Democrats cram opening night with tributes, contrasts with Trump
Biden recalled the security posture on Capitol Hill for his inauguration in January 2021, just weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection that was egged on by Trump.
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Staffers join thousands in fiery protests of Netanyahu on Capitol Hill
"Except for Jan. 6 [attack on the Capitol] and the weeks following it leading into the inauguration, this is the strongest I’ve seen," the Senate aide said.
With little hope of success, Democrats respond to high-court term
Democrats, after years of frustrations with a court controlled 6-3 by Republican appointees and unable to muster bipartisan support for legislation, are pulling some of the few remaining levers they have
Senate appropriators ready emergency adds to spending bills
But GOP appropriators in that chamber ignore most of the side deal adjustments, resulting in effective cuts to nondefense programs of between 6 and 7 percent on average.
Historians, legal experts express dismay at Trump immunity ruling
The sharply divided 6-3 decision wiped out some of the case in Washington against former President Donald Trump, the presumed Republican nominee for president, and all but guaranteed a trial will not happen
Supreme Court’s redistricting decision could hurt map challengers
The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Samuel A.
Strange things are afoot at the Capitol
Alito wrote the opinion for the 6-3 majority. Meanwhile, Congress got a new member-in-waiting, chipping away at its backfill.
Supreme Court backs South Carolina’s congressional map
The 6-3 decision found that the evidence did not support the lower court’s conclusion that state legislators had relied on race when they drew the district currently held by second-term Republican Rep.
Will the last ticket-splitting voter please turn out the light?
The Pew Research Center found in the off-year 2022 elections that only 6 percent of voters switched their party allegiance and opted for a congressional candidate from a different party than they backed
Blocking voters you don’t like is a shameful American tradition
Some in the crowd in America’s 21st-century attempted coup, on Jan, 6, 2021, toted Confederate flags and signs demanding a violent take back of a country they don’t recognize and don’t want to accept.
Supreme Court to decide contentious issues amid ongoing criticism
Democrats to advance for the first time a bill to spell out Supreme Court ethics and launch two committee investigations into alleged ethical lapses by Justice Clarence Thomas, while they contend the 6-
Playing by the rules? What a concept
Justice Clarence Thomas, meanwhile, did not even bother to answer questions about his refusal to recuse himself from the case, despite the fact that his wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, attended Trump’s Jan. 6,
Federal court blocks Louisiana’s latest congressional map
The judges set a status conference for May 6 in the case.
Biden’s support from Democrats held steady in Senate, fell in GOP-led House
"While we work towards making Washington, D.C. the 51st state of our Union, Congress should respect the District of Columbia’s autonomy to govern its own local affairs," OMB said Feb. 6, 2023.
Haley faces tough road back into GOP after taking on Trump, lawmakers say
"Trump goes on and on, multiple times, saying that I prevented the security on Jan. 6 at the Capitol. I wasn’t even anywhere near the Capitol.
House GOP had lowest win rate on ‘party unity’ votes since 1982
From left, Reps. Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy talk on the House floor during votes to choose a speaker on Jan. 6, 2023.
What E. Jean Carroll could teach ‘tough’ Republicans about calling out a bully
Lindsey Graham went from saying, "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it," in 2016, and washing his hands of the former president after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, to
‘Delusions of immortality’: These lawmakers want Congress to get real about continuity
deadly pandemic and seen a spate of politically motivated violence, including a shooter opening fire on a Republican baseball practice in 2017 and a mob breaching the defenses of the Capitol on Jan. 6,
Close but no cigar for Nikki Haley
My Feb. 6 column last year about Nikki Haley didn’t predict that the 2024 GOP nominating contest would come down to Haley and former president Donald J. Trump.
What was on Iowa voters’ minds as Trump rolled to victory?
Among the 51 percent who voted for Trump, 6 percent believed Biden won legitimately, while 89 percent did not.