The longstanding bipartisan tradition of allowing senators to sink judicial nominees from their home state appears safe for now, despite high-profile setbacks involving President Donald Trump’s hand-picked federal prosecutors. Key Republicans are resisting Trump’s calls to abolish the Senate’s “blue slip” practice on judicial nominees, even after courts determined Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan were […]

The Department of Justice was dealt a setback in the bid to revive the case against former FBI Director James Comey after a federal judge blocked them from using evidence belonging to his former lawyer and law professor, Daniel Richman. Richman, who would have been a likely witness to testify before the Comey indictment was […]

President Donald Trump gave out medals to five new Kennedy Center honorees in a ceremony at the Oval Office on Saturday evening. Trump presented the prestigious award, which recognizes contributions to American culture and the arts, to actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss, and actor-singer Michael Crawford, all […]

The National Park Service updated its free-admission calendar, adding free entry for President Donald Trump’s birthday but removing Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list.  The Department of the Interior announced last month the new free-entry days at national parks, designating them as “resident-only patriotic fee-free days.” Under the Biden administration, NPS […]