The Department of Justice launched an effort to discourage threats against school administrators in early October, citing a “disturbing spike” in harassment and intimidation. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the move in a memo as parents nationwide push back against school districts over mask policies, vaccine requirements and lessons on what they call “critical race…

Cloture is a process the Senate is using on a fairly frequent basis. It’s a procedural vote, or as it’s sometimes called, a test vote. It’s one of the first ways to see if a bill will live or die. Cloture is a French word meaning ‘to terminate.’ That’s how the Senate uses it, to start…

Fans of the United States Constitution pride themselves on the concept of balance of power among the three branches of government. The legislative branch can raise taxes, amend the Constitution and enact laws. The executive branch can veto them, control the military and appoint judges. The judicial branch can declare laws and presidential actions unconstitutional…

Democrats unveiled their new plan for budget reconciliation Monday, and it did not include raising the debt ceiling. Republicans had been saying this is something Democrats need to do on their own, pushing them to pass a ceiling increase though reconciliation, which needs just 50 votes. For months, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been begging…

The Senate sent the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to the House after a final vote on the bill Tuesday morning. Senators have spent the past week going over nearly two dozen amendments to the 2,700-page package. So far, none of those amendments have substantially changed its framework. The vote for the bill was 69-30,…

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice is launching an investigation into allegations saying police officers in Phoenix used excessive force against homeless people in the city. According to Garland, the investigation will also look into whether police have used discriminatory policing practices. Investigators will try to figure out if officers…

Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google, along with each company’s CEO. The class action suits accuse the companies of wrongful censorship. “We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well,” Trump…

Thursday is the last day for the current Supreme Court session, and we could see several major rulings handed down before the end of the day. Perhaps the biggest surrounds two Arizona voting restrictions. One rejects ballots cast in the wrong precinct. The other limits who can deliver ballots on someone else’s behalf to family,…

NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race. An attorney disciplinary committee said in its motion to suspend Giuliani’s license that there was “uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani had…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a cheerleader over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn’t qualify for the varsity team. The court voted 8-1 in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not…