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That's the history lesson for Republicans eagerly anticipating Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court, which could cement conservative control of the court for a generation. When and how steep? That depends on how momentous the issues and how jolting the decisions, according to legal scholars who've studied the high court's impact on electoral politics.
A lawyer for a Russian businessman suing BuzzFeed News over the infamous Steele dossier says he will provide the Senate with a video of a deposition that Christopher Steele, the document's author, gave as part of the BuzzFeed lawsuit in June. Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the judiciary panel, asked Val Gurvits, a lawyer for Boston Legal Group, to provide a transcript and video of a deposition that Steele gave in London on June 18 as part of a lawsuit against BuzzFeed in a July 25 letter.
August 7: From left, candidates for U.S. Senate, Geoff Diehl, Beth Lindstrom, and John Kingston are seen in the studios of Boston Herald Radio as they debate each other, as the Herald's Hillary Chabot and Joe Battenfeld look on, on August 7, 2018. The three Republican candidates for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's seat mixed it up in the Herald Radio studio today, slamming each other for their varying levels of support for President Trump in their first debate.
US President Donald Trump's son has said his 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer was about "essentially nothing" relevant to claims of collusion. Mr Trump Jr's meeting with a Kremlin-linked attorney at Trump Tower in New York could constitute a breach of US campaign rules, experts say.
It's Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Here is some of what Sun staffers and other news providers are working on for lowellsun.com and Wednesday's edition: Reporter Chris Lisinski, clisinski@lowellsun.com, is in Westford, where local police have declared one of the town's many quarries a crime scene.
As summer vacationers start to pack up and head home, Congress is considering a sweeping tally of proposals that could affect travelers, from dictating seat size and legroom to rolling back rules that require airlines to advertise the full price of a ticket.
New Jersey Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez says President Donald Trump's attack on NBA star LeBron James is part of a larger pattern of racist behavior. Menendez wrote in a tweet Monday that Trump wouldn't have questioned James' intelligence or charity work if he were white.
Sen. Rand Paul still hasn't persuaded his colleagues to audit the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy. Perhaps lawmakers could simply agree that the Fed should stop destroying documents.
In this Aug. 26, 2017 photo provided by Kyle Reardon, Dimitri Shein, back center, poses with his family, back row from left, Vincent, Joy, Victoria, wife, Melissa; front row, left to right, Genevieve, Mica, and Madelyn at Point Woronzof in Anchorage, Alaska. Shein, a Russian immigrant, is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Alaska and is one of four candidates competing in the Aug. 21 primary.
It's primary season in Wyoming again. The primaries are when we pick which Republican we are going to elect to not accomplish a single thing that is important to us as a state.
As one of the internet's most controversial personalities, making outlandish claims and spreading conspiracy theories through his Infowars website has made Jones a household name in political circles. Initially, it was for his baseless accusation that 9/11 was an inside job , but in the past couple years, he's claimed surviving high schoolers from a Parkland, Florida, shooting are "crisis actors."
President Donald Trump endorsed Kris Kobach ahead of Tuesday's Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary. The endorsement doesn't come as a surprise, but should Kobach win, it could cost the Republican Party a governor's seat in deep red Kansas.
Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole endorsed Gov. Jeff Colyer in the state's Tuesday Republican gubernatorial primary, a split with Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential nominee, tweeted his support for Colyer, whom he called "our best choice to win tomorrow AND in the fall." Proud to support Jeff Colyer for Governor-our best choice to win tomorrow AND in the Fall.
Kris Kobach has emerged as the outright favorite to win the GOP nomination in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary after winning an endorsement via Twitter from Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Trump's tweet calling Kobach a "fantastic guy" came just hours before the polls open, and represents the first time the president has endorsed a candidate running against a Republican incumbent in a primary. The unlucky incumbent is Gov. Jeff Colyer , a former surgeon with years of experience in the state legislature, and a far more traditional candidate than Kobach has been.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has accused Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke of taking money from a political action committee, in violation of O'Rourke's pledge not to take such donations. O'Rourke has consistently outraised Cruz, including announcing a quarterly $10.4 million fundraising haul last month, despite the attention-grabbing vow to ban PAC money from his campaign coffers.
U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio argued the benefits of gun ownership to a tiny toy doughnut in the latest episode of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new prank show.
Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party's Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they'll be the ones who end up paying the price.
A United States senator who met with Russian lawmakers in Moscow said he invited them to visit Washington and they accepted Monday. Rand Paul is an American politician physician and 2016 Presidential Candidate.