MS NOW analyst Steve Benen says House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped an unexpectedly corruption-friendly reason for protecting the House’s GOP majority against its near inevitable collapse in the November midterms.“If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an …
Former Hill writer Jason Easley reports President Donald Trump exposed every bit of respect he still has for the evangelical wing of the Republican Party, which helped put him back in the White House in 2024.“America finally got to see what Trump really thinks of his evangelical supporters at the Wh…
The brother of a White House aide is calling his sister’s boss a “national embarrassment” as he speaks out about her obsession with President Donald Trump that has now popped up in two books. The Daily Beast and The Daily Mail reported that a family feud has become public after White House aide Nata…
On Friday morning, June 26, former National Security Adviser John Bolton entered a guilty plea to illegally retaining classified information related to his work in the first Trump administration. But Bolton’s attorney, that same morning, gave a scathing opinion of the indictment.Lowell, according to…
President Donald Trump and his appointees — including Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, FBI Director Kash Patel and federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro — often paint themselves as zealous defenders of national security. But according to former Home…
Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson said he was worried that House and Senate Republicans had tied themselves so thoroughly to President Donald Trump that the president knows he can blow up their November midterms chances without Wilson told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur that Trump is the kind of pers…
Jack Goldsmith, who previously served as the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush, is issuing a stark warning Republican senators not to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general.Thus far, Blanche has been auditioning for the attorney general gig, …
On Friday, President Donald Trump raised eyebrows with his misspelled invective against Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, who had the temerity to point out that former President Barack Obama’s ICE arrest numbers were “comparable” to those of the current chief executive. Trump took to Truth Social to ra…
Justice Department prosecutors have enraged a Utah judge over public statements that they issued to the media. Judge Tony Graf issued a contempt of court penalty on Friday after prosecutors told the celebrity gossip site TMZ that they had “ample evidence” to win their conviction of 23-year-old Tyler…
Set for Tuesday, November 3, the United States’ 2026 midterms are a little over four months away. And Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has a warning: expect President Donald Trump to do everything he can to make the midterms as chaotic and stressful as possible.Elias, publisher of Democracy Doc…