Politics

Friday night on Current TV's "The Young Turks," host Cenk Uygur charged that there's one party in the Trayvon Martin slaying that is truly, undeniably guilty, but it isn't a person.

On April 2, 2012, the immigration rights organization Immigration Equality filed Blesch v. Holder on behalf of five married same sex couples who faced forcible separation by the government of the United States under the Defense of Marriage Act because one spouse is not an American citizen. Because DOMA prohibits the federal government from recognizing same sex marriages performed even in states where it is legal, American spouses in same sex relationships cannot sponsor their legal partners for green cards, which restricts those partners' abilities to work and puts them at risk for deportation.

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Friday suggested that it would be "legitimate" for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to attack President Barack Obama for his association with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

A member of the Fox News Medical A-Team on Thursday warned that legalizing polygamy was inevitable if "narcissistic" LGBT couples were allowed to adopt children.

Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer on Thursday interviewed Current TV’s Christof Putzel about Omar Hammami, an American-born member of the Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab.

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday joked that he would "take a lot of credit for a man having landed on the moon" to point out the absurdity of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney taking responsibility for saving the U.S. auto industry.

Conservative actor Ben Stein says that President Barack Obama is just not that smart -- and he's certainly not a "presidential genius" like disgraced former President Richard Nixon.

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended a shocking $3 billion loss on derivatives by JPMorgan Chase & Co. by saying it was just "the way America works."

A Virginia lawmaker who recently led the fight to block an openly gay man from becoming a judge General District Court judge in Richmond insisted on Thursday that the move had nothing to do with nominee's sexual orientation, but he was concerned about "bias" in cases between "a homosexual and heterosexual."

A Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado insisted he misspoke on Wednesday after telling supporters that he wasn't sure where President Barack Obama was born but the president was "not an American."

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Wednesday night that the Democratic Party could benefit from the ouster of moderate Republican candidates.

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley on Wednesday called the president of the United States "bigoted" for his suggestion that a name like "Barack Hussein Obama" made winning elections more challenging.

Actor Will Smith says he recently found himself in a "not cool" situation when his 13-year-old son, Jaden, asked President Barack Obama about the existence of extraterrestrial aliens.