Senate Majority Leader John Thune weighed in on the SAVE America Act on Tuesday, saying, “I can’t guarantee an outcome” for the bill’s passage. CBS News’ Taurean Small has more. Source link
President Donald Trump has vowed not to sign any bills into law until the SAVE America Act is passed, escalating his pressure campaign to get a sweeping voting bill across the finish line before this fall’s elections. The bill’s future is murky in the Senate, where it lacks enough support to clear the 60-vote filibuster … Read more
Polls are about to close in the Georgia 14th Congressional District special election to elect who will replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress. The seat has been vacant since January, when Greene resigned following a monthslong public fight with President Trump over foreign policy issues and the release of documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein case. … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., a top progressive in Congress, is backing former businessman and Kansas state representative Raj Goyle in his bid to become New York’s next comptroller — even as he’s framed himself in the past as a moderate with a track record of agreeing with … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Arizona state lawmaker revealed Monday that federal authorities subpoenaed him for records related to the 2020 election, marking the second publicly confirmed jurisdiction the Department of Justice is investigating over the matter. Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, a Republican, said in a social media post he … Read more
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that his vote to confirm outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristin Noem was a “big mistake,” and “what we want to see is not just the change in the nameplate on the door” from President Trump’s new nominee Markwayne Mullin. Source link
SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped … Read more
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — While the U.S. Senate remains deadlocked over President Donald Trump’s call for strict citizenship voting requirements, Republicans in some states are pressing ahead with their own measures that could require documentary proof of citizenship to join or remain on the voter rolls. Proof-of-citizenship legislation won final approval this week in South … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant from Mauritania was charged with fraudulent voting after allegedly casting ballots in Pennsylvania in the last five presidential elections, prosecutors said. Mahady Sacko, a 50-year-old Philadelphia resident who was ordered to be deported from the U.S. in 2000, “allegedly unlawfully voted in person in … Read more
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died, according to the Associated Press. Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. Bernard Lafayette … Read more