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    4 Key Moments From House Panel’s First ‘Impeachment Hearing’

    President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, set the tone early Tuesday during what House Democrats billed as a debut impeachment hearing.  “I will be as sincere in my answers as this committee is in its questions,” Lewandowski said toward the end of his opening statement.  It turned out that Lewandowski, who already has…
    Fred Lucas
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    Washington Post Passed on Thinly Sourced Kavanaugh Story Before New York Times Ran It

    The Washington Post passed on a thinly sourced, unproven allegation about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before The New York Times published it Sunday in a misleading article that has since been corrected. Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly left out exculpatory evidence in an article that said Kavanaugh had his pants down at…
    Peter Hasson
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    Senate Republicans Tell Supreme Court Not to Be Swayed by Democrats’ Court-Packing Threats

    Senate Republicans urged the Supreme Court not to be intimidated after Democratic lawmakers warned that its decision in a pending Second Amendment case could inflame the liberal push to restructure the court. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island filed an amicus (or “friend of the court”) brief on Aug. 12 in a challenge to New York…
    Kevin Daley
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    Washington Post Publishes, Retracts Attempt to Link Conservative Author to White Nationalism

    The Washington Post on Tuesday retracted an op-ed writer’s distorted attempt to link conservative author J.D. Vance to white nationalism. Left-wing writer Marissa Brostoff penned an op-ed for the Post accusing the mainstream pro-life movement of aligning with white nationalists. Brostoff’s accusation depended on two examples: pariah Republican Iowa Rep. Steve King—whose comments on white nationalism were unanimously condemned by Republicans in…
    Peter Hasson
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    Impeachment Documents Sought From House Committees

    House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has asked House panels investigating President Donald Trump to share impeachment documents. Nadler requested the documents in a Thursday letter to fellow Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California, Maxine Waters of California, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and Elliot Engel of New York. The House Judiciary Committee chairman asks in the letter that their…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Washington State Pulls Out of Title X Rather Than Abide by Trump Abortion Rules

    Washington state has withdrawn from Title X, the federal family funding program, rather than comply with new rules imposed by the Trump administration. The Washington Department of Health informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of its decision to withdraw from the program rather than obey administration rules banning Title X grantees from…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Democratic Senator Faces Ethics Complaint After Warning Justices About Court-Packing

    Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has attracted an ethics complaint and vigorous criticism from conservatives after raising the prospect of court-packing in a new legal filing before the Supreme Court. Depending on one’s perspective, Whitehouse’s extraordinary brief is either a cogent indictment of the court’s seemingly partisan valence or particularly blunt strong-arming of the nation’s…
    Kevin Daley
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    Abusing the Impeachment Process

    On three separate occasions, Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, has introduced a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. Each time, the House of Representatives has voted it down. And with good reason. Consider Green’s latest resolution. No matter how much one opposes Trump, it would have been a serious misuse of the House’s impeachment power. The…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    House Panel Begins ‘Formal Impeachment Proceedings’ Against Trump

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Thursday that his committee has begun “formal impeachments proceedings” against President Donald Trump. The House has been attempting to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Trump. Former special counsel Robert Mueller launched an 18-month investigation into alleged misconduct by the president. His investigation found that Russia had…
    Shelby Talcott
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    NAACP Calls for Trump’s Impeachment

    The NAACP is calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment following a speech made by a stalwart of the effort at the group’s annual convention Tuesday.   “We have in the White House a person who is ruthless and lawless, and I am a person who believes that such a person should not occupy the White House…
    Joshua Q. Nelson
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    Sen. Braun Describes How He’s Trying to Bring ‘Accountability’ to Washington’s Spending

    Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., joins the podcast to explain the downsides of the new spending bill and how his MAP Act would boost the economy. The CEO-turned-senator, a newcomer to Washington, D.C., also shares why it seems so hard to get any kind of spending control to occur in Congress. Read the exclusive interview, posted…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Rep. Al Green Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Trump

    Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Tuesday, paving the way for the first vote on the measure since Democrats took control of the House. Green introduced the resolution after the House voted to condemn Trump over his weekend remarks about four freshmen House Democrats. Trump tweeted that Democratic Reps….
    Chuck Ross
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    Senate Resolution Cautions Against Federal Bailout of Fiscally Irresponsible States

    Most of the public was outraged when, during the financial crisis of 2008, Congress provided a massive financial bailout, including $70 billion of taxpayers’ money to insurance giant AIG and $80 billion to U.S. automakers General Motors, Chrysler, and GMAC. Even most politicians who voted in favor of the bailouts did so begrudgingly, in part…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Senate Democrats Show What Real Confirmation Obstruction Looks Like

    On March 13, 2012, then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., spoke on the Senate floor about the judicial confirmation process. He accused Republicans of applying “a different and unfair standard to President [Barack] Obama’s judicial nominees.” Today, Leahy and his fellow Democrats are demonstrating just what real obstruction looks like. Specifically, Leahy said that nominees…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Senate Defense Spending Bill Shows Promise in Rebuilding the Military

    Congress could do more to shore up the U.S. military, but at least both houses now acknowledge the need to increase spending to some degree. The final markup of the National Defense Authorization Act that the Senate passed on May 23 by a 25-2 margin shows progress toward rebuilding the military with considerable investments in…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Democrat Senator Reveals His Ties to the Knights of Columbus

    Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., may be causing eyes to roll or shocks of horror in his own party after he disclosed that he is, in fact, a member of the Knights of Columbus during a Wednesday judicial nomination hearing. In a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing for U.S. District Court Judge Peter Phipps to serve…
    Carmel Kookogey
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    ICE Rips Washington for Passing Sweeping ‘Sanctuary’ Policies Protecting Illegal Immigrants

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement ripped Washington for becoming the latest state to enact policies that protect illegal immigrants from local law enforcement and federal authorities. “ICE maintains that cooperation by local law enforcement is an indispensable component of promoting public safety. It’s unfortunate that current local and state laws and policies tie the hands of…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Senate Republicans Renew Earmark Ban and Make It Permanent

    The Senate Republican Conference adopted an amendment Thursday, pushed by Sen. Ben Sasse, to retain the Senate’s ban on spending earmarks. “The last thing taxpayers need is for the same politicians who racked up a $22 trillion national debt to go on an earmark binge,” the Nebraska Republican said in a statement. Congress enacted a…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Senate Picks Up the Pace in Confirming New Judges

    Senate Republicans used the so-called nuclear option April 3 to eliminate one of the Democrats’ tactics for slowing down the process for considering President Donald Trump’s nominees. In a column here at the time, I wrote that Republicans “need to seize this opportunity so that the government that Americans elected in 2016 can function as…
    Thomas Jipping
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    House Passes Equality Act

    The House voted 236-173 Friday to pass Democrats’ Equality Act, pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “This is not about tolerance,” Pelosi said in a video posted to Twitter. “This is about respect for our LGBTQ communities, this is about taking pride.”   “We won the fight in the House today, and we will continue…
    Rachel del Guidice
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