All posts tagged "Jerry Nadler"

Democratic activist and shooting survivor Cameron Kasky has opted to leave the crowded race for New York's 12th District and shift his attention to civil rights in the West Bank, according to reports Wednesday.

Kasky, the March for Our Lives co-founder who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, announced that he would not continue his campaign to fill the Manhattan district seat for Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who announced his retirement in September, Politico reported.

“I am, in my heart, not a politician. I am an activist,” Kasky, who visited the occupied West Bank last month, told Politico....

George Conway, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, has entered the crowded race for the seat Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is vacating in 2026, according to reports Monday.

The conservative lawyer, former Republican and co-founder of the Lincoln Project has filed as a Democrat for the Manhattan-based seat, Politico reported. He's also the ex-husband of Kellyanne Conway, a former counsellor to Trump.

Nadler announced in September he would not seek reelection after 34 years in Congress and would retire ahead of the midterm elections....

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) faced off with President Donald Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday over the safety of New York City's subways and the lack of affordability of driving into Manhattan.

Nadler accused Duffy of claiming there was a "surge in subway assaults," and that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was withholding the information from the public.

"Are you aware that major crime in the transit system, including assaults, is down 3% since last year and down 8% since 2019?" Nadler asked....

A Democratic attempt to impeach President Donald Trump has fizzled out before it ever really got traction, all due to "confusion" among congressional staffers, according to Politico.

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) filed seven articles of impeachment on Monday claiming that Trump was "unfit to serve," and spelling out the charges in a social media post:

"The president is attacking me because I filed Articles of Impeachment, asking 'What the hell did I do?'" Thanedar wrote, continuing:...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) all but raised a middle finger to the Federal Election Commission when responding to an inquiry about her new political action committee’s name.

The dispute is over a seemingly simple question: What does “MTG” mean?

The FEC contends that MTG is a name, and therefore, can’t legally include it in her new PAC’s title....

A Democratic lawmaker slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) Wednesday over past tweets that used anti-Semitic tropes and promoted notorious anti-Semite Kanye West, who once told Alex Jones he likes Adolf Hitler.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) skewered Jordan (R-OH) in a House Judicial Committee hearing Wednesday over a 2022 post praising West and his months-long delay in taking it down, despite calls from nonpartisan groups who warned it endangered Jewish people.

Swalwell, referencing the report that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his son monitor each other’s internet browser for pornography, told Jordan that he wanted to be his “online accountability partner.”...