In the 10 o’clock Eastern hour Thursday night, a realization began to set in among Democrats: They were witnessing an event that significantly imperils their hold on the White House, in President Biden’s poor and often incoherent debate performance. In the 10 o’clock hour Friday morning came a pair of Supreme Court decisions that compounded their misery. It was a ...
The Supreme Court on Friday turned aside Stephen K. Bannon’s last bid to delay his July 1 deadline to report to prison, leaving the Donald Trump political strategist and right-wing podcaster facing a court order to turn himself in to a low-security federal prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. The high court’s rejection came in a one-sentence ...
President Biden’s advisers scrambled Friday to contain growing panic among donors, down-ballot and swing state Democrats after his halting debate performance undermined his case that he has the capacity to lead the country for another four years. Biden’s top campaign officials began with a morning meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, where they told members of the campaign’s national ...
During the first presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump eagerly defended himself against criticism he has faced for nearly seven years. Moderator Jake Tapper asked President Biden whether he believed that those planning to vote for Trump were “voting against American democracy.” Biden suggested that they were, offering examples of Trump’s rhetoric that demonstrated the former president’s anti-democratic impulses. Among ...
The Supreme Court on Friday curtailed the power of federal agencies to regulate the environment, public health and other fundamental aspects of American life. The 6-3 ruling, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., could make it easier for courts to block regulations aimed at addressing air pollution, combating climate change and protecting endangered species, lawyers say. Here’s what ...
President Biden is now threatened by the sentiment that brought him to the White House. Democrats came into 2020 traumatized by their party’s 2016 loss and by four years of Donald Trump’s hard-right presidency. The party internalized the idea that the key to beating Trump was doing better with blue-collar Midwestern Whites, and Biden was the natural guy to fill ...
High-profile Democratic officials, including some who have been floated as possible replacements should President Biden step aside as the party’s nominee, have begun weighing in on his debate performance Thursday night. Some of these Democrats have conceded that the commander in chief had a rocky debate night. But they still broadly defended the substance of Biden’s arguments and the policy ...
The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying its head in the sand over Americans’ concerns with President Biden’s age and mental sharpness. Rather than reckon with the problem, its most influential voices have cast it as an overblown media construct. But the party abruptly jerked its head out of that sand Thursday night, after a meandering, ...
Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday, likely upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election. After the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged more than 350 participants in the pro-Trump mob with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding. The ...
President Biden and former president Donald Trump took the stage Thursday for the first presidential debate of the general election cycle, and they are scheduled to face off again in less than three months. Biden and Trump agreed in May to participate in two debates: One hosted Thursday by CNN and another hosted by ABC News scheduled for Sept. 10. ...