Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update tackled the election of Mike Johnson as the new Speaker of the House, along with Donald Trump‘s latest legal woes. “After weeks of strugglingto elect a new Speaker of theHouse, Republicans gave up andjust generated one with A.I.,” co-anchor Colin Jost began. “There’s no way …
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The Alliance Defending Freedom has been busy this year. Its senior legal council, Matt Sharp, has been on the move, parachuting into different state courthouses to testify or voice support for some of the record-shattering 501 anti-LGBTQ bills that have been introduced in legislatures this year — more than 70 …
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson is eager to send military aid to Israel but is not willing to prioritize aid to Ukraine as it continues to suffer under attack from Vladimir Putin’s army. “We are going to move a stand-alone Israeli funding bill,” said Johnson during an appearance on Fox …
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Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House yesterday and the late-night hosts have weighed in on his selection following a long, dramatic process from Republicans. On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon noted that the Republicans finally elected someone after three weeks of delays. “Yep, they found someone just in …
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Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings. The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, …
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Late Tuesday night, Louisiana’s Mike Johnson became the fourth Republican representative nominated for House Speaker since Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy from the position earlier this month. The decision to nominate Johnson, a key architect of congressional efforts to challenge the 2020 election results, drew glowing praise from former President Donald …
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Mike Johnsonis the new Speaker of the House. The Louisiana Republican won the gavel on Wednesday, three chaos-filled weeks after the partyoustedKevin McCarthy from the position earlier this month. Republicans voted unanimously to make him second in line to the presidency. Johnson, who was elected to the House in 2016, …
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