The Supreme Court ruled that states and individuals lacked standing to sue the government for its actions in censoring speech online, but the dissenters criticized the majority for not addressing the serious threat to the First Amendment.
A majority of Democrats in a new survey said they support President Biden withdrawing from the White House race, as questions swirl around his mental acuity and ability to serve another four years if reelected. The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, published Thursday, found 56 percent of Democrats say they think the president should step aside...
The Chevron doctrine was never meant to become, as it sometimes has over time, an invitation for agencies to implement agendas that extend beyond the law.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) pushed back on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) suggestion that President Biden reconsider his decision to stay in the race by questioning Pelosi’s knowledge about running for higher office, noting that she spent her entire Washington career in the House. “I would say, as far as I know, she’s never run...
Mainstream outlets have opened the floodgates and gotten real about Biden’s mental fitness.
Former President Trump went after George Clooney Wednesday evening after the actor wrote an op-ed pushing for President Biden to leave the White House race. “So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “He’s...
It's startling how far today’s Supreme Court has moved from that unanimous decision in United States v. Nixon.
Court reformers need a new approach, a democratic agenda for the courts to restore the rule of law.
An advocacy group that opposes environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing launched a broad public relations effort to shape negotiations around a new farm bill. Consumers’ Research, a leading anti-ESG group, wrote to top lawmakers on agricultural issues in a letter obtained first by The Hill and launched billboards and television ads warning against the...
It’s two weeks since the June 27 debate between President Biden and former President Trump in Atlanta sent the political world into tumult. Biden’s disastrous performance in that clash has led to calls for him to quit the race, speculation over who might replace him, and Democratic worries that their national convention, set for Chicago...
President Biden on Thursday will enter another high-stakes moment in his re-election campaign when, under heavy scrutiny, he will face the media in a rare solo press conference where he is sure to be met with a barrage of questions over whether he can stay in the race. The press conference will close out the...
The House Freedom Caucus, long known for being at the center of strife in the House GOP, is at a crossroads that leaves the hard-right group’s influence in question. Its ouster of Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), just the latest to face retribution in this Congress after being seen as insufficiently loyal, is exposing bitter division,...
Democratic lawmakers and donors are expressing uncertainty about whether President Biden will be able to pass several key tests over the next few days to remain the party’s likely nominee for president. And while they acknowledge that it’s ultimately up to Biden to decide whether to continue his bid for a second term, some are...
A Republican effort to target a Washington, D.C., law aimed at protecting employees’ reproductive rights is endangering a spending bill GOP leadership hopes to pass later this month. House GOP moderates are taking issue with a policy rider within the annual financial services and general government (FSGG) funding bill, which contains funding for the district...
Senate Democrats worry that the turmoil over President Biden will haunt them until the convention in August, making for a painful 40 days and weakening the party going into the fall. Even as they've resigned themselves to the reality that Biden will likely remain atop the ticket, they fear a slow drip of polls, possible...
President Biden is facing calls to undergo cognitive testing and release the results after his disastrous debate last month, and amid a series of reports about his apparent decline in recent months. Concerns were only fanned further when public records brought to attention that a neurologist who specializes in Parkinson's disease had visited the White...
Heather Slavkin Corzo, most recently a policy director at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is joining Mindset as a principal. She was previously director of capital markets policy at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), head of U.S. policy at the Principles for Responsible Investment and a senior fellow...
The Biden administration will dole out $1.7 billion to automotive companies to bolster their efforts to manufacture electric cars, trucks and motorcycles. The funds, which will cover 11 projects, are expected to help companies transition their facilities to electric vehicle manufacturing or to help them expand existing electric vehicle operations. An administration official told reporters...
The Arkansas secretary of state on Wednesday rejected an effort for an abortion-rights ballot measure that would ensure access to the procedure up to 18 weeks in the state. In a letter to Arkansas for Limited Government — the group behind the effort — Secretary of State John Thurston said the group did not submit...
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on Wednesday slammed the House GOP effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in "inherent contempt" on Congress, calling it a "stupid resolution." “This is a stupid resolution,” McGovern said on the House floor. "Republican leadership knows this is a stupid resolution. Their own members know this is a stupid resolution. But they’re...
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) shut down the speculation around former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) comments about if President Biden should step aside. Coons, a close Biden ally, joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday evening to discuss the president’s political future as concerns remain nearly two weeks after his poor debate performance. Earlier Wednesday, Pelosi said...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) said on Wednesday he only watched parts of last month's debate between former President Trump and President Biden, but believes the incumbent is the "best opportunity" to defeat the former president. Fox News host Jesse Watters, speaking with Fetterman, asked the senator, "You saw the debate, just like we all saw...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), a vocal advocate of President Biden, said he strongly disagrees with Sen. Peter Welch after the Vermont Democrat called for the president to step aside. “Senator Welch, I mean, he’s a good friend and he’s the nicest dude in D.C. I’ve said that on the record,” Fetterman told CNN’s Erin Burnett...
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) on Wednesday became the first Senate Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. Welch wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that while he has “great respect” for the president, who he calls one of the best of his lifetime, it is time for Biden to step...
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, has joined Vogue as a political correspondent ahead of the 2024 election, the magazine announced Wednesday. Schlossberg, the 31-year-old son of U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, told the magazine he believes the stakes of the 2024 election are "very high" and that he is worried about the...