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Hours after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement set off a political earthquake, President Donald Trump told supporters in North Dakota he wants to pick a replacement who can serve for more than four decades and cement a conservative majority on the high court. "We have to pick a great one, we have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years," Trump told a rally during at a hockey arena in Fargo, N.D. "We need intellect, we need so many things."
State Rep. Abby Finkenauer was hoping a Democratic "blue wave" would carry her to victory in Iowa's 1st Congressional District and make her the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday urged Vice President Mike Pence to press Ecuador's government over asylum it grants to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Sen. Robert Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and nine other Democratic senators said in a letter to Pence that they were extremely concerned over Ecuador's protection of Assange at its embassy in London.
Trump tweeted before Wednesday's flight to Fargo that he was en route to "fully stand with and endorse" Cramer. Cramer serves in the U.S. House and Trump says he's an "extraordinary Congressman."
Anthony Kennedy's decision to retire set off another political skirmish Wednesday, as Senate Democrats, including from Illinois, demanded a replacement be put off until after the midterm elections.
Various civil rights groups are backing calls from Democratic lawmakers to hold off on a vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement until after the November elections. Vanita Gupta, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, says senators need to put country over party and use every tool to stop what she calls President Donald Trump's plan "to take over the Supreme Court for the next 40 years."
People caught flying a drone over a wildfire could face federal felony charges if three of Colorado's federal lawmakers convince Congress to pass their bill. Sens. Cory Gardner , Michael Bennet and Rep. Scott Tipton introduced the Securing Airspace For Emergency Responders Act Wednesday.
New York: In the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, many progressive Americans dared to believe that maybe, just maybe, his election victory would not prove as consequential as they first feared. Yes, a man they thought dangerous and demagogic was in the White House but the other branches of government - Congress and the courts - were providing an effective brake on executive power.
In this March 2, 2011, file photo, Ohio state Sen. Bill Seitz discusses a bill about collective bargaining rights for public employees, during a floor debate in Columbus, Ohio. A law firm where Seitz worked for 36 years, retained by the state attorney general's office to independently investigate a complaint by a female House employee, concluded in April 2018 that the Republican lawmaker from Cincinnati had not violated the House's anti-harassment policy in remarks at an off-site party the employee claimed "glorified a sexual harasser and minimized his victim and all victims of sexual harassment."
In this July 26, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump, waves as he departs with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, and Terry Gou, president and chief executive officer of Foxconn, after an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The ceremonial groundbreaking for a massive $10 billion Foxconn factory complex in Wisconsin was supposed to be evidence that the manufacturing revival fueled by President Donald Trump's "America First" policy is well underway.
New York voters denied longtime House Democratic Caucus chairman Joe Crowley an 11th term, instead backing 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist and former organizer for Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. "It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same," Ocasio-Cortez said in her viral campaign announcement video.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media regarding the announcement that Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is retiring, during his meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. less President Donald Trump speaks to the media regarding the announcement that Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is retiring, during his meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in ... more FILe - In this Feb. 18, 1988, file photo Anthony Kennedy, left, takes the constitutional oath as a Supreme Court Associate Justice from Chief Justice William Rehnquist at a White House ceremony in Washington.
In 1938, Franklin Roosevelt, coming off two consecutive landslide victories, the second of which amassed 523 Electoral College votes and a nearly 25 percent popular vote margin, attempted to force wayward members of his party to support his agenda. Democrats in Congress had been bottling up his agenda and rebelling at his campaign to enlarge the Supreme Court , but despite barnstorming the country and imploring his supporters to nominate pro-Roosevelt Democrats, the campaign ended in failure.
Mitt and Ann Romney are greeted by a supporter during the Strawberry Day Parade Saturday, June 23, 2018, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Romney is flashing his familiar smile at city parks and backyards in Utah's mountains and suburbs this week, making his final pitch after being forced into a Republican primary against a conservative state lawmaker.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old who's never held elected office, ousted New York City Congressman Joe Crowley. Crowley had been considered a candidate to become House speaker if Democrats win the majority in November.
Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being because the government is running short of space to house them, officials said on Monday. President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to prosecute all adults who cross the border illegally but its policy of separating immigrant children from parents met fierce international criticism so it is now trying to keep detained families together while the parents await trial.
Chelsea Manning has lost her bid to run for the Senate in Maryland after being beaten to the Democratic nomination by Senator Ben Cardin. He beat out Manning - the convicted leaker of U.S. government secrets - and six other longshot challengers in Tuesday's crowded primary and will face Tony Campbell in the November general election.
A bitterly personal matchup in New York between a convicted felon seeking to reclaim his congressional seat from a former prosecutor is among dozens of key races in seven U.S. states on Tuesday, as voters pick candidates for November elections that will determine control of Congress. Voters in Colorado, Maryland, South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma and Mississippi will also select competitors for the Nov. 6 elections, when Democrats will seek to wrest control of Congress from U.S. President Donald Trump's Republican Party.
A federal judge says Kentucky can't require poor people to get a job to keep their Medicaid benefits, chastising President Donald Trump's administration for rubber-stamping the new rules without considering how many people would lose their health coverage. The decision is a setback for the Trump administration, which has been encouraging states to impose work requirements and other changes on Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled.