Congress

California’s Democratic leaders, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, are sidestepping and deflecting blame for this week’s violence and rioting in Los Angeles. They claim that the Trump administration’s federalization of the…

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., faces more than eight years in prison after a New Jersey grand jury for the Department of Justice indicted her Tuesday for her role in a May 9 scuffle outside the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in…

On Monday 113 Democrats voted against a resolution “denouncing the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.” Although the measure passed 280-113, “Democrats fumed over language in the resolution expressing ‘gratitude to…

Congress is about to come to a fork in the road over government spending. To borrow Yogi Berra’s infamous phrase, they’re likely to take it. The rescissions package the Trump administration recently delivered to Congress should provide an…

The Founding Fathers worried the judicial branch was “beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; that it can never attack with success either of the other two.” Yet it seems that in these days of lawfare, the judiciary…

Think a Republican-controlled state does a good job making sure that only eligible individuals receive Medicaid? Think again. That’s the summary of an investigation launched by Ohio state Rep. Mike Dovilla, R-Berea, into the Buckeye State’s…

At more than 1,000 pages long, the legislation definitely qualifies as “big.” But what the Republican House of Representatives passed as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” just before Memorial Day led this author to a one-word reaction:…

Three years after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, the right to life — America’s foundational principle — remains under siege. The stalled Life at…

To cut federal spending, Republicans should join Newsom in reforming Medicaid. It says something about congressional Republicans’ unwillingness to reduce Medicaid spending when many of them stand well to the left of Gavin Newsom — I repeat,…

There can be no doubt now that the past four years contained arguably the most egregious cover-up in the history of American politics. The term “soft coup” is probably more appropriate than cover-up, as the latter implies insiders were…