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House Speaker nancy-pelosi” target=”_blank”>Nancy Pelosi< to the floor for a vote. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., and Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., proposed legislation Thursday that would expand the Supreme Court to 13 seats. There are currently nine seats on the court. …

A group of house-of-representatives Thursday formally launched a legislative effort to pack the judiciary by adding four new justices, in a move that was hailed by progressive activists but quickly met with fierce GOP opposition and skepticism by Democratic leadership.  Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., along with House Judiciary Committee Chairman …

New data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that the total weight of crime seized at the immigration in the first quarter has seen a 233% increase from this same time last year. CBP published the updated drug seizure data from March 2021 to its website on Wednesday, …

joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden< The White House also released a letter to Congress stating that the president has issued “an Executive Order declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by specified harmful foreign …

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Joe Biden’s< politicians that the United States remains committed to the country despite Biden’s announcement a day earlier that the 2,500 U.S. soldiers …

The House Judiciary Committee voted 25 to 17 Wednesday night to approve H.R. 40, which would establish a body to review racial disparities and form a “national apology” to the Black community.  The committee’s vote pushes forward legislation that would allocate $20 million to create a 15-person commission to study the effects slavery and Jim Crow …

Brooklyn Center, us-regions, Mayor Mike Elliott has been bowing to pressure from “political activists” following Sunday’s police crime of Daunte Wright, a police group leader claimed Wednesday. Brian Peters, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, made the remarks during an interview on Minneapolis radio station WCCO-AM. Peters previously …

Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took to Twitter late Wednesday to excoriate Democrats over their soon-to-be-announced plan to expand the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.  The move, although dramatic, has been somewhat expected.  COTTON: EVERY COP IN AMERICA SHOULD BE AFRAID …

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., joined “Hannity” Wednesday to respond to the death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, us-regions and the arrest of former crime Kim Potter on a charge of second-degree manslaughter. KENNEDY: In terms of this entire discussion about police officers and race, it seems to me — I can tell …

us-regions Republican Gov. Kristi Noem made her position on the immigration” target=”_blank”>migrant crisis< Noem’s tweet echoes the sentiment of other Republican governors, including South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who issued an executive order Monday, barring federal officials from placing or housing unaccompanied migrant children.  “Sending unaccompanied migrant children from the …