President Donald Trump is racking up a string of courtroom victories that have helped sustain some of his most sweeping second-term policies, even as lower courts continue to block or limit them. The Trump administration’s success in the appellate courts — and particularly before the U.S. Supreme Court — has allowed it to preserve disputed […]

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is drawing rare Democratic praise — and some GOP grumbling, too — over a new rule that has senators sprinting to the Senate floor to cast their votes. Senators now have 30 minutes to make their way to the chamber, or else GOP leaders will close the vote and […]

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) worries about what will happen to people who question the Trump administration, who aren’t senators, and when the cameras are off.  His comments came just days after he was forcibly removed from a room for shouting and disrupting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem‘s press conference. Padilla raised […]

When the Christian Democratic Union won the German parliamentary elections in February, it was far from a reassuring victory. The Alternative for Germany, the nation’s most prominent right-wing political party, had ridden a wave of resentment against establishment immigration policy and anti-nationalism to secure a stunning second place finish. CDU leader Friedrich Merz — now […]