First Lady Melania Trump announced today that her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham will become the White House press secretary. Sarah Sanders left her post as press secretary earlier this month to return home to Arkansas. From Fox News:
Stephanie Grisham, a top aide to first lady Melania Trump, was named Tuesday to replace...
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump famously put out a list of judges he would consider for the Supreme Court if he were elected.
The list served both to assure conservatives and also to motivate Republican voters. It’s widely agreed that the Supreme Court specifically, and the federal judiciary more generally, were...
Mitch McConnell’s decision not to permit confirmation proceedings for Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in 2016 is an open, oozing, and painful wound from which Democrats have not emotionally recovered.
McConnell just poured salt in that wound.
The Trump judicial confirmation train kept rolling down the tracks the past few weeks, as you probably were distracted by the news cycle frenzy of the day.
Trump has the opportunity to reshape the federal judiciary at every level.
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that conservative commentator Stephen Moore withdrew from consideration for the Federal Reserve board.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday after butting heads with President Donald Trump over policy and border control issues. He recently asked her “to close the ports of entry along the border and to stop accepting asylum seekers, which Ms. Nielsen found ineffective and inappropriate.”
Trump has...
Mitch McConnell has been a bad boy (in the eyes of Democrats) according to my email inbox:
Much focus the past week has been on the anti-Semitic accusations of dual and disloyalty from Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar, backed by the progressive wing of the party, particularly Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Democrats not only have been unable to deal with it, they connived to water down a planned...
There has been a fair amount of conservative frustration that the Trump administration was slow to get off the mark to renominate and start the confirmation process for judicial nominees held over from the last Congress.
Particularly as to vacancies on the 9th Circuit, there were fears that the administr...
Neomi Rao is the nominee to fill the vacancy created on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals created when Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court after a vicious campaign against him.
Rao’s Judiciary Committee hearing is Tuesday, February 5. Senate Democrats and liberal interest groups are try...
There was a huge outcry in conservative media over the past couple of days regarding a deal allegedly being worked out with liberal Democrat Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, as to nominees to fill vacancies.
We covered the issue in Trump has opportunity to flip the 9th Circuit, so why isn’t he? Rush...
Bringing the federal judiciary back to the center has been one of the great successes of Trump’s first two years in office.
As mentioned many times before, Trump was presented with an opportunity to realign the federal judiciary for a generation given the large number of Court of Appeals and District Court...
I’m so old, I remember when Republicans were ramming judicial nominations through the Senate, and Democrats were squealing like stuck pigs about it.
Then came Jeff Flake’s attempt to disrupt the process unless a bill were passed protecting Mueller, and...
85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suffered multiple health setbacks in recent months.
She fell and broke some ribs, and then had cancerous tumors removed from her lungs. Recovery from the lung surgery caused Ginsburg to miss
As a Catholic woman, I am very familiar with the faith-based, charity activities organized by our parish’s Knights of Columbus group.
I must have missed the memo saying it was a chauvinist, religious cabal intent on creating a pontifical version of “A Handmaid’s Tale”. It’s a good thing US senators Kamala Harris...
President Donald Trump will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to take over as UN Ambassador to replace Nikki Haley. From The Washington Examiner:
“Heather Nauert will be nominated [for U.S. ambassador]. She’s done work with Nikki Haley to replace Nikki at the United Nations. She will be ambassador to the United...
