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Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison and Andr Carson are calling on Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders to oppose the confirmation of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, citing his "history of anti-Muslim sentiment and discrimination."
President Donald Trump, finding it harder than expected to get his legislative agenda accomplished on Capitol Hill, is looking to pack the courts with conservative jurists. The latest step in the process came on Tuesday, when the White House unveiled its 12th wave of judicial nominees, US attorneys and US Marshals, a package of 30 people who will now face confirmation battles in the Senate.
Democrats in Congress are expressing deep concern over proposed changes at the Department of Housing and Urban Development that would see the words "free from discrimination" removed from its mission statement a move they say would "erase decades worth of progress" in housing anti-discrimination efforts. In a letter addressed to embattled HUD Secretary Ben Carson, lawmakers are asking the department to not remove the words, saying it would change the mission statement from one that promotes inclusion and discrimination-free communities to "one that does not strive to offer the same protections."
Over 200 former ambassadors and veteran diplomats have signed a letter urging the Senate Foreign Relations committee to grill Mike Pompeo, who is President Trump's nominee to become the next Secretary of State. The letter, sent to Republican committee chairman Sen. Bob Corker and ranking Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, raises concerns that American diplomacy has been crippled and calls on the committee to question Pompeo on how he plans to fix it.
Eschewing any mention of the corruption scandal that dogged him for years and put his political career in jeopardy, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez launched his bid for a third term Wednesday, telling a cheering gymnasium full of high school students that "I am here because I am your vote."
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U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has put a federal corruption case behind him, and now he is taking aim at his Republican challenger, a wealthy former biopharmaceutical executive. The 64-year-old New Jersey Democrat announced he will begin his re-election campaign on Wednesday with stops in his hometown of Union City, outside of New York City, and at Rowan College in southern New Jersey.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will kick off his re-election bid for a third term Wednesday, just two months after federal prosecutors dropped corruption charges against him. The 64-year-old Democrat announced Tuesday will hold events in his hometown of Union City, where he was once mayor, and in southern New Jersey.
NJ Transit said it was investigating passenger reports of an announcement that ICE agents had boarded train 'looking for illegals.' NJ Transit suspends conductor after alleged immigration announcement NJ Transit said it was investigating passenger reports of an announcement that ICE agents had boarded train 'looking for illegals.'
Less than two weeks ago, Harris T. Jaffe spent two-and-a-half hours hiding in a closet during the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., wondering if the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, 19, would find him. On Sunday, the 16-year-old was behind a podium at Temple B'nai Abraham in Livingston, calling for legislative action and telling more than 2,300 people his story of survival in a massacre that left 17 of his classmates and teachers dead.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, walks through a basement passageway at the Capitol amid debates in the Senate on immigration, in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. President Donald Trump is thanking Grassley for introducing legislation similar to the immigration framework pushed by the White House.
White House chief of staff John Kelly suggested Tuesday that some undocumented immigrants were "too afraid" or "too lazy" to sign up for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "There are 690,000 official DACA registrants and the President sent over what amounts to be two and a half times that number, to 1.8 million," he said on Capitol Hill after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, according to audio posted by The Washington Post .
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's biggest hurdle to re-election was removed Wednesday when the Justice Department announced it no longer would try him on criminal corruption charges. "Case closed, both in terms of the court and in terms of the political impact for his re-election campaign,'' said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
This was the DOJ's second attempt to convict Menendez on the charges. In November 2017 a judge declared a mistrial [JURIST report] after the jury ended in a 10-2 deadlock in favor of acquittal.
After months of rhetoric and negotiations on immigration with the parties barely any closer to each other, the reality is beginning to dawn that there may be no deal to be had. Stakeholders working toward a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, likely including border security, are not giving up hope.
In November of last year ten of twelve jurors found that Senator Menendez was innocent of all charges of corruption. That should have been the end of the matter, since a clear majority of those who heard all of the facts found the Senator innocent of all charges.
A judge's decision to acquit U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his co-defendant on seven of the 18 charges they faced was a major setback for the government's corruption case, but not a fatal blow , according to several legal experts. "It sends a clear signal that there were problems with the government's case and there continue to be problems with the government's case," said Adam Lurie, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the government investigations practice at the Linklaters law firm in Washington, D.C. "That said, the case survived."
"It is clear that the United States can - and should - do more to increase international pressure against Maduro and his cronies," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., wrote in a letter to President Trump. President Trump needs to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime, according to a pair of senators worried about drug trafficking and terrorism in the troubled country.
A judge on Wednesday dismissed seven counts in the corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez and a longtime friend, leaving 11 counts remaining for a retrial this year after the first trial ended in a hung jury . The seven counts all dealt with alleged bribery involving political donations to the New Jersey Democrat by Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen.
A judge threw out three bribery charges and one fraud count against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez but left intact other charges as he faces a new trial. The Record and NorthJersey.com's John Ensslin reporting live from the courthouse plaza in Newark with an update that the jury in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has declared itself deadlocked.