JUNEAU – Monday, Senator Berta Gardner (D-Anchorage) introduced a Sense of the Senate denouncing Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind what is known as the “Cole memo” limiting the conditions of prosecution on state-licensed cannabis businesses. The Senate Majority made a motion to table the Sense of the Senate until March 7. “It is […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is claiming credit for beginning the end of what President Donald Trump has termed “American Carnage,” a spike in violent crime during 2015 and 2016, the final two years of the Obama administration. In an opinion piece published Tuesday in USA Today, Sessions pointed to preliminary FBI data showing […]
Candidates in a special election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate have a final chance Monday to convince voters that they are the best choice to represent the state of Alabama. “We know who we are, Alabama,” Democratic candidate Doug Jones told supporters at a get out the vote rally late Sunday. “This […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has effectively blocked President Donald Trump from making any appointments while the lawmakers are on their August break. The politicians have agreed to a procedural quirk known as pro forma sessions — a series of brief meetings that will technically keep the Senate in session. Senators took the action after Trump’s […]