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The Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Wisconsin is suggesting that President Donald Trump's administration wants to create a "superior race," a comment that's drawing the ire of Republicans.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., with Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, left, joined by former students from Holton Arms School, speaks to reporters in support of professor Christine Blasey Ford, who is accusing Supreme Court... . Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, walks through a tunnel towards the Dirksen Senate Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, were asked Friday night -- in what moderators intended to be a polite end to their first debate -- to say something nice about each other. O'Rourke began by praising Cruz's work ethic and his family's sacrifice.
Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke repeatedly traded barbs during a testy first debate Friday night, underscoring how a Texas Senate race that long looked like a cakewalk for the conservative incumbent now appears to be anything but one. Cruz went on the attack moments after stepping on the stage, charging that his opponent suggested that police officers embodied "modern-day Jim Crow" laws in response to a question about a Dallas policewoman who shot and killed her unarmed, black neighbor after saying she mistakenly entered his apartment, thinking it was her own.
In this Sept. 6, 2018 photo, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh reacts as he testifies after questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center today examined issues central to the former Louisiana governor's tenure during its inaugural colloquium. Former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu moderated the program.
And whether Christine Blasey Ford will tell her story to the Senate Judiciary Committee is still up in the air. As senators march closer to a scheduled vote Monday on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Ford and her attorneys are still negotiating whether she will appear before the panel to testify about the alleged sexual assault by Kavanaugh.
Ken Blackwell is Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at Family Research Council. This article appeared in American Thinker on September 20, 2018.
President Trump on Friday questioned the credibility of the woman who has said Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were both teenagers. He said that if the attack "was as bad as she says," it would have been reported to the authorities.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last year suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump and using the 25th Amendment to forcibly remove him from office, the New York Times reported Friday. The extraordinary report from the Times describes an unprecedented consideration of the invocation of the 25th Amendment, may further jeopardize Rosenstein's position within the administration, and paints him in a deeply unflattering light even as it further calls into question Trump's fitness for office.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire-Susan Collins's message to President Donald Trump appears to be keep your mouth shut and your Twitter feed silent when it comes to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who's accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. And the Republican senator from Maine, speaking Friday evening at an event at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, said she believes that her GOP colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee should accommodate Ford's request to testify later next week, rather than on Monday as initially requested.
The Greene County Democratic Party is urging 1st District Congressional candidates to debate in Greeneville - a central location in a district that stretches over a large swath of northeast Tennessee. Incumbent Republican Dr. Phil Roe, of Johnson City, and Democratic candidate Dr. Marty Olsen, of Johnson City, are vying to represent the 1st Congressional District, which encompasses 12 counties, from Sevierville and Sneedville in the west to Mountain City in the eastern most corner of the state.
The president is in Missouri to campaign for state attorney general Josh Hawley, who is challenging incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. Trump has been campaigning aggressively to help the Senate expand its narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate.
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump threatened Friday to rid his own Department of Justice of a "lingering stench," hours after a report that a top official in the department had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Deputy Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein denied a report in the New York Times on Friday that he had spoken with senior officials in Trump's administration about the 25th Amendment.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording President Donald Trump last year amid law enforcement concerns about chaos in the White House, according to people familiar with exchanges at the time. But one person who was present said Rosenstein was just being sarcastic.
The highly anticipated debate features Cruz, who prides himself on what he believes are strong debating skills , against a challenger who is polling even with in a state that has not elected a Democrat to statewide office in a generation.
The US Senate Judiciary chairman has rejected key conditions that Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh's accuser wants if she is to testify about her claim of sexual assault. Senator Chuck Grassley said his panel would vote on Monday on Mr Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination without an agreement.
Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and victim advocates Friday blasted President Trump for suggesting the woman accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers would've contacted police at the time if it was "as bad as she says." "Sexual assault is severely under-reported because of the stigma and harassment that so often follows after survivors speak out," said US Representative Katherine Clark, a Melrose Democrat and former prosecutor, in a statement.
A "ski jump" at the end of the flight deck will allow fighter jets to take off with little runway. A "ski jump" at the end of the flight deck will allow fighter jets to take off with little runway.
Protesters opposed to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrate in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept.