The reality during the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: “All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment.” After that, 100 senators will sit at their desks for hours on end to hear from House prosecutors, Trump’s defense team and possibly a series of witnesses.
Read moreAhead of next week’s Senate impeachment trial, President Trump’s legal team on Saturday launched a broadside on House Democrats’ articles of impeachment, echoing past claims that they are on shaky legal ground as the result of a flawed process.
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The defense floated by congressional candidate Robert Hyde to explain away texts appearing to show him scheming to covertly surveil a U.S. ambassador in Ukraine took a hit late Friday night, as the House Judiciary Committee released more encrypted text attachments to his messages from Lev Parnas.
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A federal judge gave a two-year prison sentence Friday to former Congressman Christopher Collins, three months after the New York Republican pleaded guilty to an inside-trading scheme involving his son.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case on whether Electoral College voters are legally bound to cast their ballot for president in line with their state’s popular vote.
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A new poll released Friday shows Senator Bernie Sanders has held the lead over his Democratic rivals in New Hampshire, home of the first-in-the-nation primary.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg wants all passenger vehicles to be electric by 2035, releasing a transportation plan Friday that builds on his previously stated goal of cutting carbon pollution economy-wide by 50%.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to again take up a dispute over whether religious groups are exempt from the requirement that health insurance plans cover contraception.
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Congressman Duncan Hunter’s guilty plea to a single charge of campaign finance fraud late last year and his resignation this week has made the 50th Congressional District race one of the most-watched 2020 races in the nation, as a millennial Democratic candidate makes his second attempt to flip the Republican stronghold.
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President Donald Trump will be defended at his Senate trial by his impeached predecessor’s ex-prosecutor Kenneth Starr and professor Alan Dershowitz.
Read moreU.S. Rep. Devin Nunes’ father, Anthony Nunes Jr., sued reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazine Media for $25 million in federal court, claiming “a scandalous hit piece” in Esquire defamed him, causing him “insult, pain, embarrassment, humiliation, mental suffering, anguish, and injury.”
Read moreJudicial Watch sued the State Department in federal court for information on its use of the CrowdTangle social media monitoring program to surveil journalists and former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fast-tracked work on constitutional changes that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024, while lawmakers quickly sealed his choice for new prime minister.
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Ukraine’s prime minister submitted his resignation Friday, days after he was caught on tape saying President Volodymyr Zelensky knows nothing about the economy.
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Iran’s supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a “clown” who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will “push a poisonous dagger” into their backs, striking a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence rallied a Florida church full of potential Latino voters on Thursday evening by appealing to their faith and announcing a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico.
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Taking steps to shore up his poll numbers with the religious right, President Donald Trump marked the start of his Senate impeachment trial by pushing his 2018 executive order on school prayer into effect Thursday.
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Ukraine said Thursday it had launched an investigation into alleged illegal surveillance of former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who is now a key figure in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
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Fourteen states plus New York City and the District of Columbia brought a federal complaint Thursday over a new work requirement for food stamps that opponents say will strip benefits away from 700,000 Americans.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of an Alabama federal judge President Donald Trump has tapped for a seat on the 11th Circuit, as well as four other judicial nominees.
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