[content id=”79272″] “Raise your hand if you DON’T want a speaker of the House who is hellbent on cutting your hard-earned Social Security and Medicare,” said one Democratic state lawmaker. In the midst of the second vote on U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s nomination to be the next House Speaker on Wednesday, one right-wing lawmaker cut […]
[content id=”79272″] Nearly two dozen of Jordan’s GOP colleagues opposed him for the leadership role. An aggressive pressure campaign to convince holdouts in the Republican Party to back far-right Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Wednesday was unsuccessful, with 22 GOP lawmakers voting against the Ohio congressman in the second round of voting—two more […]
[content id=”79272″] A U.S. federal judge in Washington imposed a partial gag order Monday on former President Donald Trump, restricting what he can say about his impending trial on charges that he illegally tried to overturn his 2020 reelection loss. Judge Tanya Chutkan barred Trump, the leading Republican presidential contender for 2024, from attacking prosecutors, […]
“Let’s be clear. This was directly connected to the dehumanizing of Palestinians that has been allowed over the last week by our media, by our elected officials,” said one Illinois state lawmaker. U.S. civil rights defenders on Monday condemned the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in Illinois, an alleged hate crime that […]