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Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning (Pic via dos.state.fl.us) A Miami judge today threw out a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the state’s plans to implement its controversial elections overhaul in 62 counties while a handful of other counties await preclearance from the federal government. The Sun Sentinel reports : The ACLU argued that the state couldn’t implement the law in some of the counties while waiting to see if the law passed federal muster in the five counties subject to the Voting Rights Act

On a conference call with reporters just moments ago, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) voiced a cautious optimism over President Obama’s rejection of the automakers’

Yesterday’s landmark Wall Street Journal piece about Afghanistan featured an anonymous military official who downplayed the significance of the Marine campaign

A self-described “center right” Hispanic Republican group announced its two New Mexico state coordinators on Thursday. The Hispanic Leadership Network named Jamie Estrada, a former Bush administration official, and Christopher Saucedo, an Albuquerque attorney, to run the group’s grassroots outreach efforts in the state. In September, HLN kicked off its efforts in the Southwest by holding a conference in Albuquerque having as keynote speaker Gov.

The Washington Post has an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder in which Holder, for the first time, appears to give himself breathing room to abandon

Just posted to the Senate’s site: 20 Democrats -- mostly from rural, low-population states -- voted in favor of the gun amendment. Two Republicans, Sens. George

The district is the sort of largely white, largely pro-life, conservative area where reporters once found Reagan Democrats, and the sort that needs to flip if Republicans are to take back the House.

After meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the White House today, President Obama issued a directive giving Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

The $700 billion bank bailout was supposed to stabilize banks and get them lending again. However, some of the recipients seem more interested in rallying big

The oil and gas industry’s water needs may be just a sliver of all the water use across Texas — less than one percent, according to one recent study — but

Virginia’s Tom Davis, the ranking Republican on the House oversight committee, told The Washington Independent that the Iraq war is a war we fought where we

I asked in an earlier post just what the State Department did with information provided by ArmorGroup whistleblower John Gorman that the office of Sen. Joe

Beef officially squashed. Here’s what Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said about CIA director-(quasi-)designate Leon Panetta to reporters outside the Senate

Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform just hosted a meeting of Republican/conservative/libertarian techie types—everyone from MyManMitt.com founder

The Hill reports that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has declined to sign a letter circulated by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, asking

Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who suffered an aneurysm Tuesday night while driving near Cleveland, has died this evening, according to the Associated

Just days after the Obama administration announced that it is investigating China’s clean energy trade policies, The New York Times is reporting that the

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is gunning for Colorado Freshman Representative Cory Gardner with a bold gas-station advertising campaign that highlights his votes in support of oil industry tax breaks and deregulation, on one side, and his votes to prune Medicare, on the other. Ads will appear atop gas pumps in the Fourth District, capturing constituents as they watch their price-of-purchase climb. The ad text underlines the contrast between individual taxpayers sweating out the economy and the mega-profiting non-tax-paying corporations like Chevron and Exxon that are hiking gas prices in a recession without fear of political response.