2024 Elections

Republican lawmakers are laughing at President-elect Donald Trump and the "clown" he wants to see appointed the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

Swalwell on Wednesday scoffed at Trump's chosen attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and his attempts to bury a potentially damning Ethics committee report on accusations he had sex with a minor.

North Carolina Republican lawmakers have just a few weeks before a Democrat takes over the governor's mansion and the GOP loses its supermajority in the legislature — and they're being accused of trying to push through some last-minute changes that would weaken the incoming administration.

Taking to X on Wednesday, election law expert David Becker, who is the executive director of The Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Republicans are "dropping some major structural and procedural changes to North Carolina elections in a 'hurricane relief' bill during the lame-duck session."

President-elect Donald Trump has a pressing problem that voters expect him to fix and his solutions will only exacerbate, a new political analysis contends.

Trump's popularity faces imminent peril in the form of a mounting housing crisis that his promised mass deportations, tax cuts and tariff demands will only worsen, Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long argued Wednesday.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) revealed this week that Republican senators had developed a plan to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's nominations, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as attorney general, before the new president is sworn in.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, Tuberville vowed to overcome the objections of Democrats despite sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

Two of Donald Trump's personal lawyers who were rewarded with plum appointments in the Department of Justice may be sidelined from dealing with the ongoing hush money trial overseen by Judge Juan Merchan.

Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained the ethical bind attorneys Todd Blanche, nominated to be Deputy Attorney General and Emil Bove, slated for Principal Associate Deputy AG, will find themselves in as they are poised to assume their new roles.

"Let's not forget Trump has tapped two of his defense attorneys in the hush money case, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, for senior roles in the Justice Department in his incoming administration. If this case does drag out, what impact could that have?" the MSNBC host asked.

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"I think it causes a conflict of interest for Todd Blanche and Emil Bove because, if for example Ana, they can continue to brief the issue about whether this case should exist into a future Trump presidency, if Todd Blanche and Emil Bove are then in the Department of Justice, the department itself will have an interest in getting involved in the case on behalf of the executive office of the president."

"There are interests for the office of the president that are different than the interests that Trump as an individual has," she added. "And Emil Bove and Todd Blanche having represented the president in his personal capacity will have that conflict and may have to even recuse themselves from the department's involvement in this case in the future."

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President-elect Donald Trump's decision to select a former Rose Bowl tight end embroiled in a masculine toilet scandal to represent the nation abroad was received with the all the decorum such an announcement could expect.

"UPDATE: Trump picks Matthew Whitaker for NATO ambassador," the news outlet Tennessee Holler told readers Wednesday. "You may remember him as the acting attorney general who was on the board of a company that boasted toilets for 'well-endowed men.'"

Andrew Cherkasky, an anti-woke former federal prosecutor, defended former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Defense secretary, by insisting that all department officials who support women in combat roles have to be fired.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, War Room host Steve Bannon asked Cherkasky what he would advise Hegseth to do on day one of his tenure.

Pro-MAGA TV host David Brody confronted Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) about providing "full transparency" after he claimed that releasing an ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the nominee for attorney general, would be "unethical."

During a Wednesday interview with Clyde, Brody noted that President-elect Donald Trump's nominations were "turning into The Apprentice."

A foreign correspondent who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 29 while covering West Africa for the New York Times says it takes a lot to make her panic — and Donald Trump has her panicking.

Lydia Polgreen admitted in a New York Times editorial Wednesday that she is frightened for herself, her elderly mother and a divided nation that sees Trump as either the cancer or its cure.

Lara Trump — Republican National Committee co-chair, daughter-in-law to the first convicted felon ever to be elected president and possible future senator of Florida — had exciting news to share this week: athleisure.

The RNC co-chair, wife to Eric Trump, announced the LT Brand by Lara Trump Collection on Instagram on Wednesday.

While Democrats anxiously brace for Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term in which he is expected to load the federal judiciary with hard-right judicial picks, election results nationwide paint a surprisingly promising picture for progressives, according to one analysis.

Some of the less talked about election results that have a big impact on courts across the country were won in state Supreme Courts where voters across the country sent liberal justices, Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern wrote Tuesday. And that’s “a very big deal” for progressives across the country, he said, especially as federal courts have shifted rightward.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) conspiracy theory that Jewish space lasers ignited forest fires in California.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, Moskowitz said he agreed with the decision to dismiss an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, after she suggested that homes displaying support for President-elect Donald Trump should be avoided while providing hurricane relief.