At the beginning of his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was forced to listen to a lengthy list of all his alleged failings and controversies while serving in the Justice Department (DOJ) – and the White House immediately rushed to Blanche’s defense in a sc…
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In a puff profile on Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the Wall Street Journal, the embattled House Speaker complained at length about his job and “demurred” when asked if he wanted to keep it.The Louisiana Republican, now nearly three years into his tenure as speaker, admitted he is under relentless pr…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is slated to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and is expected to face tough questions from members on a number of topics, chief among them his role in the Justice Department’s botched release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.After firin…
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett testified on the need for greater security funding for the Supreme Court, a development that comes after years of threats of violence against judges and occasional horrific murders.But MAGA activists’ reaction to the news was to call for Barrett to resign from…
In the wake of another ICE killing of an innocent man in Biddeford, Maine, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough pounced on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). On Wednesday, the ‘Morning Joe’ co-host went on an extended rant where he raked Collins over the coals over her promise to investigate previous ICE killings when…
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), under fire in her home state after a father was gunned down on Monday by ICE agents she helped fund, is about to suffer another blow courtesy of President Donald Trump, a political analyst argued Wednesday.Appearing on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, John Heilemann said th…
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) declaration that he was not aware of any of the details about the shooting of a young father in Maine by ICE agents earned him a tongue-lashing on MS NOW early Wednesday morning. “Morning Joe” opened with a clip of the GOP leader blowing off questions from a repor…
A growing number of former colleagues of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche have united ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing to beg he not be confirmed. Prosecutors Mimi Rocah and Perry A. Carbone penned Wednesday morning an MS NOW editorial in which they explained why they’ve joined hundreds…
Some parts of President Donald Trump’s upcoming national address, as teased in the media, received an icy reception on CNN. Trump is scheduled to give a national address on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET. Ahead of the speech, some reporters have noted that Trump plans to declare Democratic Sens. Raphael Warn…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a court that he isn’t deleting sensitive information discussed on Signal — then his lawyers had to retract that claim after he did precisely that.According to The Atlantic, Rubio, “like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates …