2022

The congress” target=”_blank”>Congressional< Democrats to ditch the chamber’s 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass their two major elections bills along party lines, arguing that voters can’t wait any longer as federal courts chip away at provisions of the 1965 elections” target=”_blank”>Voting< Clyburn said that the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave freed slaves the right…

Senate Majority Leader chuck-schumer” target=”_blank”>Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., < filibuster of the bill. Schumer is also short on votes to alter Senate filibuster provisions. Therefore, Schumer doesn’t have the votes to pass the bills. Those three things are the only certainties about the Senate over the next few days. Schumer has just said that the Senate…

FIRST ON FOX: The health departments in us-regions and us-regions are facing potential lawsuits after they issued guidance using race and ethnicity as factors in prioritizing distribution of coronavirus treatments. Letters sent Wednesday by America First Legal (AFL) allege that both states violated federal law through “blatant discrimination.” Utah has published a scoring system by…

Senate Minority Leader mitch-mcconnell” target=”_blank”>Mitch McConnell<after the latter’s flawed election overhaul speech in Georgia on Tuesday, with the GOP leader saying the speech “undermines democracy.” McConnell torched the president from the Senate floor on Wednesday, tearing into Biden over his widely panned speech, calling it a “deliberately divisive” and one that was “designed to pull…

FIRST ON FOX: House Minority Leader kevin-mccarthy” target=”_blank”>Kevin McCarthy< House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy walks through the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 17, 2021.  (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz) “Unfortunately, rather than continuing Congress’s bipartisan approach to addressing COVID-19, Democrats advanced their partisan agenda, approving more than $120 billion in additional funding for schools,”…

ralph-northam” target=”_blank”>Gov. Ralph Northam < claims he is “99% sure” he knows the identity of the man pictured wearing blackface in a picture on his medical school yearbook page.  The image in question appeared in Northam’s 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook, depicting the blackface-wearing man alongside another student in a Ku Klux Klan costume …