It’s official: Democrats have clinched control of the U.S. Senate. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, one of the Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents, has fended off a challenge from conservative nepobaby Adam Laxalt and guaranteed her party at least 50 seats in the Senate. With the tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala …
Read More »Clarence Thomas Blocks Lindsey Graham's Election Meddling Testimony … For Now
Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas has temporarily halted an order compelling Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to testify before an Atlanta grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. Graham was subpoenaed in July along with several other figures tied to the …
Read More »Mike Pence Says Stripping Women of Rights More Important Than Midterm Gains
Former Vice President Mike Pence says he believes implementing a national abortion ban and continuing the conservative fight to restrict bodily autonomy for women “is profoundly more important than any short-term politics.” The comments came in an interview with RealClearPolitics, during which Pence urged his fellow Republicans not to “shrink …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Introduces Nationwide Abortion Ban Weeks After Saying It's Up to States
Lindsey Graham introduced a federal abortion ban on Tuesday, just weeks after declaring the issue should be left to the states. “I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say that after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand,” the South Carolina senator said at a …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Has to Testify in Georgia Election Meddling Probe, Judge Rules
Lindsey Graham will have to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating Donald Trump‘s push to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. The South Carolina senator had been fighting a subpoena for testimony issued last month. He lost the fight on Monday. “[T]he Court finds that the District …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Would Like States to Decide If LGBTQ People Count as Fully Human
Sen. Lindsey Graham said he wants states to decide the issue of whether two consenting adults can get married.When Dana Bash asked him if he would support legislation codifying same sex marriage, Graham claimed it’s a state issue during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “[Sen. Rob …
Read More »Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham Subpoenaed in Trump Election Meddling Probe
The Fulton County grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s alleged meddling in Georgia‘s 2020 presidential election has slapped a bevy of subpoenas on several figures tied to the former president, including Rudy Giuliani and Lindsey Graham. John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesbro, and Jenna Ellis — all of which were involved …
Read More »Jan. 6 Audio: Lindsey Graham Was Excited That Biden, Not Trump, Would Be in Office After Capitol Attack
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that as the Capitol Police were clearing out Congress following the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, Lindsey Graham‘s mind was on politics. The senator from South Carolina was thinking specifically about how the riot could rally the nation, and who the best …
Read More »Ted Cruz and Fox News Are Desperate to Convince America That Conservatives Are the Real Victims in the War on Abortion
Fox News hosts and Republican politicians have spent the past year plus downplaying the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, a familiar refrain being that the breach of Congress that resulted in five deaths and dozens of injuries was a “peaceful protest.” The same conservative hosts and politicians have …
Read More »Republicans and Democrats Unite To Slam Lindsey Graham for Calling for Putin's Assassination
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday night fired off a tweet so irresponsible that it united Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Graham wrote that the “only” way out of the crisis in eastern Europe is for Russians to assassinate President Vladimir …
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