Republican Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota has suffered a serious hand injury that could require the amputation of part of a finger on his right hand, the senator tweeted Wednesday. Cramer suffered the injury during while doing yard work over the weekend, and required immediate surgery. Cramer clarified that …
Read More »Former Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt to testify before Jan. 6 select committee
Former Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt will testify before the Jan. 6 select committee Monday, he announced on Newsnation Friday. Stirewalt was let go by Fox News soon after his work on the team that projected on election night 2020 that Joe Biden would win Arizona, ahead of other …
Read More »Supreme Court says Boston violated First Amendment by refusing to fly group’s Christian flag
Washington — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment when it rejected a request from a Christian civic organization to fly a flag bearing a cross on a flagpole outside of City Hall. Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the opinion for the court, …
Read More »Once challenged by House Republicans, proxy voting becomes tool for both parties
Washington — On a Tuesday afternoon in early February, Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, participated in an event with the Philadelphia Inquirer from the inside of a vehicle parked outside the U.S. Capitol. But at the same time, his colleagues were in the House chamber, casting votes on …
Read More »Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signs bill allowing guns to be carried without license
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed a law allowing residents to carry handguns in public without a license or background check. Kemp, a Republican, backed a similar proposal when he ran for governor in 2018, and expanding gun rights was a key part of his platform. He urged the …
Read More »Biden announces Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court pick
Washington — President Biden will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, he announced Friday, fulfilling his campaign pledge to name the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court. Mr. Biden formally announced Jackson, 51, as his pick …
Read More »Supreme Court agrees to hear challenges to affirmative action in college admissions
Washington — The Supreme Court will consider a pair of cases involving the use of race in admissions processes at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, it said Monday. With the decision to take up the bids brought by students who applied to the schools, members of the …
Read More »McCarthy says he won’t cooperate with request to speak to January 6 committee
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol is asking House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to voluntarily provide information. But McCarthy said in a statement Wednesday night that he has “concluded to not participate with this select committee.” January 6 select committee chair Bennie Thompson …
Read More »Schumer vows Senate vote on $1.75 trillion social spending plan despite Manchin opposition
Washington — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pledged Monday that the Senate will take up President Biden’s nearly $2 trillion plan to expand the social safety net and combat climate change despite West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin pulling his support for the legislation. In a letter to his fellow Senate …
Read More »House approves debt limit framework that will allow it to pass Senate with 51 votes
The House on Tuesday night approved a framework that would allow the Senate to raise the debt limit with a simple majority, or 51 votes. The fast-track process would require Democrats in the Senate to introduce the legislation to raise the debt limit by a certain amount, rather than suspending …
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