Two Democratic senators are calling on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to take immediate steps to ensure that Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. does not participate in a pair of Supreme Court cases related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Nikki Haley’s bid for the Republican nomination was not as simple as it has often been perceived. It involved a number of different and conflicting motivations: depicting Donald Trump as unelectable, enticing Trump supporters to consider her candidacy and walking the fine line between challenging Trump and establishing her position as his electoral successor. She had to call him out ...
The Senate voted down a bipartisan border security deal on Thursday for the second time as Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) attempted to put the GOP on the defensive on a core campaign issue ahead of 2024. The bill failed 43-50 as nearly every Republican joined a handful of Democrats in voting against the measure. The no votes ...
When former president Donald Trump released a video saying states should decide abortion rights, it was meant to tamp down discontent from antiabortion groups who had been pushing him to support a national ban, as well as from abortion rights advocates angry over his role in overturning Roe v. Wade. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Earlier this month, Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent letters to the heads of various oil companies seeking information about an alleged effort by former president Donald Trump to solicit a campaign contribution in exchange for pro-oil policies should he win reelection. That alleged quid pro quo was first reported by The Washington ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed South Carolina to use a congressional map that a lower court had said weakened Black voting rights, bolstering the political fortunes of Republicans as they seek to maintain control of the House of Representatives and making it harder to challenge districts on grounds of racial gerrymandering nationwide. This post appeared first on The Washington ...
When President Biden addressed dozens of African leaders from Washington at the end of 2022, he declared that the old days of the world’s fastest-growing continent being overlooked by American leaders were gone. “The United States is all in on Africa and all in with Africa,” Biden said, promising to visit the continent in 2023 and build robust relationships with ...
Nearly two weeks into an Israeli offensive in Rafah, an invasion that President Biden warned months ago could be a “red line” for continued U.S. support of its war in Gaza, the administration says that line has not yet been crossed. “If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons … to deal with that problem,” Biden said in ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Thursday that he was calling a special legislative session to ensure President Biden will be on the November election ballot in his state. “This is simply unacceptable,” DeWine said at a news conference. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, on the ballot this ...
NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump sought to explicitly appeal to voters of color in a South Bronx rally Thursday, arguing that shielding police officers from lawsuits would protect their communities from violent crime and suggesting that his policies would better benefit them economically. “I’m going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States ...