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Ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), following the introduction of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor by

In a welcome break from past policy, the Obama administration last week announced that it will abandon a handful of deceptive budget gimmicks used perennially

The Washington Post runs a breathless piece of Kremlinology arguing that Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is a force of political reason within

Speaking in the Rose Garden, surrounded by three unemployed workers, this morning President Obama again castigated Republicans for blocking the federal

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into allegations of racial profiling and abuse by federal agents in the Detroit area has cleared officials of any wrongdoing and prompted bitter disappointment among immigrant rights advocates. In April ICE Director John Morton met with community groups in Detroit and promised to investigate reports that officers triggered panic and disrupted learning by following parents as they dropped off and picked up their kids at Hope of Detroit Academy and Neinas Elementary School in predominately Latino Southwest Detroit

Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian negotiating team has accepted a draft version of a deal to ship nuclear fuel out of the country for

With eight days remaining in Congress’ two-week spring recess, Sen. Arlen J. Specter (R-Penn.) is calling on his colleagues to get back to work. In an interview

Facing morning headlines indicating that Democrats are leaning toward a partisan approach to health care reform, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the

Carl Swensson, the man who’s trying to get legally dubious Citizen Grand Juries to indict President Obama for ... something (Swensson doesn’t even think

Here’s an interesting fact: despite the massive size of the Gulf oil spill, it’s not actually the biggest oil spill ever to occur in the United States. That

The White House sent a budget amendment to Congress last night that would set aside money for the reorganization of the Interior Department’s offshore drilling

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documents from the Department of Homeland

Ed Whelan digs up an April 17 speech by Sonia Sotomayor in which she praises the election of President Obama and says our challenge as lawyers and court

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas today leads the conservative wing of the Supreme Court in an unusual decision that rules that plaintiffs in age

The Wall Street Journal reports on a J.P. Morgan Chase analysis showing that the oil spill choking off fishing and tourism dollars to the Gulf might actually

PELLA — What does former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich consider to be the biggest single challenge facing America? Well, being honest about what the challenges actually are

Here’s what the country’s leading editorial boards had to say about Ted Kennedy. Michael Steele tries to reconcile his support for Medicare with his

Seriously, that’s the gist of a panel next week at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The peace-building think tank wants to explore the lessons of SMS-based

In a symbolic gesture, the Senate this afternoon approved a resolution calling for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democacy activist

A TWI analysis of tight House and Senate races finds the recession isn’t slowing the flow of money into lawmakers’ coffers.