EXCLUSIVE — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) could face an ethics investigation over allegations the Kentucky Republican is using his high-profile impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden for campaign fundraising. The Democratic-aligned Congressional Integrity Project sent a request to the Office of Congressional Ethics to determine whether Comer violated House rules by soliciting […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got into a back-and-forth with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins while discussing whether or not he would object to the results of the 2024 presidential election. Cruz, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, is one of several Republican lawmakers to speak out against the results of the 2020 presidential election, and […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a South Carolina congressional map accused of racial gerrymandering can stand, reversing a district court that struck down the lines for Republican Rep. Nancy Mace‘s district. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the 6-3 decision in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, finding that South Carolina’s Congressional […]
Three leading university presidents are set to testify before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce at a hearing titled “Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos.” The presidents of Rutgers University and Northwestern University, as well as the chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, will be grilled by members of the committee about […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) has launched an investigation into a Chinese-owned tutoring service that has contracts with schools across the United States and the Pentagon. Tutor.com, which is owned by the Chinese investment firm Primavera Capital Group, provides services to the Department of Defense and has contracts with local school districts and libraries […]
New York City is setting new restrictions on how long immigrants without children can stay in shelters in the city before being told to find their own beds. The city has struggled to deal with a migrant influx, bused in by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), with New York City Mayor Eric Adams complaining that the […]
House Democrats are belittling the House GOP‘s efforts on bills cracking down on noncitizen voting, suggesting it could be setting up for a campaign to undermine the November election. Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress are set to bring up a slew of bills for consideration that would enshrine in law that only citizens […]
(The Center Square) — While the re-election of a state Supreme Court justice and the Fulton County district attorney prosecuting former President Donald Trump topped Tuesday’s primary election headlines, voters weighed in on party questions that may guide lawmakers’ efforts in upcoming legislative sessions. Nearly 64.7% of Republicans voted in favor of a question asking […]
(The Center Square) – An Illinois Senate bill aims to streamline the automatic voter registration process to include applicants for both standard driver licenses, which non-citizens can now obtain, and REAL IDs for those who provide documentation of U.S. citizenship. State Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, amended Senate Bill 496 and said that applicants who present immigration documents will […]
(The Center Square) – The Liberty Justice Center secured a court order temporarily halting enforcement of an Illinois law that Gov. J.B. Pritzker hastily enacted prohibiting candidates that didn’t run in the primary from being slated for the November election. Earlier this month, super-majority Democrats in the Illinois legislature approved and the governor signed a mid-election year law ending the […]
