President Donald Trump touted his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and said the two would meet ‘someday’ — just before a summit at the White House with South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung.  During Trump’s first term in office, the president met with Kim on Read More

President Donald Trump vowed to sue over a Senate practice that allows a lawmaker to block his U.S. attorney and district court nominees, as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee stood firm against doing away with the tradition.  Trump homed in on the ‘blue slip’ tradition in Read More

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened a lawsuit over the Senate’s century-old ‘blue slip’ tradition that he says makes it ‘impossible’ for him to appoint a judge or U.S. attorney. Trump made the comments to reporters in the Oval Office while signing executive orders regarding the elimination of Read More

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is again standing firm against President Donald Trump’s demand that Senate tradition be changed to ram through his district court and U.S. attorney nominees. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, came under fire from Trump again late Sunday night over Read More

When federal agents raided the home and office of former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday as part of a classified documents investigation, some Democrats and liberal commentators framed the development as another example of what they claim is President Donald Trump’s political weaponization of the justice system. Read More

Gen. Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, the military officer who oversaw the execution of the Iran strikes in June, has retired from military service and has handed over the reins following three years leading U.S. troops in the Middle East.  Kurilla, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Read More

France has summoned American ambassador Charles Kushner to Paris, after the diplomat accused the country of not doing enough to combat antisemitism in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron. France’s foreign ministry said in a statement issued Sunday that Kushner’s allegations ‘are unacceptable,’ and announced it had Read More

Jeffrey Epstein did not have the same level of impact in the Senate as the House, but the discourse pushed by many congressional Democrats, and some Republicans, is unlikely to go away when lawmakers return next week. And the level of Epstein hysteria in Congress may have had an unlikely Read More