Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) put acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the spot during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday about his personal crypto dealings and his transfer of wealth to members of his family.The ranking committee minority leader switched gears on the Donald Trump appoin…
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…
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill — which gave the top 1% fully $118 billion this year in tax cuts — turns a year old this week and Republicans in Congress actually celebrated the largest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid in American history.They told us it was about fraud, about lazy people gaming the …
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…
You cannot be a prominent spokesperson for Donald Trump and not live in a liminal space of existential hypocrisy, and so perhaps one shouldn’t be all that hard on White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who had a less-than-fantastic holiday and summer-opening; it is, after all, her job to defend …
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…