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For months now, Leonard Leo — a conservative legal activist with a billion-dollar slush fund and an influential hand in the workings of the Supreme Court — has been refusing to comply with a Senate subpoena regarding his financial relationship with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Senate Democrats sent …

The House voted on Wednesday on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown at the end of the month, just weeks before the November election. The vote failed, with Republicans striking down their own bill to keep the government open. The bill going down 202-220 …

United States Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who represented her Houston district in Congress for nearly 30 years, during which time she led the effort to make Juneteenth a federal holiday and helped author the Violence Against Women Act, has died at the age of 74. The congresswoman’s family …

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. While the articles are unlikely to pass muster in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, the move is a rebuke to the two conservative justices, who have recently been accused of improper relationships …

Donald Trump may be the first American president convicted of a felony, but he has no plans to let his conviction stand — and he’s enlisting congressional Republicans to help him undermine the case. According to a report from Politico, shortly after his May 31 conviction, an enraged Trump called …

Republicans voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over the Justice Department’s refusal to turn over audio recordings of interviews President Joe Biden gave to Special Counsel Robert Hur. The 216-207 vote came down largely on party lines. In January of last year, Garland …

Republican lawmakers in the House have recently been skirting their legislative duties to make unholy pilgrimages to Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. They’re now using whatever time they do spend legislating to silence references to the former president’s many ongoing legal issues on the House floor. On Tuesday, …

On Thursday, a hearing of the Congressional Oversight Committee descended into chaos after repeated outbursts from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Tensions throughout the proceeding reached a tipping point in a heated exchange between Greene, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) after Greene made a comment attacking …

The Department of Justice has charged Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar with participating in a scheme to commit “bribery, unlawful foreign influence, and money laundering,” according to an indictment unsealed Friday. Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, are accused of accepting “approximately $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities: an …

For all the time Republicans spend complaining about the economic struggles faced by everyday Americans, they remain steadfast in their commitment to ensuring major corporations can continue squeezing their customers. Late Wednesday afternoon, the GOP-controlled House Financial Services Committee voted to advance a bill that would repeal a new Consumer …