Voting Issues In Georgia’s 2nd Largest District
Voting machines at Anderson Livsey Elementary School in Gwinnett County, Georgia ran out battery power 45 minutes after the polls opened. The machines couldn’t be immediately restarted because poll workers neglected to pack power chords. Some voters were offered paper ballots for about 15 minutes while hundreds of others waited in a line that stretched […]
Senate Receives FBI Report On Kavanaugh
The White House received the confidential FBI report on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday and passed it over to the Senate early Thursday morning. A key, Senate vote on the Kavanaugh nomination is scheduled for Friday. White House spokesman Raj Shah said the report did not corroborate accusations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christina […]
Trump Order’s FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh
President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the FBI to further investigate allegations of sexual assault levied against his nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in […]
Ford, Kavanaugh: Contrasting Opening Statements
Brett Kavanaugh and Christina Blasey Ford testified before a panel of 21 Senators on Thursday. Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault three decades ago when they were in high school. The first to testify on the matter, Ford delivered an opening statement detailing the allegations. At the beginning of her testimony, Ford acknowledged that she […]
Rod Rosensteins Melodrama: A Distraction Or A Set-UP?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was summoned to the White House on Monday amid speculation that he was going to resign or be fired. Rosenstein’s future at the Department of Justice has been in question since the New York Times published a bombshell story this past weekend. The Times reported that Rosenstein considered coordinating invocation […]
Russia China Alliance Waxing Stronger In Response To US Pressure
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently cooked traditional Russian pancakes, blini, with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping. The public relations event in Vladivostok, Russia was part of broader Sino-Chinese efforts to increase economic and military cooperation between the two nations. Prior to the light-hearted blini summit, the two leaders met for formal talks at the […]
Kavanaugh Accused Of Sexual Assault, Confirmation In Jeopardy
The nomination of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh may be in danger. Cristine Blasey Ford, a California professor, recently brought allegations to the forefront that Kavanagh sexually abused her while in high school. Ford first shared her experiences anonymously with Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) in a letter. Last week Feinstein referred the […]
Manafort Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Cooperate with Mueller
Paul Manafort, the former chairman of the 2016 Donald Trump Campaign, pleaded guilty on Friday to two federal charges and struck a deal with investigators that includes cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller. Under the plea deal, Manafort will comply with Muller’s investigation as well as forfeit real estate holdings and bank accounts. Manafort is […]
Why The Times Anonymous Op-Ed Is Unsettling Trump White House
President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to uncover the identity of the senior administration official who published an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week. Trump is now obsessed with discovering the identity of the staffer who told the world the President is mentally […]
Senator Booker Releases Confidential Documents to the Public
Senator Corey Booker (D-New Jersey) on Thursday defied his GOP colleagues and the Senate rules by releasing 12 pages of documents once marked “committee confidential.” Frustrated with “the absurdity of the process” Booker told fellow committee members “the process has been a sham” on day three of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation hearing. […]