White House points to defense spending in states in new plea for Ukraine aid
Air Force airmen load munitions for a guided multiple launch rocket system onto a Boeing 767 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Aug. 11, 2022. The cargo was part of a security assistance package for Ukraine. The White House is asking Congress to approve additional Ukraine aid. (DOD Photo by Air Force Senior Airman Matt Porter)…
Trump lawyers claim 2024 Fulton trial would amount to ‘election interference’ in 2020 RICO case
Steve Sadow, an attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee at a Dec. 1 hearing for the 2020 election interference case . John David Mercer/Pool via Reuters A lawyer representing Donald Trump in the sweeping Fulton County election interference probe says that if the trial begins…
Dem Rep. McBath fumes after state lawmakers carve new Georgia Congressional map that skews more to GOP
Congresswoman Lucy McBath in the Georgia Capitol. McBath could be knocked out of power under a proposed Congressional district map. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Georgia GOP lawmakers released a proposed Congressional map Friday afternoon that questionably complies with a federal judge’s order to create a new majority Black congressional district west of metro Atlanta, while maintaining…
Georgia lawmakers exchange sharp words as GOP-drawn political maps clear key vote Friday
Gainesville Republican Sen. Shelly Echols, who chairs the Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee, presents the Senate map. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Proposed new legislative maps cleared a key vote Friday as Republican lawmakers race to push through remedial plans that they say comply with a federal judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s political maps. But…
Sandra Day O’Connor, who made history as the first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who died on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 25, 2012 in Washington, D.C. O’Connor spoke to the necessity for civics education in maintaining an independent judiciary. The former associate justice also expressed doubt about the process in some states of electing…
New York Republican George Santos expelled by U.S. House in bipartisan vote
George Santos is surrounded by journalists as he leaves the U.S. Capitol after his fellow members of Congress voted to expel the New York Republican from the House of Representatives on Dec. 1, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with 23 felonies in New York, including fraud and campaign finance…