GOP Lawmaker Eviscerates His Own Party on CNN: ‘Some Real Scumbags’ The lawmaker added that Johnson has governed in an “honorable way” and that he believes he’ll survive a push to vacate if it comes to that point. Gonzales’ appearance drew the attention of ... 04/21/2024 - 11:20 am | View Link
GOP lawmaker slams Republican colleagues over Ukraine support: ‘They would like to see the Russians win’ Republican Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.) ripped into his colleagues who oppose further funding for Ukraine, arguing they “would like to see” Russia win the more than two-year war against Kyiv. 04/18/2024 - 3:12 pm | View Link
GOP lawmaker demands action from Japan PM on key issue impacting hundreds of US children abroad FIRST ON FOX: A Republican congressman has personally delivered a letter to Japan’s prime minister urging him to take action in order to address the issue of hundreds of American children being ... 04/16/2024 - 4:05 am | View Link
House Intelligence Committee chair says Russian propaganda has spread through parts of GOP House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner said Sunday that Russian propaganda has “absolutely” seeped its way to Congress, saying some of his Republican colleagues have repeated false ... 04/7/2024 - 3:31 pm | View Link
A former GOP lawmaker says it's 'ironic' that he got 'more good work done' when Democrats controlled the House It hasn't even been a month since former Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck departed Congress. But the hits keep on coming. Amid a slew of recent criticism of the Republican-controlled House — including ... 04/7/2024 - 9:11 am | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.