Politics

De Blasio Takes Gig As Teaching Fellow At Harvard

ABC News reports: Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools of government and public health. De Blasio, a Democrat who served as mayor from from 2014 to 2021, will take part in “a variety of discussions, events, and programming” at the Institute of Politics at …

Read More »

DOJ Wins Temporary Block On Idaho Abortion Law

Bloomberg News reports: The Biden administration won a judge’s order ensuring women in Idaho can get abortions in medical emergencies, less than a day after losing a similar fight in Texas. The mixed outcomes in preliminary rulings point to hotly contested court battles ahead over state limitations after the US Supreme Court overturned a federal right to the procedure. The …

Read More »

Uvalde School Board Fires Police Chief Pete Arredondo

NBC News reports: Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo was fired Wednesday by the Texas city’s school board. The board voted unanimously to oust the embattled chief after a recommendation from the school district superintendent. Arredondo’s removal caps three months of outrage over the botched law enforcement response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School, which killed 19 children and …

Read More »

Texas AG Wins Court Battle On Emergency Abortions

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas hospitals will not be required to provide emergency abortions after a federal judge ruled the Biden administration was unauthorized to enforce such a rule. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock ruled that the guidance by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services went beyond the text of a related federal law, Reuters …

Read More »

Impeachment Lawyer Dan Goldman Pushes Out Openly Gay Rep. Mondaire Jones In New York House Primary

Gothamist reports: Dan Goldman, a former prosecutor who campaigned on a promise to oppose right-wing Republicans and former President Donald Trump, overcame a crowded and competitive field to win a rare open House seat in New York’s newly-drawn 10th Congressional District. The race, which was called at 12:39 a.m. on Wednesday by The Associated Press, was one of the more …

Read More »

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney Wins Primary In New District

USA Today reports: New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney narrowly prevailed against state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi in the Democratic primary for U.S. House. Maloney had received about two-thirds of the vote when the race was called by the Associated Press, leading Biaggi 66.7%-33.3% with just under half the votes counted. The race was mired in intraparty controversy from the start. …

Read More »

Charlie Crist Wins Florida Dem Gubernatorial Primary

Orlando’s NBC affiliate reports: Charlie Crist has defeated Nikki Fried in Florida’s Democratic governor’s primary and will take on Gov. Ron DeSantis in November. Crist took an early and large lead over Fried as soon as the results began to pour in. “I am so proud to have earned the support for the Democratic nomination to be the next governor …

Read More »

Nadler Defeats Maloney In Contentious Dem Primary

The New York Times reports: Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, handily defeated his longtime congressional neighbor, Carolyn B. Maloney, in a bruising three-way primary battle on Tuesday that was preordained to end one of the powerful Democrats’ political careers. The star-crossed skirmish in the heart of Manhattan was unlike any New York City — or …

Read More »

Independent Spoiler Drops Out Of MO Senate Race

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: John Wood, a former investigator for the Jan. 6 committee who launched an independent bid for U.S. Senate in Missouri, said Tuesday he was withdrawing from the race. Wood, who positioned himself as a conservative alternative to the Democratic and Republican nominees, said there was no path forward for his bid after controversial ex-Gov. Eric …

Read More »

Gun Group Sues To Block NY Gun Ban In Times Square

The Hill reports: A Second Amendment advocacy group on Tuesday asked a federal judge to block a New York state law that bans the carry of firearms in certain “sensitive locations” such as stadiums, hospitals and Manhattan’s Times Square. The request was part of a lawsuit brought by the Gun Owners of America against a New York law enacted this …

Read More »

Fox Scion Sues Outlet Over Piece Linking Family To Riot

The New York Times reports: Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox Corporation, filed a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news site on Tuesday, a day after the outlet challenged him to make good on his threats to sue over a column that claimed links between the Murdoch family and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Mr. Murdoch, the son …

Read More »

DeSantis Cosplays As Tom Cruise In New Ad [VIDEO]

Newsweek reports: Governor Ron DeSantis has released a Top Gun-themed campaign ad taking aim at the “corporate media.” The viral video was uploaded on Twitter by his wife, Casey DeSantis, and has been watched more than 670,000 times. It cuts between clips of DeSantis giving a speech in a hangar and moving around an air base, at one point getting …

Read More »

2024 Watch: Glenn Youngkin To Campaign In Nevada

Playbook reports: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is set to make a campaign stop next month in Nevada, his first appearance in early 2024 nominating state and part of a broader midterm push that’s coming amid speculation he’s weighing a presidential bid. Youngkin, a Republican who took office this year after winning a November 2021 election, is slated to campaign and …

Read More »

Ethics Board Advances Misconduct Case Against SD Gov

Politico reports: A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license that it could take action against her. The three retired judges on the Government Accountability Board determined that “appropriate action” could be taken against …

Read More »

Dem Incumbent Surges To +7 In Nevada US Senate Poll

USA Today reports: In Nevada, incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto leads her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, by seven percentage points (45%-38%), according to a new poll conducted by Suffolk University and the Reno Gazette-Journal. Cortez Masto’s latest polling numbers are a significant voter swing in her favor. In April, in a hypothetical matchup prior to winning the Nevada Republican …

Read More »

Tech Mogul Gives $1.6B To Dark Money GOP Group

The New York Times reports: A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans and their causes a huge financial boost ahead of the midterms, and for years to come. The source of the money was Barre Seid, an electronics manufacturing mogul, and the donation …

Read More »

CO State Senator Switches To Democrat Over Big Lie

Colorado Politics reports: State Sen. Kevin Priola announced Monday he will switch party affiliation and become a Democrat, throwing a major monkey-wrench into his former party’s ambitions of taking control of the state Senate. The announcement from Priola, the freshly minted Henderson Democrat, is likely to come with little surprise. He’s been a major backer of Democratic-led proposals for the …

Read More »

Bolsonaro Tries To Snatch Protester’s Phone [VIDEO]

The New York Times reports: “I’m here every day, Bolsonaro. I want to see you be brave enough to come talk to me,” shouted the protester, Wilker Leão, as he recorded himself on his phone. Repeatedly, he hurled an insult at the president that roughly translates to “the pork-barrelers’ little lap dog,” though a bit more vulgar. Suddenly the president …

Read More »

GOP Rep: Trump Needed Those Docs For His Memoirs

“Certainly we all know that every former president has access to their documents. That’s how they write their memoirs. They don’t have, you know, great recall of everything that occurred in their administration. And we don’t know that they were classified. We know according to the FBI documents that they were identified as marked classified.” – Rep. Mike Turner, on …

Read More »

Crenshaw: Trump Wasn’t Even Asked To Give Back Docs

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Jake Tapper drilled down on Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — as the congressman attempted to defend Trump over the FBI’s search through Mar-a-Lago. “It’s not a question that it’s bad to have classified material in a non-SCIF environment,” Crenshaw said. “I still haven’t seen any evidence that Trump was even asked to give these documents back. He’s been …

Read More »