Report: Ocasio-Cortez targets Jeffries for 2020 primary challenge
Congressmember-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking to defeat U.S. rep. Hakeem Jeffries by recruiting a Democrat to challenge him in a primary in 2020.
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Meek Mill says he’s ‘always open to talking’ to Trump about criminal justice reform
"I'm always open to talking to the president to make change. Everybody I was in prison with always encouraged me to go, take the sacrifice, even if you get crucified in the media - go, try to make change," the rapper told ABC News on Friday, after participating in a panel discussion during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference , which was held in Washington D.C. and hosted by Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.
The House Returns to Deep Uncertainty Over Both Parties’ Leadership
The House returns from its July Fourth recess this week in a state of remarkable uncertainty, with both Democrats and Republicans facing open questions about their leaders' futures and neither party certain of which will be in control after November's elections. "Sometimes things have to be torn down before they can be built back up," said Representative Brian Higgins, Democrat of New York.
Democrats, activists rally against Trump’s family separation policy
"This must not be who we are as a nation," said Representative Jerrold Nadler, one of seven members of Congress from New York and New Jersey who met with five detainees inside the facility, including three who said they had young relatives removed from their care after seeking asylum at the border. The event in the city of Elizabeth came as news stories highlighting the family separations intensified political pressure on the White House, even from some of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans.
J’can pastor in New York gets congressional proclamation on 99th birthday
That's one of the favourite sayings of Reverend Charles J Barrett. And whereas he loves to proclaim blessings on others, the outpouring of love and affection on the occasion of his 99th birthday last Saturday, in Brooklyn, New York, has shown that the goodly gentleman is himself well blessed.
The latest political back and forth, on both sides of the aisle, as…
Politico has two fascinating new articles about on-going political debates and maneuvering surrounding the FIRST STEP Act. That proposal, as reported here, received a 25-5 vote in favor in the House Judiciary Committee ten days ago, and it seems to be the top federal criminal justice reform bill with a real chance to get to the desk of Prez Trump in the coming months.
De Blasio, Schumer lead Dems in rally against GOP tax overhaul
Mayor de Blasio denounced the congressional tax plan as a theft from the middle class to benefit the wealthy. He is seen at a City Hall rally on Sunday.
The Latest: LeBron James expands his criticism of Trump
James referred to Trump as "U bum" in a tweet on Saturday after the president pulled back an invitation to the Golden State Warriors to visit the White House. James said at a free-wheeling news conference on Monday that Trump doesn't understand how many kids are looking up to the president of the United States for guidance, leadership and words of encouragement.
Who’s on the ballot for next week’s primary elections
In Brooklyn, acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez - who has the backing of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and much of the Democratic Party establishment - is facing six rivals with prosecutorial experience. Anne Swern, Patricia Gatling, Marc Fliedner, Ama Dwimoh and John Gangemi all have worked as prosecutors in the DA's office.
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Our worst fears about President Barack Obama's successor are being realized. According to most national polls, presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a statistical dead heat for the popular vote.
Anger at GOP-abetting turncoat Democrats in New York spurs talk of primary challenges
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... While New York is a heavily Democratic state, the GOP has run the state Senate almost nonstop for decades. Democrats actually won a nominal 32-31 majority in 2016, but the eight-member Independent Democratic Conference continues to keep the Republican leadership in power, while a ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, outright caucuses with the GOP.
Clinton Team Hopes ‘Birther’ Flap Will Motivate Black Voters
Democrats wasted no time looking for political opportunity after Donald Trump falsely accused Hillary Clinton of starting the rumor that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. Just hours later, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York was on Philadelphia R&B station, WDAS, critiquing Trump's behavior. Days later Clinton's North Carolina state organizers met in Raleigh, in part to chart how to use negative reaction to Trump's statement to motivate the state's disproportionately high black voting bloc to turn out.
Congressman: 50 Most Beautiful spurns bare heads
The editors behind The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful are disputing a harebrained claim from Rep. Steve Cohen that the annual list shows a pattern of excluding those beauties sporting a naked scalp. "This year, I read with interest, as I have every year since I was elected to the House in 2006, The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful list," the Tennessee Democrat writes in a Monday letter to The Hill.
Trump’s birther flip meets with skepticism from many blacks
In this July 8, 2016 file photo, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., center, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Joyce Beatty , D-Ohio, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Butterfield, Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., and Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Black voters reacted skeptically on Friday to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's public admission that he now believes the nation's first black president was indeed born in the United States.
De Blasio down, not out as probes and spats weaken mayor
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio shakes hands as he arrives for the opening of the Hudson Yards subway station in New York on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015.