“It’s not really been a great week for the pro-life movement,” former Family Research Council Action Vice President Tom McClusky said Wednesday, opening his remarks for the “Beyond Dobbs” panel at the National Conservatism Conference. McCluskey was lamenting the triple whammy of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) accepting the legality of the abortion drug mifepristone, then […]
A new report from Senate Democratic staff shows the cascading effects of abortion bans across all states, even those where the procedure is still legal. The report, led by staff of Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and joined by all the Democratic women senators, as well as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), was based off interviews...
The Supreme Court's majority opinion in the presidential immunity case is a stark example of cherry-picking text and history, which could threaten democracy itself.
Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) is adding her voice to the growing calls for President Biden to step down, becoming the 10th Democrat to urge the president to drop out of the White House race Thursday. “President Biden has spent his life serving our nation and building the next generation of American leadership," Scholten, who represents...
The House on Thursday rejected a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” of Congress and fine him $10,000 per day that he does not turn over audio tapes from President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) had spearheaded the effort, forcing a vote on the...
Ten House Republicans joined most Democrats on Thursday in sinking GOP-led legislation to fund the legislative branch for fiscal year 2025, throwing an embarrassing wrench in GOP leadership's ambitious plan to pass all 12 annual funding bills by the August recess. The bill failed 205-213. Three Democrats voted in favor of it. It is the...
Multiple civil rights groups are asking the Departments of Justice and Education to investigate the police response to the campus protests surrounding the Israel-Hamas war this academic year. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the National Urban League and numerous Arab and Jewish groups are demanding civil rights investigations into multiple schools that saw demonstrations, including...
The Democrat who defeated President Biden in the American Samoa Democratic caucuses this year has joined the chorus of Democrats calling on the president to step aside in the presidential race. Jason Palmer said in a phone interview with Semafor this week that one of his priorities is planning a trip to Wilmington, Del., to...
The solution — and indeed a great opportunity for the Democrats — I believe, is a truly open, transparent, “blitz primary” which would lead to a truly open convention.
Four in 10 cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths among U.S. adults 30 years old and older in 2019 were linked to "modifiable" risk factors like smoking, drinking, poor diet and not getting vaccinated, according to a new study from the American Cancer Society. Lead author of the study Farhad Islami, senior scientific...