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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email During the dog days of Democrats negotiating President Biden’s doomed Build Back Better legislation in 2021, one reporter asked then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about her discussions with Sen Joe Manchin, the mercurial conservative

The House of Representatives devolved into chaos after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker on Oct. 3. During the frustrating three-week stalemate that followed, three Republican representatives failed to clinch the top position.  The impasse finally broke on Oct. 25, when House Republicans rallied behind Mike Johnson, a previously little-known Republican representative from Louisiana who

On Oct. 25, 2023, Robert R. Card II, a 40-year-old member of the U.S. Army Reserve, went on a killing spree at a bar/grille and a bowling alley both located in Lewiston, Maine. It was here where he took the lives of 18 innocent people and injured another 11. Upon entering both of these establishments,

Nikki Haley claimed Vivek Ramaswamy would be “dangerous” in the White House as she angrily denounced his slurs against her daughter during the third Republican presidential debate. Ms Haley, 51, and Mr Ramaswamy, 38, traded blows over foreign policy and even footwear as they joined three other 2024 candidates at the event in Miami on

The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state’s approximately 3,600 judges and justices, as well as hundreds of judicial hearing officers, support magistrates, court attorney-referees, and judicial candidates (both judges and non-judges seeking election to judicial office). The committee interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100)

Rep. Robert Aderholt On Tuesday, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL04) joined a letter by Congressman Mark Green, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, to the Biden Administration demanding answers on restrictions on civilian firearm exports. Chairman Green’s letter to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the Department of Commerce, was signed by 86 other lawmakers. “President Biden

Some of Nate Hosie’s fondest memories as a young boy include hunting for pheasants and grouse in northeastern Pennsylvania’s mountains with his father and grandfather. As an adult, he’s keeping that tradition alive with his own sons and wife while publicly advocating for the preservation of America’s proud “hunting heritage.” “At j​ust 5 years old,

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: I want to go back to Marione Ingram, the 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Germany, who’s been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Marione, as a Holocaust survivor, you’ve been invited back to Germany, where you

Interview GOP blaming mental illness for gun violence is counterproductive and cruel, say experts Lois Beckett Dr Paul Appelbaum, a psychiatrist, challenges assumptions about the connections between mental health and violence risk In the wake of the Maine mass shootings that left 18 people dead, Republican politicians are returning to a familiar talking point: the

UCI Professor David Pan Announces Candidacy as a Republican for Congress in California’s 46th District – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Wednesday, November 8, 2023 · 667,135,555 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases

First-term state Rep. Craig Haggard says he’s running for Congress whenever incumbent U.S. Rep Jim Baird of Indiana leaves his post — whether that’s in 2024 or afterward. Haggard is filing an exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission today, allowing him to raise money for the bid. He won’t have to declare candidacy until

My wife and I are still reeling from the Lewiston shooting. Although we live 40 minutes away, our sense of peace, safety and perception of what it means to live in Maine has been damaged by this dreadful event. Photographs of victims of the Oct. 25 killings are displayed on Oct. 29, during a service

Two attorneys, nationally recognized for their successful lawsuits following mass shootings, were in Maine Monday night to promote civil litigation as a way to achieve justice for Lewiston shooting victims and their families. In the absence of action from political leaders, the two say the courts are the best way to upend the status quo.

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A case over whether or not people subjected to restraining orders should lose their right to carry guns was heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as justices mull a legal challenge that could upend firearms laws nationally. The high court seemed skeptical as they accepted oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, a case

The Federalist Society is arguably the most powerful interest group in America. What started as a few conservative law students has morphed into the most lethal anti-progress weapon in the modern right’s arsenal. Today, there are six Federalist Society members on the Supreme Court, and its members comprised 90% of all appellate court appointments made

Gun safety and domestic violence prevention advocates rallied at the Supreme Court. Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman from Arizona who was shot in 2011, was expected to speak. Show Caption Hide Caption Hundreds gathered outside Supreme Court in protest of guns rights case Oral arguments were heard involving a case that would ban those with

The Supreme Court appears inclined to uphold a federal law banning guns from those subject to domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs), in the first major test of the Second Amendment at the high court this term.  In oral argument Tuesday, justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum seemed to agree with the Biden administration