Mayorkas takes heat from GOP in hearings on DHS budget, border The budget includes billions of dollars to help fight terrorism, secure the United States' borders, strengthen disaster resilience and more, Mayorkas said. The budget also includes $4.7 billion ... 04/10/2024 - 2:26 am | View Link
MTG presents case for removing Johnson as speaker in appeal to House GOP Shortly before lawmakers adjourned for their two-week Easter recess, Greene filed a motion to vacate on the House floor in what she called a “warning” to Johnson. Although the Georgia ... 04/9/2024 - 8:31 am | View Link
Marjorie Taylor Greene makes case for ousting Mike Johnson, dialing up pressure This has been a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with ... wins in negotiations “if we had only put up a fight with Democrats.” Johnson, Greene said, was ... 04/9/2024 - 4:50 am | View Link
National Politics In the letter, she outlined the promises she said Johnson made to Republicans during the fight to become speaker ... if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats’ agenda that has ... 04/8/2024 - 11:26 pm | View Link
MTG presents case for removing Johnson as speaker in appeal to House GOP She accused Johnson of “a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats’ agenda that has angered our Republican base so much and given them very ... 04/8/2024 - 10:56 pm | View Link
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
Twice impeached and four times indicted, former President Donald Trump issued a desperate plea for help to his Republican allies on Truth Social amid his hush-money case. Trump wrote at 2:00 AM, so he isn't getting much sleep. It shouldn't be called a hush-money case, though, since it's about Donald interfering in the 2016 election.
Republican Voters Against Trump made a powerful ad. Donald Trump was charged with 88 felonies and was found liable for sexual assault. He could not get a job in a retail store for minimum wage. If the former president is too big a liability to get a job at a local mall, he is too big a liability to lead the United States.
Trump is making history this week, as the first ex-president to have a criminal trial.
Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. siphoning more support away from Trump than President Joe Biden.
The potential emerging trend was first spotted by The Washington Post's Aaron Blake.
In the NBC poll, Biden trailed Trump by 2 points in the head-to-head matchup, 44% to 46%.
This morning, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case brought by the state of Idaho, which wants the nation’s highest court to rule that its abortion ban preempts federal law when it comes to emergency abortion care.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires that hospitals receiving Medicare funding provide stabilizing care for all ER patients—including abortion care, even if it conflicts with a state’s own stricter abortion rules.
Enter Idaho.