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WASHINGTON >> Senate Republicans today blocked legislation that would codify the right to access fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization, in the latest election-year bid by Democrats to spotlight GOP opposition to protecting reproductive freedoms. On a vote of 48-47, all but two Republicans opposed advancing the bill, which would give Americans the statutory right to receive fertility treatments and decide how their reproductive material is used, stored and disposed of. That left the measure well short of the 60 votes it needed to move forward, an outcome Democrats anticipated and even welcomed as part of their strategy to…
The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday not to impose restrictions on a key abortion drug, while a victory for abortion rights advocates, crystallizes the stakes of the next presidential election for access nationwide.Because a president has enormous power to influence federal agencies that oversee abortion policy, a potential Trump administration could unilaterally choose to do what the Supreme Court did not: impose strict restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs used in over 60 percent of abortions — or even move to take the drug off the market entirely.“This decision means the ball is squarely in the next administration’s court,” said…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump made a triumphant return to Capitol Hill on Thursday, his first with lawmakers since the Jan.6, 2021 attacks, embraced by energized House and Senate Republicans who find themselves reinvigorated by his bid to retake the White House.Despite pending federal charges against Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, and his recent guilty verdict in an unrelated hush money trial, the Republican former president arrived emboldened as the party’s presumptive nominee. He has successfully purged the GOP of critics, silenced most skeptics and enticed once-critical lawmakers aboard his MAGA-fueled campaign.A packed room of House Republicans…
Congressional Republicans are well are of the broad public support for in vitro fertilization. With one recent poll showing that a whopping 86% of Americans want IVF treatments to be legal, GOP officials realize that it’d be politically dangerous to oppose this popular, safe, and effective pro-family policy.With this in mind, every member of the Senate Republican conference — literally, all 49 members — signed onto a joint statement, issued this morning, expressing their collective support for IVF access. “We strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF, which has allowed millions of aspiring parents to start and grow their families,”…
An interesting detail emerged from a recent CBS/YouGov poll on how well Republican voters understanding the stakes of Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House. Only 35% of Republicans polled, as noted by The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake, say they know that Trump has been indicted for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. Almost the same number — 34% — don’t think he’s been indicted for his attempts to stop the peaceful transfer of power.Read moreAs readers here undoubtedly know, special counsel Jack Smith has, in fact, charged Trump with multiple counts of conspiring to defraud the government and hold…
Donald Trump shakes hands with Turning Point CEO Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here. One of the most under-covered stories of the Trump era and the 2024 presidential campaign is Donald Trump’s relationship with far-right extremism. This has been going…
Donald Trump is returning to Washington on Thursday to rally congressional Republicans behind him and remind lawmakers what they could achieve if voters return the White House and Senate to Republican hands and expand the slender House GOP majority.A majority of conservative lawmakers are eagerly waiting to hear from the presumptive Republican nominee for president, who will meet with House Republicans in the morning and Senate Republicans shortly after noon at their respective campaign headquarters steps away from the Capitol.“It’s going to be a pep rally,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), a Trump loyalist, predicted.Trump is expected to capitalize on the…
After becoming the first former president to face criminal charges, Donald Trump faces another historic first next month: He could become the first former president in U.S. history to be ordered to prison when he’s sentenced in his New York hush money case.Several experts told ABC News that the odds are against the former president serving any time behind bars before the 2024 election, after a jury in May found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to an effort to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.But it’s possible that the nature and circumstances of Trump’s…
Justin Everett, the former Jefferson County legislator who oversaw Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Colorado earlier this year, is helping organize next month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, party and campaign officials told Colorado Politics.The shift in focus for the veteran political consultant comes as the Trump campaign consolidates operations with the Republican National Committee after the former president secured the GOP nomination this spring, the officials said.Trump’s campaign hired Everett as its state director in January, just days after the Colorado Republican Party broke with tradition to endorse Trump ahead of the state’s Super Tuesday presidential primary. Weeks later,…
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic Party bill aimed at imposing a binding code of conduct on Supreme Court justices, NBC reported. Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., championed the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act on the Senate floor Wednesday, emphasizing that “the highest court in the land cannot and should not have the lowest ethical standards.” Durbin sought to pass the bill by unanimous consent, but it faced immediate Republican opposition. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., led the GOP effort to derail the legislation, arguing that the bill was an “unconstitutional overreach” that would “undermine the…