President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest personal legal defenders are set to transform into his Department of Justice leadership team and will, if confirmed, face their toughest loyalty test yet as they aim to fulfill Trump’s federal law enforcement visions. Trump’s personal lawyers will fill three of the most powerful positions at the DOJ, while former Florida […]

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) will return to a far more friendly Washington next year as two of his biggest enemies step aside in a historic transfer of power. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is retiring from leadership in January, ending an 18-year tenure that Scott has compared to a dictatorship. Scott will have a […]

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson suggested that his move to leave the Democratic Party last fall should have served as an early warning that a political reckoning was coming for the party of his youth. Many political pundits were stunned when President-elect Donald Trump led Republicans to sweeping wins earlier this month, breaking apart traditionally Democratic […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture.  A policy adviser to Trump during his first term in office, Rollins is the president of the American First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank she co-founded in 2021 that has proposed plans for the president-elect’s second and final term in […]