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Andy Harris

 
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01/31/2025 --nbcnews
Democrats will take their first tangible step this weekend to drag themselves forward from their 2024 election loss: electing the next chair of the DNC.
01/30/2025 --foxnews
President Donald Trump's economic warfare and "respect equals fear" philosophy will be key tenets of his administration's foreign policy approach as he begins his second term in the White House.
01/27/2025 --martinsvillebulletin
As White House staff secretary, he plays a key role in overseeing the flow of information and business to and from the president.
01/23/2025 --foxnews
House lawmakers are growing more uneasy about the looming government funding deadline.
01/23/2025 --rollcall
Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. The Senate this week took up a bill that could punish physicians who fail to resuscitate infants born during an abortion. That in itself [...]The post At the Races: March for Life brings abortion votes appeared first on Roll Call.
01/22/2025 --benzinga
Social media followers of the president, first lady and vice president were surprised to learn that they now follow people they may not have wanted to after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president on Monday.What Happened: Users of Instagram and Facebook, which are owned by Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META), have experienced several recent changes including CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing the end of content moderation teams.Instagram and Facebook users who followed Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Jill Biden over the past several years were also surprised to find themselves now following Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and Melania Trump after Monday.Users were quick to blame Meta Platforms and cite the potential influence of Zuckerberg, who has been cozying up to Trump in recent months. Zuckerberg attended the inauguration and Meta recently donated $1 million to the president's inauguration fund.Some users reported they were unable to unfollow the accounts of the new political leaders, including singer Demi Lovato, as reported by Variety."I have unfollowed this guy twice today," Lovato said of the @vp account now belonging to Vance. "Shady f***ing business meta."Meta contends they have done nothing wrong and this is the practice done in past presidential transitions. The official accounts for @potus, @vp and @flotus have been transferred over to the new people in those roles, while keeping the same followers and the content being wiped clean and archived to other accounts."People were not ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
01/18/2025 --dailykos
People on polar sides of the abortion debate are preparing to fight over how far the protection for abortion extends.by Bram Sable-Smith and Katheryn Houghton, for KFF Health NewsIn November, Montana voters safeguarded the right to abortion in the state’s constitution. They also elected a new chief justice to the Montana Supreme Court who was endorsed by anti-abortion advocates.That seeming contradiction is slated to come to a head this year. People on polar sides of the abortion debate are preparing to fight over how far the protection for abortion extends, and the final say will likely come from the seven-person state Supreme Court. With the arrival of new Chief Justice Cory Swanson, who ran as a judicial conservative for the nonpartisan seat and was sworn in Jan. 6, the court now leans more conservative than before the election.A similar dynamic is at play elsewhere. Abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote in November. But even with new voter-approved constitutional protections, courts will have to untangle a web of existing state laws on abortion and square them with any new ones legislators approve. The new makeup of supreme courts in several states indicates that the results of the legal fights to come aren’t clear-cut.Activists have been working to reshape high courts, which in recent years have become the final arbiters of a patchwork of laws regulating abortions. That’s because the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned federal abortion protections, leaving rulemaking to the states.Since then, the politics of state supreme court elections have been “supercharged” as fights around abortion shifted to states’ top courts, according to Douglas Keith, a senior counsel at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice.“Because we’re human, you can’t scrub these races of any political connotations at all,” said former Montana Supreme Court Justice Jim Nelson. “But it’s getting worse.”The wave of abortion litigation in state courts has spawned some of the most expensive state supreme court races in history, including more than $42 million spent on the nonpartisan 2023 Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where abortion access was among the issues facing the court. Janet Protasiewicz won the seat, flipping the balance of the court to a liberal majority.In many states, judicial elections are nonpartisan but political parties and ideological groups still lobby for candidates. In 2024, abortion surfaced as a top issue in these races.In Michigan, spending by non-candidate groups alone topped $7.6 million for the two open seats on the state Supreme Court. The Michigan races are officially labeled as nonpartisan, although candidates are nominated by political parties.An ad for the two candidates backed by Democrats cautioned that “the Michigan state Supreme Court can still take abortion rights away” even after voters added abortion protections to the state constitution in 2022. The ad continued, “Kyra Harris Bolden and Kimberly Thomas are the only Supreme Court candidates who will protect access to abortion.” Both won their races.Abortion opponent Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, decried the influence of abortion politics on state court elections. “Pro-abortion activists know they cannot win through the legislatures, so they have turned to state courts to override state laws,” Pritchard said.Some abortion opponents now support changes to the way state supreme courts are selected.Residents sign a petition in support of the ballot initiative to end Missouri's near-total ban on abortion, which passed in November.In Missouri, where voters passed a constitutional amendment in November to protect abortion access, the new leader of the state Senate, Cindy O’Laughlin, a Republican, has proposed switching to nonpartisan elections from the state’s current model, in which the governor appoints a judge from a list of three finalists selected by a nonpartisan commission. Although Republicans have held the governor’s mansion since 2017, she pointed to the Missouri Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling in September that allowed the abortion amendment to remain on the ballot and said courts “have undermined legislative efforts to protect life.”In a case widely expected to reach the Missouri Supreme Court, the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics are trying to use the passage of the new amendment to strike down Missouri’s abortion restrictions, including a near-total ban. O’Laughlin said her proposal, which would need approval from the legislature and voters, was unlikely to influence that current litigation but would affect future cases.