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23 Aug 2022, 12:42 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Yes, if Democrats had been able to pick up some more Senate seats in 2018 and 2020, that might have mattered -- although maybe not, given that there are probably several more Manchin/Sinema types in the wings, willing to say that "the Senate's traditions are important" -- even more important, apparently, than democracy itself. [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 12:24 pm by Brad Schnure
Senate Republicans have introduced the “Three Rs” package of legislation to address many of the concerns discussed at the hearing. [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 7:07 am by Rick Hasen
NBC News: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday that he isn’t worried about threats to American democracy after a national NBC News poll revealed voters ranked it as the top issue facing the country.The Republican Senate leader… Continue reading [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 5:01 am by Roger Parloff
They alleged that the already extraordinary levels of pretrial publicity relating to their cases, trial of which began in October 1974, had been fanned and exacerbated by sensational public hearings held in May 1973 by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, known as the Ervin Committee. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 7:50 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Fast Company: “Stanford’s Strengthening Democracy Study, the largest of its kind, tested 25 strategies among 32,000 Americans to learn which could reduce partisan animosity and curb antidemocratic attitudes…According to a FiveThirtyEight study, at least 120 Republican midterm candidates don’t accept the results of the 2020 election, representing 49% of Republicans on the ballot for Senate, House, governor, attorney general, and secretary of state. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 1:28 pm by Unknown
Senators Leahy (Democrat) and Cornyn (Republican) (and others) sent a letter to the United States Patent and Trademark Office requesting that the USPTO review practices concerning granting “an excessive” amount of patents on pharmaceuticals, such as biologics, that may be driving up drug pricing costs. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 7:03 am by Rick Hasen
NYT: A federal appeals court temporarily blocked Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, on Sunday from testifying in the investigation into efforts by President Donald J. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 2:14 pm
Quiz Circuit Chiefs Over Kirkland Gun Cases Shift -- Top Republican senators wrote to 12 chief circuit court judges Thursday urging them to receive commitments from the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP that it will stick with current and future pro bono and other court case assignments even if they turn out to involve clients' Second Amendment rights. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 12:51 pm by Ned Foley
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Henry Olsen’s column on the potential effects of Alaska’s new electoral system (and how it can help non-MAGA Republicans like Lisa Murkowski), there’s new reporting on how dissatisfied Senator Mitch McConnell is with… Continue reading [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 12:50 pm by Robbie Kenney
Reacting to news of the impending retirement of Senator Ron Rice, the senior member of the Senate Republican caucus Senator Robert Singer called his Democrat friend “the conscience of the Senate. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 8:25 am by Robbie Kenney
(Pixabay) Senate Republican Leader Steven Oroho and Senate Republican Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon criticized Murphy for failing to utilize some of the state’s federal COVID funds to avoid the 20 percent increase. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 6:06 am by Albert W. Alschuler
The Justice Department’s current investigation of criminal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election apparently is taking two paths. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 4:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Senators (and occasional House members) who picture themselves as a future president. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 9:12 am by Jack Bogdanski
Their hero, Ron Wyden, the "Democratic" senator from "Oregon" whose wife and three small children have never, as far as I can tell, lived anywhere but New York City. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 6:13 am by Brad Schnure
WHERE: A video livestream of the hearing will be accessible to the public and press via Facebook Live from the Facebook page of the New Jersey Senate Republicans. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 5:00 am by Svetlana S. Gans and Natalie Hausknecht
Commissioner Statements Opposed to the ANPRM Both Republican commissioners published dissents. [read post]
16 Aug 2022, 2:41 pm by luiza
Phillips, a former chief counsel for Republican Senator John Cornyn, dissented in December 2020 in an FTC antitrust case filed against Facebook, which is now known as Meta Platforms. [read post]