Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.
The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.
The latest iteration of a benchmark Iowa poll shows Joe Biden leading, with Bernie Sanders sinking and looking at several candidates closing in on him.
At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.
Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.
John Kasich hasn’t shut the door completely, but recent comments seem to make it clear he’s not likely to take on the President for the Republican nomination.
Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.
While mildly embarrassing, it’s unlikely to have much impact on the race.
A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.
David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.
Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.
Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.
Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.
It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.
A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.
Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.
Quietly, Elizabeth Warren has been campaigning and putting out policy proposals while also appearing to gain ground on her closest rival, Bernie Sanders.
The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.
Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.
In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.
A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.
No, abolishing the EC would not turn farmers into serfs.
John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.
Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.
So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.
More proportional than the GOP, but perhaps not as proportional as one might think.
Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.
An investigation has found that a doctor linked to Ohio State’s wrestling program abused more than 170 students during his time at the school.
Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.
More good news for Joe Biden, this time out of South Carolina.
The President’s eldest son has been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
The New York Times has obtained about ten years worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the late eighties to early nineties. They don’t tell us much that we didn’t already know.
Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.
California is the latest state to try to force all Presidential candidates, including the President, to release their tax returns as a condition for getting on the ballot. It’s not at all clear that this is permitted under the Constitution.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared “case closed” on the Mueller Report and the Russia investigation. This is far from the truth.
Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.
The Treasury Secretary is declining to comply with a Congressional request for the President’s tax returns. Whether this is proper is a question that will have to be resolved by the courts.
Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.
Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.
There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.
A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.
Democratic House members are finding that their constituents aren’t quite as eager for impeachment as some party activists are.
Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.
One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.
