Republicans

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the federal government over its requirement that states provide LGBTQ+ affirming placement for foster care youth. “The Biden Administration is attempting to hold the Texas foster care system hostage to force unscientific, fringe beliefs about gender upon the entire country,” Paxton said in the lawsuit. Under the federal rule, …

The Detroit News reports: Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra told the crowd at a Monday fundraiser that he was concerned Democrats “will steal some votes” in a potentially close U.S. Senate race this fall, according to a recording obtained by The Detroit News. Hoekstra’s comments could shine light on the GOP’s approach to the upcoming election and echoed false …

St. Louis’s NBC affiliate reports: At a recent campaign stop in the suburbs of St. Louis, reporters asked Republican Sen. Josh Hawley to list his top three accomplishments he felt made him worthy of re-election for a second six-year term. “We got new housing for our soldiers in Fort Leonard Wood,” he replied. Hawley’s campaign routinely repeats this claim in …

Fox News reports: Oklahoma’s top elected education official said Thursday he is very close to his goal of placing a Bible in “every school” in the Sooner State to both combat “woke” curricula in today’s textbooks and ensure students have access to an incredible “historical document.” In a phone interview with Fox News Digital, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan …

From the Justice Department: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama and the Alabama Secretary of State to challenge a systematic State program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election, in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). On …

NPR reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed New York to block former-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the state’s 2024 general election ballot. “The application for writ of injunction presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied,” the court said in a one-sentence order. Two New York state courts ordered Kennedy removed …

The New York Times reports: The campaign of Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret who is running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, has posted footage of him posing with a woman and her three daughters in what looks like a photo that might be used for an annual holiday card. In another …

Florida Politics reports: Though the concept of climate change has been removed from state law in recent months, Florida’s former Governor is saying he agrees with mainstream scientists on the issue. “The climate is clearly changing,” U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said on CNN, addressing the destruction left by Hurricane Helene. “We know things are changing. We’ve got to figure out, …

NBC News reports: Ohio Sen. JD Vance is set to participate in a town hall in Pennsylvania on Saturday with evangelical religious leader Lance Wallnau, who said after this month’s presidential debate that Vice President Kamala Harris used “witchcraft.” Wallnau, a Texas-based celebrity evangelist, is a self-described prophet. Two decades ago, he coined and popularized the Seven Mountains Mandate — …

Newsweek reports: Robinson’s wife, Yolanda Hill Robinson, has been steadfast in her defense of her husband, publishing a video on Friday in which she says Mark Robinson is a “wonderful husband, father, and grandfather.” She adds: “He is known sometimes to raise his voice and raise a ruckus but it is all because of the passion he has to protect …

“I am being investigated and judged by my political opponents. This is Soviet. This investigation exists to do the voters of my district who won’t remove me from office. “The Committee’s own membership tried to remove me from office via election. That failed, so this is the next iteration of the smear. “Your correspondence of September 4 asks whether I …

The Hill reports: The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), a big-dollar fundraising group affiliated with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), isn’t helping two of McConnell’s biggest critics in the Senate GOP conference — Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rick Scott (Fla.). This has prompted grumbling from conservatives who say McConnell has too much power over Senate Republican fundraising and point …

Fox News reports: Three more Republicans are crossing the aisle to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House. Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., former Kansas state senator and Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, and Deanell Reece Tacha, a retired federal judge, condemned the current state of the GOP in a statement shared with Fox News Digital Thursday. “This …

NBC News reports: An American journalist who runs an independent newsletter published a document Thursday that appears to have been stolen from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — the first public posting of a file that is believed to be part of a dossier that federal officials say is part of an Iranian effort to manipulate the U.S. election. The PDF …

The Huffington Post reports: Washington state GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent told supporters at a recent event that the Proud Boys — the all-male, far-right, neo-fascist organization whose leaders were convicted for seditious conspiracy after trying to violently overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021 — are really just a bunch of hooligans who scare progressive Democrats. “Look, the …

Politico reports: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) infuriated many of his House colleagues with his since-deleted racist X post about Haitian migrants, prompting a top Black Democrat to introduce a measure to formally reprimand him that will likely see a floor vote. Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) is expected to force action on the censure resolution when the …

“We’ve seen that they’re trying to get her elected, the worst possible candidate they could put there. But in 90 days, they’re trying to get her across the finish line. She’s the first ever AI presidential candidate, all done by social media, media, TV, radio. They’re doing everything they possibly can. They’ll spend billions of dollars to get her across …

Courthouse News reports: Former California Representative Devin Nunes urged a federal appeals court panel Wednesday to revive defamation suits against political writer Ryan Lizza and Esquire magazine over a 2018 article he and his family argue falsely implied their Iowa dairy farm illegally employed undocumented immigrants — and that Nunes conspired to cover it up. Nunes and his family, owners …

The Washington Post reports: A years-long fight over voting rules in the swing state of Wisconsin sparked a criminal investigation this week after a mayor — wearing a hard hat and Department of Public Works jacket — carted off a ballot drop box the city clerk was about to make available to voters. The mayor, who was elected in the …

Playbook reports: The race to replace Mitch McConnell as Senate GOP leader has been sleepy all summer, with the two frontrunners — John Thune and John Cornyn — keeping their pitches to colleagues mostly private. But behind the scenes, jockeying is heating up as the leadership election nears. Thune (R-S.D.) has been busy trying to shore up his previously fraught …