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Top Senate Democrats Blame Debate Moderators For Leaving Candidates Bruised

Top Senate Democrats Blame Debate Moderators For Leaving Candidates Bruised

The two-night Democratic presidential debate held in Detroit, Michigan, which was hosted by CNN, has some top Democrats worried that what makes for great television will ultimately lessen the party’s chances of defeating President Donald Trump in 2020. Sen. Chuck Schumer expressed concern on Thursday over how the debates made the candidates appear to the […]

5y ago

Joe Biden Releases Video Pledging To Be ‘More Mindful Of Personal Space’ Amid Allegations

Joe Biden Releases Video Pledging To Be ‘More Mindful Of Personal Space’ Amid Allegations

As allegations from women who claim former Vice President Joe Biden touched them inappropriately continue to trickle out, Biden has released a video promising to be more “respectful” of women’s personal space. According to a report in The Hill, Biden was seeking to head off a “growing political crisis” surrounding his as-yet unannounced candidacy for […]

5y ago

Dianne Feinstein Implores Politicians To Vote For Gun Control Bills In Wake Of Thousand Oaks Shooting

Dianne Feinstein Implores Politicians To Vote For Gun Control Bills In Wake Of Thousand Oaks Shooting

In the aftermath of a shooting in Thousand Oaks that left 12 people dead — including the gunman — on Wednesday night, California Senator Dianne Feinstein sought to bring a handful of gun control bills to a vote on Thursday, according to a report from Business Insider. In the statement that she released on Thursday […]

6y ago

Senators View New Background Check On Brett Kavanaugh

Senators View New Background Check On Brett Kavanaugh

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday morning that the committee has received the supplemental background check on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as senators get their first look at the document. In a series of Twitter posts, Grassley said U.S. senators will be able to view the report in a secure area, […]

6y ago

Dianne Feinstein Asks WH Counsel & FBI Director To Release FBI Directive Defining Scope Of Investigation

Dianne Feinstein Asks WH Counsel & FBI Director To Release FBI Directive Defining Scope Of Investigation

California Senator Dianne Feinstein sent a letter Sunday to White House counsel Don McGahn and FBI Director Christopher Wray in which she requests the release of the FBI directive President Trump issued Friday. The New York Post reported that she also asked for copies of any FBI requests for expansion of the original directive. “Given […]

6y ago

Donald Trump, Jr. Lashes Out On Twitter In Defense Of Brett Kavanaugh

Donald Trump, Jr. Lashes Out On Twitter In Defense Of Brett Kavanaugh

Donald Trump, Jr. has been a staunch supporter of his father’s Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, and his support has not waned, even amid allegations of sexual assault. According to Newsweek, a woman named Christine Blasey Ford claimed that Kavanaugh groped her and forced himself upon her at a party when they were teens. Since […]

6y ago

Trump Administration Announces Refugee Cap Of 30,000 For 2019 Fiscal Year

Trump Administration Announces Refugee Cap Of 30,000 For 2019 Fiscal Year

The Trump administration decreased the cap of refugees accepted into the United States for the fiscal year of 2019 to 30,000. This is a sharp decrease from the cap of 45,000 in 2018. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on September 17 that the number would be slashed to the lowest it has been since […]

6y ago

Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Ford Willing To Testify Before Congress

Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Ford Willing To Testify Before Congress

Christine Blasey Ford has said — through her attorney — that she is willing to testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in connection to a decades-old sexual assault claim that allegedly occurred when they were both in high school, USA Today reports. Ford, 51, first made the charge in The New Yorker magazine last […]

6y ago

Brett Kavanaugh Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Matter Referred To Federal Investigators

Brett Kavanaugh Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Matter Referred To Federal Investigators

Information has come forward alleging that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a former female classmate when they were both in high school, according to the New York Times. According to officials familiar with the situation, the woman who made the claim spoke on the condition of anonymity, and thus far, all involved […]

6y ago

Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Nomination Vote To Take Place Next Week

Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Nomination Vote To Take Place Next Week

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to set a date for Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, with the party line 11-10 vote setting a date of September 20, reported CNN. While the vote is ostensibly a delay in the process, the decision follows the practice of the committee of the past. The goal of the Republicans […]

