President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) signed on Monday to co-sponsor a Democrat-led bill to amend the US Constitution to give Congress oversight of presidential pardons, a measure aimed at pushing back … Read more
A conservative lawyer has issued a blistering takedown of President Donald Trump’s attempt to prosecute six Democratic members of Congress. Andrew McCarthy, a Fox News legal analyst and editor of the National Review, said an effort by the Justice Department to criminally indict Democrats made another impeachment of Trump more likely. Trump was impeached twice … Read more
Ohio Republican Jim Jordan invited the scorn by pointing out that people don’t have the right to disrupt Congress, despite his long record of defending those involved in the January 6, 2021 riots. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee made this remark during Wednesday’s fiery hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, who faced off … Read more
Democrat Christian Menefee, formerly Houston’s Harris County attorney, won a special congressional election in a left-leaning Texas congressional district that has been vacant for nearly a year. The Associated Press reports that Menefee defeated former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards, a fellow Democrat, in Saturday’s runoff election to fill the seat left vacant when … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy that requires a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit immigration detention facilities. US District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, DC, concluded that the Department of Homeland Security did not violate a previous court order … Read more
On November 2, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that ground strikes in Venezuela would require congressional approval. She said that if Trump “had to authorize any activity on the ground, then it’s a war, so (we need) Congress.” Days later, Trump administration officials privately told members of Congress the same … Read more
The Kennedy Center was reported to have adopted bylaws earlier this year limiting voting to trustees appointed by Donald Trump – a controversial move that appears to reveal the long-held plan to install Trump’s name on the center. The bylaws, in possible violation of the institution’s charter, were revised in May and specified that board … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. US District Judge Amit Mehta did not rule from … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny is deep in debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 a month. Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 — an increase significant enough that the program manager in Aldie, Virginia, is resigned … Read more
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted right-wing personality Mike Cernovich Wednesday over her decision to resign from Congress early. Greene, once a staunch MAGA loyalist who clashed with President Donald Trump for weeks, announced Friday that she would resign her seat in the House on January 5, 2026. In a more than 10-minute video posted … Read more