by Erum Salam | Nov 8, 2026 | Congress, elections, News, White House
Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested Sunday that Democratic lawmakers who are planning to launch oversight investigations into the Trump administration could be criminally prosecuted.
“What we‘ve seen over the past several days and even over the past several weeks are outright threats,” Blanche said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Asked if he considered those threats to be a crime, Blanche said, “It depends on what’s said. So yes, there could be.”
Blanche himself is a potential target of impeachment, Rep. Jamie Raskin, who is poised to become chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told MS NOW a day after Election Day.
The attorney general’s stark warning came a day after President Donald Trump railed against the incoming congressional majority on social media, saying, “These SLEAZEBAGS should go to jail for what they are doing.”
“You have free speech in this country. You are allowed to be critical of President Trump, of me, of this administration,” Blanche said. “But when the threats become so vile and so dangerous that you are telling people in college that they better be careful if they want to work in the Trump administration because somebody will come after them, at some point, you have to draw the line.”
The attorney general was referring to Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s “deterrence message” last month to students at the University of Chicago. Slotkin was among a group of Democratic lawmakers investigated by the Department of Justice last year after urging U.S. military service members to “refused illegal orders” by Trump administration officials.
Even before winning both chambers of Congress five days ago by strikingly large numbers, Democrats said they planned to hold
by David Rohde | Nov 8, 2026 | Iran, News, White House, World
A legal group accused the Trump administration on Sunday of planning to violate a judge’s order that bars the deportation of Iranian nationals back to their home country without sufficient notification to a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
In court filings, the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund said it had been told that 11 Iranian nationals — 10 men and one woman — were scheduled to be flown by Immigration Customs and Enforcement from Mesa, Arizona, to Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday. From there, Iranian officials would take them back to Iran, where they could face persecution from Iranian officials as well as dangers posed by potential U.S. airstrikes.
“We have received credible information from multiple independent sources indicating that the U.S. government is proceeding with plans to deport Iranian nationals, including asylum seekers, to Iran, via Pakistan, despite a federal court order requiring five business days’ advance notice,” Yasmine Chubin, the group’s executive director, told MS NOW.
The administration previously deported Iranians in the months leading up to the war President Donald Trump launched jointly with Israel against Iran. Some of the 11 people expected to be on the planned Sunday flight had been held in detention for months, according to lawyers and a relative of the detainees.
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Beyond the sheer recklessness of forcibly returning people to a country with which the United States is at war and against which it is actively conducting military strikes, the government appears poised to disregard a federal court order designed to ensure basic oversight and accountability,” Chubin added. ”These are
by Anthony Coley | Nov 8, 2026 | Opinion, White House
Chuck Schumer should prepare to step down as Senate Democratic leader. Obviously not because he failed during last week’s midterm elections, but because his party won.
On Tuesday, Schumer helped lead Democrats back to a Senate majority despite an electoral map that favored Republicans. He’ll never have a better moment to plan his exit, and he should announce now that January 2028 is the time to make it.
Schumer’s victory gives him a rare opportunity: the chance to pass the baton to a new generation from a position of strength.
Schumer’s victory gives him a rare opportunity: the chance to pass the baton to a new generation from a position of strength.
There’s something to be said for going out on top. John Elway won back-to-back Super Bowls and retired. Oprah Winfrey ended her talk show after 25 seasons, still the queen of daytime. George Mitchell gave up his job as Senate majority leader and went on to help bring peace to Northern Ireland.
Schumer has spent a lifetime mastering the Senate. Now he has a chance to master something far more rare in Washington: the art of knowing when to step aside.
But first, we should give Schumer his due. He has shepherded landmark legislation through a narrowly divided Senate, he recruited candidates who won in states Republicans expected to hold and just pulled off a rout few saw coming.
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Schumer has his critics within the Democratic caucus, and not without reason. But this isn’t an argument about his past shortcomings. It’s about an opportunity before him: to leave his party
by Lauren Harper | Nov 8, 2026 | Congress, Investigations, Opinion, Trump Administration
With Democrats’ decisive midterm election wins, incoming committee chairs are promising a blitz of investigations. Targets include potential abuses of power by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a culture of self-enrichment without precedent in modern American history.
This is an appropriate reaction to two years of nearly unchecked executive power. But these investigations can be only as good as the records that agencies and the White House have preserved, and the effectiveness and independence of the system charged with releasing them. Lawmakers will be stymied if the records they demand have been destroyed or have vanished into encrypted, auto-deleting apps, or if agencies continue to weaponize their classification authority.
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This anti-accountability obfuscation is poised to play out on two fronts.
Across federal agencies, there is little reason to believe political appointees who regularly stonewall will begin complying with congressional inquiries. Secrecy has been the norm in the second Trump administration. We are likely to see agencies refuse to respond to committee requests for information, ignore Freedom of Information Act requests on investigative topics and continue to scrub government websites of public information. All this is compounded by the administration’s systematic purging of career inspectors general and replacement of those independent professionals with political loyalists so far unwilling to investigate waste, abuse and potential destruction of evidence.
There is little reason to believe political appointees who regularly stonewall will begin complying with congressional inquiries.
Inside the White House, secrecy tactics could grow even more brazen. To ensure that critical records — from President Donald Trump’s working papers to the communications of high-level appointees,
by Nicholas Mitchell | Nov 8, 2026 | elections, Opinion, Politics
To win his U.S. Senate race in Texas last week, Democrat James Talarico, who’s white, had to mend some fences with Black voters after he defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who’s Black, in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. There were already hard feelings between Black voters and Democrats left over from 2024. Some prominent party members had blamed Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump on “wokeness,” which Black voters rightly read as code for “Black issues.” Also, because Black women have so reliably voted for Democrats, many of them in Texas were offended at the seemingly reflexive claim by some Democrats at the start of the primary between Crockett and Talarico that he was the more electable one.
The lingering bitterness from Black voters forced him to engage in what can be described as a racial reconciliation-oriented campaign strategy.
Talarico had won the majority of white Democrats and Latinos in winning the nomination, but the lingering bitterness from Black voters forced him to engage in what can be described as a racial reconciliation-oriented campaign strategy to make up with Black voters without losing the support among of the groups he carried to win the nomination. His victory over Republican Ken Paxton to become the first Democrat to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas in 36 years, proves his strategy succeeded.
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed didn’t defeat a Black candidate on his way to winning his party’s nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, but he did have to appeal to Black voters who felt that Harris lost Michigan because Arab and Muslim voters punished Harris for President Joe Biden’s Gaza policy.
