Day: October 31, 2019

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday sharply questioned a Justice Department lawyer about President Trump’s attempt to block a congressional subpoena to his former White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, suggesting that the Trump administration’s legal arguments posed a threat to constitutional checks and balances. In a lengthy […]

WASHINGTON — When the Republican-led House voted in 1998 to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Bill Clinton, 31 Democrats sided with Republicans, and the White House breathed a sigh of relief that the number was not significantly larger. In today’s hyper-polarized Washington, defections of that magnitude on the question […]

Representative Katie Hill, the first-term Democratic congresswoman who resigned her House seat this week, delivered an impassioned farewell speech on Capitol Hill on Thursday, denouncing “gutter politics” and attributing her resignation to a double standard toward women. Ms. Hill, who represented a suburban Los Angeles district, said she was resigning […]

Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox. We asked. You answered! There’s been a lot of debate within political circles over whether Democrats are calling out for a savior to enter the 2020 primary, or whether they’re just fine with who they’ve got, thank you very much. […]

Escalating the war of words between Wall Street and Senator Elizabeth Warren, Leon Cooperman, a billionaire money manager, denounced her recent tweet encouraging him to “pitch in a bit more” because of his success in life, saying she sounded like “a parent chiding an ungrateful child.” “However much it resonates […]

Paula White, a televangelist based in Florida and personal pastor to President Trump whom he has known since 2002, has joined the Trump administration in an official capacity, according to a White House official. Ms. White will work in the Office of Public Liaison, the official said, which is the […]

Chuck Ross on October 31, 2019 Timothy Morrison, the White House’s senior director for European affairs, told Congress on Thursday that he did not believe ‘anything illegal’ transpired in a phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. Morrison is the second White House official who listened in on the […]