BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with a porn star. |
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A Thursday night hearing's descent into chaos earned rebuke from both sides of the aisle after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) attacked another member's physical appearance, a barb Democrats said had racial undertones. House Oversight and Accountability Committee lawmakers railed against the episode as "disgusting," "embarrassing," and a "middle school fight." |
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) comments about her physical appearance demonstrate that she's "absolutely" racist. "She is racist. I mean, I don't have any questions about that. Because, I mean, I don't know that she's ever attacked her own colleagues," Crockett said. |
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CNN commentator Van Jones slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) following her personal attacks on a fellow member of Congress during a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday night. "I think that the standard of conduct has been pulled down slow by some of these folks in Congress," Jones said Friday in comments on CNN. "They go there 'cause they want to be celebrities. I'm talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene and others." |
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| Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, says it's "worth investigating" whether lawmakers were drinking during Thursday's explosive hearing, after rumors circulated that noncommittee members were intoxicated. |
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| BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND JARED GANS |
The tens of thousands of primary votes cast in favor of Nikki Haley over the last several months are underscoring the apparent discontent many Republicans feel with former President Trump as their presumptive nominee, raising alarm for his campaign and fueling questions over whether he needs to do more to unify the party's different factions. |
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| Allies to President Biden are concerned that Future Forward — the preferred super PAC backing the president's reelection bid — isn't doing enough in the late spring and summer months to help build a narrative boosting the president and his accomplishments. |
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called on Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from all cases related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021, after it was reported an upside-down American flag was flown outside his home in the days surrounding the attack. |
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Friday to apologize for "disrespecting" the American flag. "Samuel Alito should apologize immediately for disrespecting the American flag and sympathizing with right-wing violent insurrectionists," Jeffries said in a statement in a press release Friday. |
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| Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Crestview, Fla., to go to school every day. |
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OPINION | A lot of people who ought to know better have been saying a lot of very silly things about Donald Trump's trial lately. They're silly, in part, because they are nonsense — but they are nonetheless dangerous. House Speaker Mike Johnson turned up at Trump's hush-money trial to attack the process, the players and the players' family members, claiming, "Among the atrocities here, the judge's own daughter is making millions of dollars doing online fundraising for Democrats." |
OPINION | Kudos to Team Biden for successfully landing the first punch in the presidential free-for-all (aka, the campaign). By challenging Donald Trump to a debate and dictating the terms of play, President Biden left his opponent with two impossible choices: decline the opportunity to face off against Biden on national TV and be declared a coward, or agree to the meet, even knowing the playing field is tilted in favor of the incumbent. |
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The Pentagon is rushing to expand its capacity to wage war in space, convinced that rapid advances by China and Russia in space-based operations pose a growing threat to U.S. troops and other military assets on the ground and American satellites in orbit. |
SEDONA, Ariz.—Jody Hendryx, Gaia Lamb and Dale Young are voters here supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent bid for the presidency. Their political pasts couldn't be more different. |
PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) — The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first court appearance Saturday as the nation's leader remained in serious condition recovering from surgery after surviving multiple gunshots, Slovak state media said. |
KYIV — While the rolling plains of Ukraine's countryside are in full spring bloom, officials already fear what the distant winter will bring as a major energy crisis grips the country and power companies resort to phased blackouts to conserve supplies. |
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