Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia investigation — that Schumer said the president was under investigation after he, Schumer, had been specifically told by the FBI that Trump was not — is shedding new light on the events that led to the president’s […]
FLASHBACK: Schumer Warned Trump in January Over Deep-State Revenge…
Trump Wants September Shutdown to Kill Legislative Filibuster…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed ending filibusters of legislation in the Senate and allowing bills to pass via a simple majority — while calling for a government shutdown in September seemingly to force such a momentous change. Trump made the stunning call a day after his White House and congressional GOP leaders struggled to […]
Why Democrats Are Delighted With The Republican Spending Bill…
Why were Democrats unable to hide their enthusiasm for the latest Omnibus spending bill proposed by House Republicans? Simple: because, as the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein writes, “Dems basically got everything. It’s like they control House, Senate, & WH rather than the other way around”…
How McConnell Thwarted Obama, Then Saved the Gorsuch Nomination…
It’s a testament to the turbulence in the global affairs and the head-spinning churn of the Trump-era news cycle that the confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice — featuring a massive fight in the Senate — was treated like a second-tier story last week. In case you missed it, Neil Gorsuch is joining the Court […]
Nuclear Option Restores Constitutional Balance…
On April 6, the U.S. Senate voted 52-48 to extend Senate Democrats’ own precedent to guarantee that Supreme Court nominees can be confirmed with a simple-majority vote of 51 out of 100 senators. As an immediate result, Gorsuch was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice Friday morning by a bipartisan vote of 54-45, but the […]
Up Next for the Newly Confirmed Justice Gorsuch? Contentious Hearings and Some Hazing…
Senate GOP Uses Reid Rule to Nuke Dems’ Unprecedented SCOTUS Filibuster…
Harry Reid’s legacy is thus cemented. Democrats’ unprecedented filibuster of Judge Neil Gorsuch has been broken under the nuclear option they pioneered in 2013. Every single Republican voted to invoke the Reid Rule, including some who had expressed a strong hesitancy to do so; that’s how indefensible Democrats’ conduct has been. The Senate will now […]
Many Liberal Legal Experts Think a Gorsuch Filibuster Is a Terrible Idea…
As Senate Democrats barrel towards a filibuster of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, prominent liberal legal commentators and members of his own caucus are urging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to chart a different course. Elite legal opinion on the left is certainly not uniform with respect to the Gorsuch filibuster, but […]
The Surveillance State Behind Russia-gate by Ray McGovern & Bill Binney…
Although many details are still hazy because of secrecy – and further befogged by politics – it appears House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was informed last week about invasive electronic surveillance of senior U.S. government officials and, in turn, passed that information onto President Trump. This news presents Trump with an unwelcome but unavoidable […]