Ohio Republican discusses court packing, his face-off with Fauci and White House interference with the DOJ.
Four Democratic senators are meeting Wednesday with a Supreme Court-packing advocacy group, Demand Justice, to discuss legislation to add four seats to the high court.
Democratic Reps. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jerry Nadler of New York, Mondaire Jones of New York and House Courts Subcommittee Chair Hank Johnson of Georgia, as well as former Vermont governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Democratic Strategist Karen Finney and other activists will be at Wednesday s meeting to discuss the bill.
Democrats push to expand the Supreme Court has gained momentum since President Biden took office, but Demand Justice has been leading the charge since around 2018, when the group s director, Brian Fallon, was first introduced to Elie Mystal, a justice correspondent for The Nation and executive editor of Above the Law.
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In One of the Oldest Congresses Ever, the Democrats Majority May Depend on Good Health Historians in the News
On March 21, 1950, an Illinois congressman named Ralph Church suddenly slumped in his seat while testifying before a House committee. His colleagues rushed to administer aid, but he was pronounced dead of a heart attack at 66.
He was neither the first nor the last member of Congress to die in office. “You look back in history, nearly one in 10 members of Congress have,” said Jane L. Campbell, president of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society.
That history has some Democrats worried that deaths or illnesses could derail President Biden’s efforts to pass ambitious bills through Congress, which his party controls by the narrowest margins in decades.
McCarthy Sets Wednesday Vote on Ouster of Liz Cheney
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The top House Republican portrays the party’s purge of a powerful critic of Donald Trump as the forward-looking move of a “big tent party.” President Biden defends federal unemployment benefits but says workers must accept suitable offers.
Representative Elise Stefanik of New York is seeking to become the No. 3 House Republican.Credit.Erik S Lesser/EPA, via Shutterstock
Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the top House Republican, on Monday defended his move to oust Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming as the party’s No. 3 leader, portraying the purge of the most powerful Republican critic of Donald J. Trump as the forward-looking move of a “big tent party.”