Adam Schiff is accustomed to having things his way. But now, he’s in real trouble. It all stems from Schiff’s use and abuse of his power as Intelligence Committee chairman to subpoena phone records. Schiff used this power to snoop on fellow Intelligence committee member Devin Nunes. Schiff is...
Officials have confirmed that at least 25 people were killed and 130 others wounded when one or more gunmen took aim at Iraqis assembled in Baghdad early Saturday morning to protest Iranian influence over their government, The Hill reported. Power was cut to the area, causing protesters to flee...
President Donald Trump and his legal team had until this past Friday to respond to a letter from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) — one requesting that they declare whether or not they will participate in upcoming impeachment proceedings. And respond, they did. Not only did...
Many have speculated about how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) really feels about her party’s quest to impeach President Donald Trump. According to Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL), Pelosi was essentially forced into impeachment, she knows it is potentially calamitous for her party, and she knows it will cost the...
Senate Democrats have put the repeal of an Obamacare tax on the table as part of negotiations to finalize the federal government’s 2020 budget, The Hill reported Saturday. The so-called “Cadillac” tax had not yet gone into effect, but was scheduled to do so in 2022. A vote to...
Rumors have long swirled that President Donald Trump plans to dump Vice President Mike Pence ahead of the 2020 election to replace him with another big-name conservative. But according to Pence, that’s not going to happen. “I’m honored that [Trump has] asked me to run with him again,” the...
On Saturday, the office of Vice President Mike Pence responded to Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) request to declassify material referenced in testimony given by a Pence aide before the House Intelligence Committee. Suffice it to say that Pence will not be giving in to Schiff’s declassification request. The vice...
Critics have long cited Bill Barr’s handling of the Robert Mueller-led special counsel investigation into alleged Trump–Russia collusion as evidence that the attorney general is serving as little more than a personal lawyer for President Donald Trump in his role as head of the Justice Department. In an attempt...
2019 has been a massively successful year for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and one of the Department of Homeland Security’s key investigative arms. According to a news release from ICE, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division achieved record success during the 2019 fiscal year, tallying record-breaking totals...
In what was widely viewed as an expression of disapproval toward the Trump administration’s relationship with Israel, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution largely along party lines on Friday that reaffirmed congressional support for a “two-state solution” to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, The Hill reported. The...
If the House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump, his fate will hinge on a Senate trial. But while the GOP holds a majority in the upper chamber, a new report from The Hill suggests that Trump is far from guaranteed a victory. In a report Saturday,...
In August, President Donald Trump’s administration issued a regulatory reform that, according to The Hill, “links immigrants’ legal status to their use of public benefits.” Essentially, the policy considers any immigrant who is dependent on government aid like food stamps for more than 12 months in a 36-month period...
Presidents are impeachable for three reasons – bribery, “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and the most serious charge of all – treason. Up until now, Democrats have tried to pin their hopes of impeaching President Trump on vague allegations of “quid pro quo” or strained interpretations of the word “bribery.”...
Republican leaders in the House are exploring “a wide variety of strong responses” after Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) published phone records of ranking committee member Devin Nunes (R-CA), reporter John Solomon, and others in his committee’s impeachment inquiry report, a top GOP aide told the Washington Examiner....
