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Reacting to a stern rebuke by Montanan Republican Party Executive Committee in late February, former Gov. Marc Racicot (R) lashed out at his former colleagues in a fiery open letter posted on the Daily Montanan's website.

Racicot, who served two terms as governor before heading off to chair the Republican National Committee in 2002, has come under fire for crossing party lines and endorsing Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020 as well as his support for Biden's nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday unleashed an angry tirade against transgender Americans on the floor of the House of Representatives.

While proposing a new nationwide ban on gender-affirming care for minors, the conspiracy theory-promoting Georgia congresswoman accused transgender Americans of being part of a sinister plot to sexualize American children.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of unnecessarily risking large-scale layoffs and an economic recession by continuing to raise interest rates, a policy decision that the Massachusetts Democrat slammed as badly misguided and destructive.

During a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Warren asked Powell to address the roughly two million people in the U.S. who would be out of a job if the Fed's projected unemployment rate of 4.6% by the end of the year turned out to be accurate.

Ten or 15 years ago, no one was using the term "major questions doctrine" in connection with the U.S. Supreme Court. The right-wing legal concept, which has been promoted by the Federalist Society and is now being embraced by the Roberts Court's Republican supermajority, argues, in essence, that if a presidential administration or a government agency wants to decide something of national importance, the action must have clear congressional authorization.

The New York Times' Adam Liptak examines the rise of the "major questions doctrine" in an article published on March 6, explaining why it is getting in the way of President Joe Biden's agenda.

Florida lawmakers head into the trenches this week to fight the many culture wars launched by the US state's conservative governor and likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, as the Republican-led legislature begins a new term.

A darling of the populist right, DeSantis has devoted much of his agenda since his reelection last November to railing against "wokeness," a concept co-opted by conservatives to describe an over-moralizing form of liberalism.

Florida is withdrawing from a bipartisan interstate system designed to prevent election fraud, after right-wing activists made it a target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, reported the Orlando Sentinel on Monday.

"Secretary of State Cord Byrd announced the state was terminating its membership with the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, just months after he credited the multi-state organization for helping identify people who voted in Florida and another state," reported Steven Lemongello and Jeffrey Schweers.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace noticed that during Donald Trump's CPAC speech Saturday, he made a little comment she called a "tell" that he's concerned about the flood of litigation against him.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok began the conversation, noting that by bringing in top aides like Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway, the Manhattan district attorney's office is showing its likely in the late stages of its case against Trump for hush-money payments.

A shocking slate of documents has been dropping over the past weeks in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

New York Times has been covering the new details about the case, including Peter Baker's report of the revelations that inside the staff, there is a lot of "panic." Speaking to Jeremy Peters, MSNBC's Katy Tur asked about the decisions that were made after the exodus of viewers from the network as a result of the Arizona election night call.

A Washington, D.C., statehood advocate on Monday blasted Joe Biden over the president’s reversal on the GOP-led effort to block a proposed D.C. crime law.

The D.C. Council’s proposal called for lesser sentences for some violent crimes at a time when the perception that Democrats are trying to shed the “soft on crime” tag.