Jimmy Williams A report released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee states that former President Donald Trump received at least $7.8 million in payments from twenty foreign governments during his tenure in the White House. The report highlights that China was the leading contributor, providing over $5.5 million to …
Read More »FBI Says Bomb Threats To State Capitols Were A ‘hoax’
Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance The FBI is calling a bomb threat that shut down the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday one of several “hoax incidents” across the country. More than 20 state Capitols received similar threats, according to media reports. The FBI urges the public to remain vigilant, and report …
Read More »Congress Was Full Of Postponements In 2023. Now 2024 Could Be Even Less Productive.
Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix Congress got next to nothing done during the past year and could accomplish even less in 2024 as attention shifts to the November elections. House Republican and Senate Democratic leaders reached agreement on bills and resolutions they sent to the president’s desk just 34 times during …
Read More »House Republicans Visit Border, Demands Biden Administration Crack Down On Illegal Immigration
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson traveled to the Texas-Mexico border on Wednesday and said that if President Biden wants Republican support for helping Ukraine and Israel in their wars, he needs to crack down on illegal immigration at the border. “If President Biden wants …
Read More »Fresh Calls for Stock Trading Ban After US Lawmakers Beat Market in 2023
A financial watchdog group on Tuesday released its annual report on congressional stock trading, which shows that “Congress blew the market out of the water” in 2023, fueling fresh calls for a ban targeting U.S. lawmakers and their immediate family members. “Members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks …
Read More »Trump Appeals Maine Secretary of State Decision To Remove Him From Primary Ballot
AnnMarie Hilton, Maine Morning Star Former President Donald Trump is appealing the decision from Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to disqualify him from the Republican presidential primary ballot. On Dec. 28, Bellows ruled that Trump is ineligible under the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who took an oath to …
Read More »Sen. Bob Menendez Accused Of Abusing His Position To Benefit Qatar
Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor Federal authorities issued a new superseding indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez Tuesday, accusing the former head of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee of accepting bribes to benefit both the government of Qatar and a friend who was looking to hook a Qatari investor for …
Read More »Sanders Says No More US Money for ‘Grossly Disproportionate’ Israeli War on Gaza
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government another $10 billion in unconditional aid to continue waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip. In a statement echoing his remarks on the Senate floor and a letter …
Read More »A ‘chaotic’ January? Congress Faces Two Shutdown Deadlines With No Action Yet On Spending
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Congress is staring down a funding cliff in mid-January and a second one in early February, but neither of those deadlines have inspired House and Senate leaders to broker agreement on the dozen bills that were supposed to become law by Oct. 1. Appropriators are concerned …
Read More »Texas Emergency Rooms Not Required To Perform Life-Saving Abortions, Federal Appeals Court Rules
Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune Federal regulations do not require emergency rooms to perform life-saving abortions if it would run afoul of state law, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. After the overturn of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent hospitals …
Read More »Abortion Could Be On The Ballot In Eleven States
Elisha Brown, Michigan Advance With the general election in November, abortion rights are set to be directly on the ballot in Maryland and New York after Democratic-controlled legislatures approved those measures. While Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Virginia have proposed resolutions to protect abortion access, state rules require legislatures to …
Read More »Special Counsel Urges Appeals Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claim in Election Interference Case
Jimmy Williams Special counsel Jack Smith has strongly opposed former President Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss the federal election interference case against him, arguing that presidential immunity doesn’t shield Trump from criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In an extensive 80-page filing to the U.S. …
Read More »Raskin: Thomas ‘Absolutely Should Recuse’ in Trump 2024 Case
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Amid expectations that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider legal arguments that former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from 2024 Republican primary ballots, Democratic Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on Sunday called for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any such cases. Raskin—a constitutional …
Read More »Former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Black Democratic Trailblazer, Dies at 88
Abby Livingston and Pooja Salhotra, The Texas Tribune Retired U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has died, her family said Sunday on social media. She was 88. A towering Dallas political figure — once a nurse, state legislator and congresswoman — Johnson was the dean of the Texas Congressional delegation before …
Read More »Judge Blocks Iowa Book Ban, ‘Don’t Say LGBTQ’ Law
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked key parts of what critics called a “sweeping Iowa law that seeks to silence LGBTQ+ students, erase any recognition of LGBTQ+ people from public schools, and bans books with sexual or LGBTQ+ content.” Judge Stephen Locher determined that none …
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