President Donald Trump’s war on Iran is so unpopular that even a majority of Republicans say they want the incoming Democratic majority in Congress to end it, new polling finds, as emerging leader on the effort Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) vows to take action even sooner. According to Reuters/Ipsos polling released this week, 71 percent of Americans want the new Congress to pass…
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House GOP leaders said they would quash the impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. On Tuesday, they managed to do just that.
In a 211-204 vote, the House adopted a procedural motion to refer the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee, effectively shelving the effort.
Rep. Thomas Massie was the only Republican to vote with Democrats to keep the impeachment resolution alive, allowing GOP leaders to block the resolution from advancing to a final vote and denying Massie — who spearheaded the impeachment drive — a chance to force a vote on whether Hegseth should be removed from office.
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While Republicans worried that attendance could allow Democrats to succeed, the vote Tuesday saw Democrats having more missing lawmakers than Republicans, though that also means the effort could succeed on another day with more favorable numbers — or when Democrats take back the majority in January.
At the moment, however, the successful procedural vote is a relief for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. — especially after last week’s crushing midterm election losses. On Tuesday, the speaker told MS NOW he was confident Republicans had the votes to defeat the effort — and hours later, even with slim GOP margins, Johnson was right.
The vote also marks a show of support for President Donald Trump, who mounted an aggressive campaign to defend Hegseth from the charges.
In a series of Truth Social posts, Trump said Hegseth “should be praised, not impeached,” and he gave the secretary an “‘A’ PLUS, PLUS, PLUS” for his press conference responding to the effort.
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Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has called for GOP lawmakers in the state legislature to pass new limits on his Democratic successor, Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin, who won in the state’s “blue wave” last week. Patrick issued the call to alter the powers of his own office during an appearance on a conservative radio show on Monday. The office of lieutenant governor has far more…
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A federal appeals court barred the Trump administration Tuesday from accessing extensive LinkedIn chat records between multiple journalists and scores of their confidential sources as part of a national security leak investigation, arguing the government’s request would “deal a damaging blow” to the freedoms of the First Amendment.
In a unanimous opinion written by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, the three-judge panel said the Justice Department’s demand that the professional networking site turn over 18 months worth of the journalists’ private chat history records without their knowledge amounted to a “substantially overbroad” maneuver.
The data sought by the DOJ would have unnecessarily revealed the identities of “a vast number of confidential sources” to the federal government, swaths of whom would have had nothing to do with the investigation at hand, Wilkinson reasoned.
“Confidentiality of sources is the lifeblood of a free press,” Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, wrote in the opinion. “Without confidentiality, press coverage would be pushed in the direction of official handouts and outside sources. Without confidentiality, the ability of journalists to report on events of large importance and governmental behavior of dubious legality and integrity could not help but be hampered.”
The ruling ordered a district court to significantly narrow the set of records the Trump administration can access in connection with the DOJ’s probe, which the agency opened after a news outlet published an article that revealed “a top-secret United States military operation in a foreign country” and included “classified intelligence,” according to Wilkinson. Neither the news organization nor the reporters who wrote that story have been identified.
The Trump administration has mounted aggressive bids to access reporters’ confidential source records across multiple
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced on Tuesday that he will not be supporting Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-New York) run for Senate majority leader in the new Congress and suggested that someone else will be running to replace him. “I personally have known Chuck Schumer for 30 years, and I like Chuck — nobody works harder than Chuck Schumer,” said Sanders in a press conference. “But…
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