6y ago

Republicans Reject Democratic Bid To Subpoena Kavanaugh Documents

Republicans Reject Democratic Bid To Subpoena Kavanaugh Documents

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday blocked multiple efforts by Democrats to subpoena documents on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s job as staff secretary in the George W. Bush White House, the Idaho Statesman reports. Democrat Dianne Feinstein said that Senators “should be able to see this record,” adding that Republicans’ efforts to […]

6y ago

Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Finds His Judicial Ethics In Doubt

Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Finds His Judicial Ethics In Doubt

While it is almost a foregone conclusion that the United States Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, will sit on the highest court in the nation if his hearing takes place prior to mid-term elections. However, there may be reason to believe he does not deserve that honor. According to an investigation by the Washington […]

6y ago

Kevin de Leon Beats Out Dianne Feinstein For Democratic Party Endorsement in California General Election

Kevin de Leon Beats Out Dianne Feinstein For Democratic Party Endorsement in California General Election

The California Democratic Party leaders endorsed Kevin de Leon for Senate last night in what the Los Angeles Times is calling a “a stinging rebuke of Democratic icon Sen. Dianne Feinstein.” The state party was reportedly “energized” by the election of Republican President Trump, and the LA Times posits that liberal California lawmakers have soured […]

6y ago

Amy Coney Barrett, Legal Precedent And Catholicism On The Supreme Court

Amy Coney Barrett, Legal Precedent And Catholicism On The Supreme Court

At the age of 46, conservative, religious and a mother of seven, Amy Coney Barrett made President Trump’s shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. If Trump selects her, Barrett will be the first woman nominated by a Republican president in 13 years. If Congress approves her nomination, she will […]

6y ago

No Evidence Of Collusion Between Trump Team And Vladimir Putin’s Russia: Dianne Feinstein

No Evidence Of Collusion Between Trump Team And Vladimir Putin’s Russia: Dianne Feinstein

Breitbart reports that a high-profile Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, has admitted she has not seen any evidence of ties between Republican POTUS Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Feinstein states that if evidence is going to emerge it will come from special counsel Robert Mueller, who heads one of five groups currently investigating Donald Trump. New […]

7y ago

Dianne Feinstein Rejects Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Healthcare And Accepts Money From Insurance Lobbyists

Dianne Feinstein Rejects Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Healthcare And Accepts Money From Insurance Lobbyists

Despite the fact that 58 percent of Americans support the idea of the single-payer healthcare system that Bernie Sanders has been advocating, Dianne Feinstein has fully rejected a federally-funded healthcare system, while accepting money from insurance lobbyists. When speaking at a town hall crowd assembled to see her in San Francisco in April, she reiterated […]

7y ago

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Still Won’t Support Bernie Sanders’ Single Payer Medicare-For-All And People Are Livid

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Still Won’t Support Bernie Sanders’ Single Payer Medicare-For-All And People Are Livid

Sen. Dianne Feinstein experienced heated town hall forums recently. The first town hall meeting was held at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in San Francisco. Feinstein was asked about whether or not she supports Bernie Sanders’ single payer Medicare-for-All legislation. She said that she does not support Bernie Sanders’ bill. Sen. Dianne Feinstein told the […]

7y ago

Dianne Feinstein Says Americans Indifferent Over Bill Of Rights Destruction

Dianne Feinstein Says Americans Indifferent Over Bill Of Rights Destruction

Dianne Feinstein feels that Americans have become indifferent over the destruction of the Bill of Rights and actions which some consider infringements upon the Fourth Amendment. The California Democrat is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. During a recent interview, Senator Feinstein also stated that in spite of President Barack Obama’s comments about NSA […]

10y ago

Clemency Not An Option For Whistleblower Snowden

Clemency Not An Option For Whistleblower Snowden

Clemency will not be granted to whistle-blower Edward Snowden any time soon — if ever. That is, if the White House and the congressional intelligence committees have anything to do with the decision. White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said on Sunday, “Mr. Snowden violated U.S. law.” When pressed further about whether clemency was being discussed […]

11y ago

Edward Snowden Won’t Get Clemency From United States

Edward Snowden Won’t Get Clemency From United States

Edward Snowden won’t get clemency from the United States, despite a plea he issued in a letter given to a German politician and released on Friday. In his one-page letter, Snowden asked for clemency on charges for allegedly leaking classified information about the NSA to the media. He explained, “Speaking the truth is not a […]

11y ago

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