GOP voters win gerrymandering lawsuit forcing Maryland to draw new...
Several Republican voters who accused Maryland officials of redrawing a key congressional district to illegally favor Democrats won their federal lawsuit Wednesday, in a sharp rebuke of overt partisan...
View ArticleFlorida election official requests emergency hearing after judge’s ruling
A Florida supervisor of elections who was ordered to turn over any duplicate, “overvoted” or “undervoted” ballots by Saturday morning has requested an emergency hearing and filed for an extension, a...
View ArticleEx-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz builds elite PR team as he mulls White House run
Political strategists from both sides of the aisle say that by enlisting the help of this PR team Schultz is clearly signaling he is exploring a run for president. “I certainly believe in the abstract...
View ArticleTrump tweet on California wildfires ‘demeaning’ and ‘Ill-informed,’...
The leader of a union that represents a majority of California’s firefighters responded forcefully Saturday after President Trump threatened earlier in the day to cancel federal financial relief as...
View ArticleNelson lawsuit seeks to count ballots received after Election Day
Lawyers for Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson on Monday filed a federal lawsuit that claims Florida is disenfranchising voters by not counting mail-in ballots it received after Election Day. The lawsuit...
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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen talks to Robert Mueller’s team
Drew Angerer | Getty Images Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Loews Regency hotel and walks toward a taxi cab, July 27, 2018 in New York City. Michael...
View ArticleTrump team finalizing answers to Mueller probe questions, source says
President Trump’s legal team is finalizing answers to written questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and could submit them as soon as the end of this week, a source familiar with the matter...
View ArticleHere are the three main factors that drove the Democrats’ blue wave
All those demographic trends expand the pool of Democratic-leaning voters. But they’ve been offset in recent midterm elections by low rates of voting among specific Democratic constituencies, most...
View ArticleJudge rules some absentee ballots must be counted in Georgia gubernatorial...
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the results of Georgia’s gubernatorial race cannot be certified until certain absentee ballots have been counted. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Steve Jones...
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Deadline passes in contentious statewide recounts in Florida
Joe Raedle | Getty Images Florida Governor Rick Scott greets people as he makes a campaign stop at Chico’s Cuban Restaurant where he received an endorsement from the Florida Police Chiefs Association...
View ArticleKamala Harris compares ICE to KKK, gets slammed for ‘disgusting,’‘horrifying’...
California Democrat and likely 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris drew fury after comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan during a hearing on Capitol...
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Democrat Katie Porter is apparent winner in California’s 45th District
Kevin Sullivan | Digital First Media | Getty Images Katie Porter, the Democratic candidate for the 45th Congressional District, speaks to supporters on election night at the Hilton Irvine in Irvine on...
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Broward counts the wrong ballots as Florida races to finish manual recount...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Fresh off its bungled machine recount, Broward County’s second day of manual recounting temporarily stopped about an hour after it began Saturday when lawyers from both...
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Sonia Sotomayor: Brett Kavanaugh is part of Supreme Court ‘family’
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said newly appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh is part of the Supreme Court “family” whom she will judge based on his work and not by what occurred during his controversial...
View ArticleMaxine Waters wants terror finance panel to oversee foreign banks: Report
The Democratic representative also proposes to swap the word “Credit” for “Protection” in the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit subcommittee. That signals a focus on shielding consumers from...
View ArticleRyan backs Navy Admiral William McRaven after Trump attack, report says
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Monday appeared to side with retired Navy Admiral William McRaven—the official best known for overseeing the Navy SEAL mission to kill Usama bin Laden—after President...
View ArticleVoters like the economy, but don’t like him
The gulf between economic outlook and opinions on Trump may come down to poor approval of his personality and behavior — traits such as honesty, leadership and values, according to Quinnipiac’s Tim...
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Law banning female genital mutilation ruled unconstitutional; Michigan...
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested and accused of mutilating the genitalia of young girls. A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. law banning female genital mutilation was unconstitutional and...
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Comey says House Republicans subpoenaed him to testify over Clinton emails,...
Former FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday that Republicans have subpoenaed him to appear before a closed-door meeting of the House Judiciary Committee early next month. In a Thanksgiving Day...
View ArticleChief Justice John Roberts pushes back on Trump criticism of judges
In an unusual break with typical Supreme Court practice, Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday delivered a mild rebuke of President Donald Trump for calling a federal judge in California an “Obama...
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