Alaska’s Senate race remains uncalled more than a week after Election Day, with former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola leading Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) by 5,800 votes as election officials continue counting absentee ballots and prepare for a ranked choice tabulation. According to the Associated Press, 88% of the vote had been counted as of the […]

Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) is set to become the fourth Senate Democrat who has an identical twin outside the upper chamber of Congress. The other three are Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ). Colom’s brother, Andrew, helped plot the script for the viral “pick another protein” campaign ad that mocked […]

Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) this week downplayed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) influence in his Mississippi race, as the upper chamber’s top Democrat faces growing turmoil within his ranks. Colom’s win against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) was arguably the biggest surprise of the midterm elections. Last week, the New York Times interviewed Schumer for […]

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Thursday evening that Alexander Hamilton was right to call the judiciary the “least dangerous” branch of government, arguing that its limited power leaves it especially vulnerable to Congress and the president. “We are the least dangerous branch, which is not to say that the federal judiciary cannot be dangerous […]