President Donald Trump on Tuesday pressured Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to scrap the “blue slip” tradition and push through his judicial nominees. The president fumed over the Democratic Party’s ability to block his “Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys” through the blue slip tradition, in a post on Truth Social. He claimed […]

The United States’s long-standing support for Israel is showing some limits as graphic images and reports of starving and emaciated children dying from hunger in Gaza have shifted public sentiment. In recent days, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other world leaders have called attention to the lack of food in the war-torn […]

A rare and contentious showdown among Democrats played out in public view on the Senate floor Tuesday as an animated Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) sparred with colleagues over passing bipartisan bills to bolster local police forces. Booker blocked an effort by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to pass a tranche of seven bipartisan law enforcement […]

The Trump administration moved Tuesday to keep Bill Essayli in charge of the Central District of California, extending the tenure of Los Angeles’s top federal prosecutor past his expired interim status by naming him acting United States attorney. Essayli, a former Republican state legislator and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, was initially appointed to […]