Category: Politics

What happened in Texas, fresh primary polls from swing states and the Ohio Democrat using a whiteboard to attack gerrymandering.

Republicans saw higher voter turnout statewide and gains in heavily Hispanic areas that could would pay off for the party in the midterm elections. Gov. Greg Abbott won nomination for third term, as the GOP vote in 35 counties — most of them majority-Hispanic — broke records.

The House passed a bill to expand health care for veterans exposed to toxins; 174 Republicans opposed the measure.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said courts should recognize the “weighty interest that a State has in protecting its own laws.”

The president’s son claimed the military was devoting 6 million hours on a “woke agenda” — when in fact it was aimed at preventing extremism in the ranks like the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Republicans changed the process that a president’s nominee to be a Supreme Court justice needs to go through.

Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) taunted the president as he delivered his State of the Union address, at one point chanting “Build the wall!”

Lujan, 49, had initially predicated a four-to-six-week recovery following the cerebellar stroke he suffered on Jan. 27.

Those uninterested in tackling climate change often pretend the issue is “clean air” — even as the Supreme Court considers withdrawing the ability to tackle climate change using the Clean Air Act.

Florida Republicans have pushed a bill to ban abortion after 15 weeks with no exceptions for rape, incest or human trafficking.

The move positions Idaho to become the first state to copy the restrictive Texas law that has prohibited most abortions in the state.