President Joe Biden, however, has said he is “not a fan” of the idea, also known as “court packing.” Instead, the White House announced last week the creation of a bipartisan commission to study reforms to the Supreme Court and produce a report. The high court currently has a 6-3 […]
Pelosi invites Biden to address Congress
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. | Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday night formally invited President Joe Biden to address a joint session of Congress on April 28, his first speech to both chambers as president. In a brief letter to Biden, Pelosi said she invited […]
Clyburn: Georgia election law is the ‘new Jim Crow’
GOP supporters of the new restrictions claim they will hold up election integrity, despite a lack of evidence of any widespread voter fraud. But for critics of the law, it is the epitome of voter suppression. President Joe Biden is among those vehemently opposed to the restrictions, calling the law […]
House Ethics Committee opens Gaetz investigation
Gaetz has sharply denied the allegations and suggested he’s the victim of an extortion plot that negates the evidence against him. It’s not Gaetz’s first tangle with the Ethics Committee. In 2019, the panel conducted an inquiry into Gaetz’s Twitter threat to expose an extramarital affair by Donald Trump’s former […]
Prisons chief set to face congressional grilling
Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining issues facing prisons and jails during the coronavirus pandemic on June 2, 2020. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Pool via AP The director of the Bureau of Prisons — Michael Carvajal, appointed to that […]
The congressman and his wingman
Their relationship is central to the allegations against Gaetz, a fierce Donald Trump ally who denies having sexual relations with a 17-year-old and prostitutes. Together, the taxman and the congressman shared a life-in-the-fast lane existence that contradicted the staid image that most elected officials are careful to maintain. The only-in-Florida […]
Eric Bolling won’t run for Congress
Bolling said that he’d “been absolutely inundated by people here in this district to run for” Mace’s Charleston-based seat. “While it’s too soon after the passing of my son to get into politics, the overwhelming support I’ve received indicates this is not the end of my opportunities politically, in South […]