. GOP lawmakers are set to meet with the former president on Thursday to discuss summer plans on the campaign trail as well as a 2025 agenda, preparing ahead of time in […]
There will be notable absences on Thursday when presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump meets with Senate Republicans in Washington, D.C., for the first time since leaving the White House. Some centrist Republican senators who oppose the former president told the Washington Examiner they plan to skip the meeting due to unspecified scheduling conflicts, much […]
The future of the administrative state hangs in the balance. Supreme Court justices will soon decide in a pair of cases whether to reverse a decades-old precedent known as the Chevron deference that would curb federal agencies’ power to regulate everything from Wall Street to the stove in your kitchen. This Washington Examiner series will look at how a […]
A defense attorney in the trial of a famous rapper asked Judge Ural Glanville on Wednesday to recuse himself from the case over allegations the judge tampered with a witness. Glanville denied his request on the spot. It was the latest twist in Young Thug’s trial, which has transformed into a drama playing out in […]
President Joe Biden is abroad for the second time in as many weeks, this time for the Group of Seven summit as he and other world leaders deal with a war in Ukraine and another between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. But Biden is also in Italy as his family contends with the personal and […]
Anti-Israel protesters at California State University, Los Angeles, barricaded the Student Services building on Wednesday, leaving the school’s president trapped in her office. A faction of protesters broke off from a campus encampment to demonstrate in front of the university’s Student Services building, ABC 7 reported. They proceeded to pile up numerous objects in front […]
Fulton County prosecutors asked a Georgia appellate court to dismiss Donald Trump‘s appeal of a state court ruling that allowed District Attorney Fani Willis (D) to continue prosecuting the criminal racketeering case against the former president and his allies. Assistant Fulton County District Attorney Donald Wakeford asked the Georgia Court of Appeals late on Wednesday to dismiss the […]
