The midterm elections are top of mind for Senate Republicans waiting on Justice Samuel Alito to decide whether he will step down from the Supreme Court in the coming weeks. Alito, one of the six justices who make up the high court’s conservative majority, prefers that a GOP president appoint his successor after 20 years […]

Rep. Clay Fuller (R-GA) was sworn in to the lower chamber Tuesday to finish out the rest of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s term. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) swore in the Georgia freshman shortly after the House returned to Washington from a two-week recess. Fuller, a former district attorney, won the special election to replace […]

The immigrant who was shot and wounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California last week has been hit with a federal charge of assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California announced the charge in the unsealed criminal complaint ahead of his court appearance on […]

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is facing mounting pressure from Republican and conservative advocates to investigate Danco Laboratories, the primary distributor of the abortion drug mifepristone, as scrutiny intensifies over the drug’s safety and regulatory oversight. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is leading that effort, penning a letter Tuesday to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche asking […]