Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, pointed to past Republican defiance of court orders on redistricting as he reacted to the Virginia Supreme Court striking down the commonwealth’s new congressional map Friday. “I’m old enough to remember when Republicans in Ohio just ignored court rulings repeatedly and did it anyway,” Platner...
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison on Friday fired back at MS NOW host Jen Psaki after she accused him of seeking a "deputy president" role. Psaki made the remark in an interview on the "Nobody Knows Anything" podcast, where she said Harrison thought he would "have a seat at the policy-making table"...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Trump Accounts for children born from 2025-28 could open the door to Americans paying their payroll taxes into personal accounts invested in the stock market instead of to the federal government, which has borrowed from the Social Security trust fund for years. Cruz suggested at a panel discussion at the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday it is seeking to denaturalize a dozen people from various parts of the country who are accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship. Federal prosecutors filed denaturalization actions in U.S. District Courts across the country this week against 12 people, alleging they lied during the naturalization process, including about...
White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he's "sure" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have detained U.S. citizens, "but we don't deport them." Homan told reporters outside the White House that U.S. citizens have "nothing to fear." "We deport people that are going to be deportable," he continued. "We arrest people that will...
California will become the first state to provide free diapers to newborns starting this summer under a new program Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Friday. Under the “Golden State Start” initiative, every newborn in the state will receive 400 diapers when they are discharged from participating hospitals. “The big problem defined universally in our city,...
Shell-shocked Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces after the Virginia Supreme Court quashed a new map designed to help them seize control of the House in November’s midterms. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that were expected to flip to the Democrats’ side in the Old Dominion. And it constitutes an enormous...
A judge Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., once appointed helped torpedo Virginia Democrats' redistricting effort, which Warner poured cash, time and effort into getting passed.