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Politics By Ryan King Published April 23, 2024, 6:43 p.m. ET More than half of the Senate GOP conference insisted the Biden administration “take action” Tuesday to safeguard Jewish college students across the country and restore order amid a spate of anti-Israel protests on campus. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, calling on them to brief lawmakers on their actions to quell the unrest by 5 p.m. Wednesday. “You need to take action to restore order and protect Jewish students on our college campuses,” wrote Cotton and 25 of…
Reacting for the first time to former President Donald Trump’s vow to order the Justice Department to investigate his political opponents, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he would not allow his agents to conduct any investigation that doesn’t comply with “our rules, our procedures, our best practices, our core values.”In an interview Tuesday with NBC News’ Lester Holt at FBI headquarters, Wray said that, as long as he is FBI director, he is “going to make sure … we do the right thing in the right way.””And that means following the law, following our rules, staying faithful to our core…
Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said it raised $50.5 million at a Saturday event in Florida, marking a massive haul as his campaign looks to catch up to the Biden campaign’s recent fundraising efforts and significant cash advantage.The record-breaking sum that the campaign reported raising at a Palm Beach, Florida fundraising dinner on Saturday far surpasses the amount brought in by a star-studded fundraiser for the Biden campaign last month, as the GOP touted the event as an indicator of party’s unity behind the former president. In a joint statement, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump…
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Donald Trump appears with his lawyer Todd Blanche by video conferencing before Justice Juan Merchan during a prior hearing ahead of his hush-money trial. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg Trump’s hush money trial is in its second week in Manhattan.Attorney Todd Blanche struggled Tuesday to defend Trump’s online attacks on witnesses and the jury.”You’re losing all credibility,” the judge railed when Blanche insisted Trump was “careful” online. A judge verbally excoriated a defense attorney for Donald Trump during the Manhattan hush-money trial on Tuesday, questioning the lawyer’s ethics and calling his…
State legislators have until May 9 to change a law that could keep President Joe Biden off the Ohio ballot this fall, because the Democratic Party’s nominating convention in Chicago will be held after the state’s presidential candidate certification deadline. But the Republican leader of the Ohio Senate said Biden will be on the ballot.The Ohio Democratic Party was notified April 5 by the office of Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, that the deadline to certify presidential candidates is Aug. 7. The party’s convention is set for Aug. 19-22. The letter said the Democratic National Committee must move…
Lee B. Laskin, a Republican state senator from Camden County who cast the deciding vote to give tenure to Chief Justice Robert Wilentz in 1986 and then lost his seat in a GOP wave election when South Jersey Democratic powerhouse George E. Norcross III spent millions to oust him as settlement of a political grudge, died on April 18. He was 87. Laskin served one term as an assemblyman and one as a Camden County freeholder. He served as a Superior Court Judge from 1994 until he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2006, and then for five…
Republicans in the Colorado State Senate have unanimously voted against a constitutional amendment that would allow all victims of child sexual abuse to pursue a civil claim against abusers and organizations, regardless of when the abuse occurred. A Colorado law went into effect on January 1, 2022, that removed the statute of limitations for child sex abuse claims going forward, allowing victims to bring forth a civil claim with no deadline. In 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional amendment would be needed in order to remove the 6-year statute of limitations for all child sexual abuse claims…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched U.S. Senate race emphasized this week that he doesn’t oppose elderly people voting after initially saying that “almost nobody in a nursing home” is at a point in life where they are capable of voting.Eric Hovde faces Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in the race that is essential for Democrats to win in order to maintain their majority in the Senate. A Marquette University Law School poll this week showed the race is about even among likely voters.Baldwin and Democrats have been attacking Hovde over comments he first made April…
RENO, Nev. (KOLO) -A candidate for the Nevada Republican U.S. Senate nomination this week launched advertisements criticizing frontrunner Sam Brown.One ad by Dr. Jeff Gunter links Brown to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and begins, “Scam Brown. The newest creature to emerge from the swamp.” It charges Brown got campaign contributions from McConnell, described as the “swamp king himself.”That ad said Brown tricked campaign donors to pay off old campaign bills and that Brown was not sufficiently pro-Donald Trump. Gunter, a dermatologist appointed by Trump as ambassador to Iceland, described himself has 110% pro-Trump.The ad ends with a close-up of…
By Morgan Phillips, Congress Reporter On Capitol Hill For Dailymail.Com 15:32 22 Apr 2024, updated 18:05 22 Apr 2024 The foreign aid package has laid to bare a rift within the GOP almost as vast as the on between the two parties Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., tore into Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance for his anti-Ukraine aid stance over the weekend: ‘That is garbage’ The Senate looks poised to send a sprawling package with aid for Israel and Ukraine to President Biden’s desk this week, but Republicans are pulling out moves to delay the bill’s passing. Just as the Senate is anxious…