by Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Voters in South Carolina would go first in picking Democratic presidential nominees, followed by Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia and Michigan if their states go along with a proposal a key Democratic National Committee panel approved Friday. The Rules and Bylaws Committee’s nearly unanimous voice vote …
Read More »With GOP House Control Looming, Pascrell Calls for Swift Release of Trump Tax Records
Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams It took U.S. House lawmakers more than three-and-a-half years to get their hands on former President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, but with Republicans assuming control of the chamber next month, Democrats are quickly running out of time to examine and publish the highly sought-after records. …
Read More »Walker, Warnock Make Final Pitches To Georgia Voters In Senate Runoff
Stephen Fowler and Riley Bunch, GPB News After tens of millions of dollars in TV ads and mailers, texts and calls, canvassing and campaign stops, the U.S. Senate runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker will soon be over. Whomever Georgia voters elect will serve the state in …
Read More »House Committee to Investigate Alito Leak, Right-Wing Lobbying at Supreme Court
Julia Conley, Common Dreams U.S. Supreme Court watchdogs on Thursday applauded the House Judiciary Committee for announcing it will hold a hearing next week regarding allegations that Justice Samuel Alito leaked at least one of the court’s rulings to right-wing activists—and called on the Senate to follow suit in the …
Read More »Biden Signs Bill That Staves Off Railroad Workers Strike
Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch Joe Biden on Friday signed into law a resolution intended to avert a freight rail strike, based on an agreement reached between some rail unions and freight rail companies. Several unions did not agree with the deal passed by Congress because it lacked paid sick …
Read More »Supreme Court Wrestles Over Biden’s Immigration Enforcement Policy
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Biden administration has the right to decide which undocumented immigrants federal agents should prioritize for deportation. During the two hours of arguments, the court’s conservative justices sounded skeptical of the Biden administration’s efforts to …
Read More »Supreme Court To Review Biden Student Debt Relief Plan In February
The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will hear oral arguments in February over a legal challenge by six Republican-led states to the Biden administration student borrower relief plan. Until the arguments are heard and the court issues a ruling, the $400 billion Biden plan is on hold due to …
Read More »Senate Averts Freight Rail Strike, But Bid To Include Worker Sick Leave Fails
Ariana Figueroa, Nebraska Examiner The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to codify an agreement the White House brokered between rail unions and freight companies in order to avoid a catastrophic rail strike, but fell short of enough votes to include paid sick leave for workers. The Senate backed the rail …
Read More »House Democrats Finally Get Trump Tax Returns
On Wednesday, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House Ways and Means Committee received six years of former President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, ending a three-year battle in which the 2024 Republican presidential candidate fought fiercely against sharing documents that every one of his predecessors since Richard Nixon have disclosed. “Donald Trump …
Read More »Colorado’s Automatic Recount Law Triggered In Boebert-Frisch House Race
Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Wednesday formally ordered a mandatory recount of the results for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District race, pursuant to the state’s automatic recount law. In the final tabulation of unofficial results, Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert led her opponent, Democrat Adam …
Read More »Rights Groups Rip NYC Mayor Over Forced Hospitalizations for Mental Illness
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Rights groups are sharply condemning New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ Tuesday directive requiring local law enforcement and emergency medical workers to respond to the intertwined mental health and homelessness crises with involuntary hospitalizations. “If the circumstances support an objectively reasonable basis to conclude that the …
Read More »House GOP To Keep Earmarks For Local Projects — With Some ‘tweaks’
Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent House Republicans voted Wednesday to keep earmarks in place when they take over the chamber in January, a move that solidifies GOP support for the controversial spending practice that was brought back under new guardrails and transparency mechanisms less than two years ago. Earmarking has become …
Read More »House Democrats Make History Electing First Black Party Leader In Congress
The three U.S. House Democrats who have led their party through four presidencies and thousands of floor votes formally passed the torch to the next generation Wednesday, when the party gathered behind closed doors to elect its top leaders for the 118th Congress. House Democrats named Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, …
Read More »House Votes To Avert Calamitous Rail Strike, But Senate Prospects Murky
Jacob Fischler, Virginia Mercury The U.S. House moved Wednesday to avoid an economically disastrous nationwide rail strike, voting to codify an agreement that members of some unions had already rejected and separately add paid sick leave that workers had demanded. The two-track approach allows Democrats to avert a strike …
Read More »National Democrats Meet This Week To Decide Fate Of Iowa Caucuses
Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch Iowa Democrats are staying tight-lipped about their plans moving forward from this week’s Democratic National Committee rules meeting, where some predict national leadership will displace the Iowa Caucuses from their first-in-the-nation position. Iowa Democrats could move forward with presidential caucuses with or without the national …
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