Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm President Biden’s pick to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. The 53-47 vote went as expected, with all 50 Democrats voting to confirm Jackson, along with three Republicans: …
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday joined a long list of high-profile figures in Washington, D.C., who have contracted Covid-19 in the past few days. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic,” Drew …
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Alexandra Preate, a longtime aide and spokesperson for former President Donald Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon, was interviewed Tuesday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Preate’s interview comes as the committee is preparing to hold public hearings about its investigation. Bannon, …
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to hold Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas issued by the Jan. 6 committee. The resolution passed 220-203, with two Republicans joining Democrats in voting to refer the two Trump aides to the Justice …
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn last month asked Ketanji Brown Jackson how she defines a woman. It’s a ludicrous question and the Supreme Court nominee was right to decline to answer it. “I’m not a biologist,” Jackson said during the hearing. The exchange threw right-wing media and bigoted Republican lawmakers into a …
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is almost certainly going to become the first Black woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court later this week. Senate Democrats appear to be united in supporting President Biden’s nominee, and three Republican senators — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney — have said they …
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The Senate Judiciary Committee was split on whether to approve the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. The vote on Monday went as expected, with the committee’s Democrats voting in favor of holding a Senate-wide confirmation vote, and the Republicans opposing her nomination’s advancement. The vote was …
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Herschel Walker, the former star running back who is now former President Trump’s pick for Senate in Georgia, repeatedly lied about his academic background, a CNN report found. Walker in December admitted that he did not graduate from the University of Georgia after the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported that he claimed …
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Workers in Staten Island, New York, have voted to form the first union inside an Amazon warehouse in the United States. The election, conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, saw a vote count of 2,654 in favor and 2,131 against. If the board certifies the results, employees at the …
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What if the Supreme Court approved a new kind of weapon in the culture wars but only one side used it? With Idaho last week becoming the second state to pass a bounty-style abortion ban, it seems this is exactly what’s happening. Red states are lining up to copy the …
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