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Politics Strategic Debate in Gorsuch Battle: Use Filibuster Now or Later? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky after a news conference today. The Republican majority led by Mr. McConnell has hinted strongly that it intends to change longstanding rules to elevate Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court with a…
Republicans Go Nuclear, and Senators Point Fingers Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader, called the nuclear option “the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations” that weakened the Senate’s check on the president’s ability to shape the judiciary. Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, accused the Democrats of an “unprecedented partisan…
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes said Thursday he was stepping aside from the investigation into Russian interference in the election and possible ties to Trump campaign aides due to a congressional ethics probe into allegations he made “unauthorized disclosures of classified information.” In a statement, Nunes said he made the decision to “temporarily”…
BuzzFeed News; Getty Images At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that former national security adviser Susan Rice had requested the “unmasking” of Americans connected to the Trump campaign who were incidentally mentioned in surveillance readouts. At 7:30, the owner of the Twitter account MicroMagicJingleTM noticed, and began blasting out…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” The Unfit President Unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama before him, Trump doesn’t seem to care about working out or eating healthy. Google Metadata Michelle Kondrich / The Atlantic When Teddy Roosevelt was in office, he had the White House basement coated with mats. An avid martial…
First Family Jared Kushner, White House C.E.O. and Trump Princeling, Visits Iraq The First Son-in-Law cements his power in the White House with a surprise trip to Baghdad. Jared Kushner prior to a meeting with automobile industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room, January 24, 2017. From AP Photo. It was a mostly sunny, milder-than-average 70…
In pop culture years, 2012 was ages ago. But try to remember. That was the year quarterback Alex Smith suffered a concussion in the first half of the Niners game against the Rams in Week 10, and a backup QB named Colin Kaepernick had to fill in. The game ended in a tie, the NFL’s…
This week, Senate Republicans plan to try to move to a vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Then Senate Democrats plan to try to filibuster Gorsuch to block that vote — and if they can keep 41 of their 48 senators together, as now seems likely, they’ll succeed. And then, if…
Calfornia Rep. Devin Nunes is in the soup a bit at the moment because he’s been conducting the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the Trump-Russia-wiretapping scandal in such a way that seems designed to serve the interests of the White House rather than, like, the public. (Most prominently, Nunes announced that he’d seen classified information…
Digital security and its discontents—from Hillary Clinton’s emails to ransomware to Tor hacks—is in many ways one of the chief concerns of the contemporary FBI. So it makes sense that the bureau’s director, James Comey, would dip his toe into the digital torrent with a Twitter account. It also makes sense, given Comey’s high profile,…