Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will head into hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, where members on the panel will ultimately decide whether to send her nomination off to a full vote in the Senate.
Wisconsin Democrat Activists filed suit earlier this month in an attempt to disqualify Republican Senator Ron Johnson and two GOP congressional colleagues — Representatives Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald — off the midterm ballot this November. The Democrats claim that the three pro-Trump Republicans should be disqualified to serve based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War to (in part) keep former Confederates from serving in Congress.
Proponents of accord argue it's crucial to fight pandemics; critics counter such a measure will lead to coercive, one-size-fits-all rules and undermine national sovereignty.
Rep. Don Young, dean of the U.S. House of Representatives and one of Congress’s more colorful characters, died Friday on his way back home to Alaska, his office announced. He was 88.
On Monday, the Idaho House of Representatives passed a pro-life law similar to the Texas legislation that bans abortions after cardiac activity can be detected — at about six weeks of pregnancy.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is distancing herself from most of her colleagues on Capitol Hill by warning Ukraine cannot win the war with Russia, and she opposes sending more arms that will only cause more suffering and a bigger refugee crisis.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has enacted a law that bans government entities in her state from accepting private financial resources to help absorb the cost of running elections.
