An Iowa judge said during a hearing Friday he will rule soon on a challenge to a state law that critics say politicized the selection of appeals court judges in violation of the Iowa Constitution.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of Georgia’s restrictive anti-abortion law that makes it nearly impossible for women to get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
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Most federal agencies enjoy majority support from the American public, but a new survey found divisions along party lines in opinions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice in light of national political disputes.
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A federal judge in Wisconsin dismissed a lawsuit Monday by the state’s Democratic Party over lame-duck laws passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature that limited the powers of the Democratic governor and attorney general.
Read moreAdd longtime Texas Congressman Mac Thornberry to the growing list of Republican House members opting for retirement ahead of the 2020 elections.
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The road to the White House is a long one for any 2020 presidential candidate, but it seems like an even longer one for former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford. That’s because the Republican wants to challenge President Donald Trump for the party nomination.
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Former longtime GOP congressman Darrell Issa is tossing his hat in the ring for the fight to unseat embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter in District 50, one of California’s last Republican strongholds.
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President Donald Trump’s approval ratings rose slightly from last month while party partisanship is at an all-time high, according to a new poll.
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Adding to a growing number of Republican lawmakers who will not seek re-election in 2020, U.S. Rep. Paul Cook of California revealed Tuesday he will step down to campaign for a lower office.
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Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a pillar of the conservative caucus, announced Tuesday that he will run for the state’s Fifth Congressional District seat, which will be open when 76-year-old Representative Jim Sensenbrenner retires at the end of his current term.
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House Republicans in North Carolina’s state legislature voted Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a contentiously partisan two-year budget proposal — a vote that occurred while nearly half of the chamber’s members were missing from the floor.
Read moreSeventh Circuit judges were sympathetic Friday to arguments that the Wisconsin Legislature should be allowed to intervene in a Planned Parenthood challenge to state abortion laws because Republican lawmakers don’t trust the Democratic attorney general to properly defend the laws.
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Representative Bill Flores announced Wednesday he will not run for a sixth term in Congress next year, making him the fifth Texas Republican to opt out of re-election ahead of 2020.
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A panel of judges in North Carolina Tuesday struck down voting maps created by the Republican-controlled Legislature, ruling that they are unconstitutional and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s personal assistant resigned Thursday after she talked about the president’s family and White House affairs with reporters, according to multiple news reports.
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In a heated runoff election Tuesday, Republican voters in Mississippi will decide between a former state supreme court justice and the lieutenant governor, who has billed himself as “the one true conservative” in the race to determine who will take on Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in November.
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Representative Sean Duffy, one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest supporters in the state, announced Monday that he will resign from Congress next month in order to spend more time with his family.
Read moreJoe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and tea party favorite turned radio talk show host, announced a challenge Sunday to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, saying the incumbent is unfit for office and must be denied a second term.
Read moreLegislation to expand federal background checks on guns will “lead the discussion” when the Senate returns in September from its month-long recess and debates a response to two mass shootings over the weekend in Ohio and Texas, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday.
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Most Americans continue to believe that giving the president more power is ill-advised, but since last year a growing number of conservative Republicans in particular think the executive branch could be more effective with expanded authority, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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