“A judiciary accountable to the people would provide a fairer venue for addressing legal challenges to pro-life laws,” she said.Nonpartisan judicial elections can buck broader electoral trends. In Michigan, for example, voters elected both Supreme Court candidates nominated by Democrats last year even as Donald Trump won the state and Republicans regained control of the state House.In Kentucky’s nonpartisan race, Judge Pamela Goodwine, who was endorsed by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, outperformed her opponent even in counties that went for Trump, who won the state. She’ll be serving on the bench as a woman’s challenge to the state’s two abortion bans makes its way through state courts.Partisan judicial elections, however, tend to track with other partisan election results, according to Keith of the Brennan Center. So some state legislatures have sought to turn nonpartisan state supreme court elections into fully partisan affairs.In Ohio, Republicans have won every state Supreme Court seat since lawmakers passed a bill in 2021 requiring party affiliation to appear on the ballot for those races. That includes three seats up for grabs in November that solidified the Republican majority on the court from 4-3 to 6-1.“These justices who got elected in 2024 have been pretty open about being anti-abortion,” said Jessie Hill, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, who has been litigating a challenge to Ohio’s abortion restrictions since voters added protections to the state constitution in 2023.Until the recent ballot measure vote in Montana, the only obstacle blocking Republican-passed abortion restrictions from taking effect had been a 25-year-old decision that determined Montana’s right to privacy extends to abortion.Nelson, the former justice who was the lead author of the decision, said the court has since gradually leaned more conservative. He noted the state’s other incoming justice, Katherine Bidegaray, was backed by abortion rights advocates.“The dynamic of the court is going to change,” Nelson said after the election. “But the chief justice has one vote, just like everybody else.”Swanson, Montana’s new chief justice, had said throughout his campaign that he’ll make decisions case by case. He also rebuked his opponent, Jerry Lynch, for saying he’d respect the court’s ruling that protected abortion. Swanson called such statements a signal to liberal groups.At least eight cases are pending in Montana courts challenging state laws to restrict abortion access. Martha Fuller, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana, said that the new constitutional language, which takes effect in July, could further strengthen those cases but that the court’s election outcome leaves room for uncertainty.The state’s two outgoing justices had past ties to the Democratic Party. Fuller said they also consistently supported abortion as a right to privacy. “One of those folks is replaced by somebody who we don’t know will uphold that,” she said. “There will be this period where we’re trying to see where the different justices fall on these issues.”Those cases likely won’t end the abortion debate in Montana.As of the legislative session’s start in early January, Republican lawmakers, who have for years called the state Supreme Court liberal, had already proposed eight bills regarding abortion and dozens of others aimed at reshaping judicial power. Among them is a bill to make judicial elections partisan.Montana Sen. Daniel Emrich, a Republican who requested a bill titled “Prohibit dismembering of person and provide definition of human,” said it’s too early to know which restrictions anti-abortion lawmakers will push hardest.Ultimately, he said, any new proposed restrictions and the implications of the constitutional amendment will likely land in front of the state Supreme Court.KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.Subscribe to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
01/18/2025 --starexponent
"Your head will spin when you see what's going to happen," Trump said. Here's a closer look at what he promised to do on Day 1.
01/15/2025 --capitalgazette
Maryland’s wealthiest earners would pay more in state taxes while corporations and other workers would get a tax cut under a budget plan Gov. Wes Moore will introduce Wednesday.
01/14/2025 --kron4
The House is barreling towards a contentious debate over disaster relief for California as many — but not all — Republicans call for conditions to be placed on the assistance, an idea Democrats are soundly rejecting. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday threw his support behind placing stipulations on aid designed to help California recover from [...]
01/14/2025 --washingtontimes
House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to attach a raising of the nation's debt limit to a colossal border, tax and energy package is in flux, a sign that the key priority for President-elect Donald Trump may be meeting resistance among Republicans.
01/14/2025 --helenair
Cory Swanson, Montana’s new chief justice, said throughout his campaign he’ll make decisions case by case. He rebuked his opponent for saying he’d respect the court’s ruling that protected abortion.
01/14/2025 --6abc
Host Tamala Edwards interviews New Jersey U.S. Senator Andy Kim (D) on becoming the 1st Korean-American to serve in this capacity in the country. He discusses his new role.
12/29/2025 --bostonherald
Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, recently floated a proposal to elect billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump adviser and ally, as speaker. The speaker is not required to be an elected House member.
12/29/2025 --axios
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) warned his Republican colleagues on Sunday about potentially removing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from his post when the 119th Congress is sworn in this week. Why it matters: With a slim GOP majority in the House, Johnson can only afford to lose one vote among Republicans when the House votes on its new leader, and a battle over who that will be could delay other aspects of Congress — including certifying President-elect Trump's win. What they're saying: "The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when Matt Gaetz and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy, which will go down as the single stupidest thing I've ever seen in politics," Lawler said Sunday on ABC News' "This Week." "Removing Mike Johnson would equally be as stupid. The fact is that these folks are playing with fire. And if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they're kidding themselves," Lawler said.Zoom out: Johnson's odds of keeping the gavel grew slimmer after Trump torpedoed the stopgap spending bill and Congress spent the Friday before Christmas working to fend off a government shutdown.The bill that eventually passed didn't include a debt ceiling increase, a key demand from Trump and several MAGA allies. Following the bill's passage, several Republicans have openly voiced their opposition to Johnson continuing to lead the House, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) saying he won't vote for him. Others, including Reps. Scott Perry (R.Pa.) and Andy Harris (R-Md.), have said they're undecided on how they'll vote. Driving the news: "Mike Johnson is arguably the most conservative speaker that's ever been elected to the office," Lawler said before praising the job Johnson has done "despite the best efforts of some of these same people" who now want him ousted. "I'm not going to bend to their will," Lawler said of those pushing to remove Johnson. "So, if they think somehow that they are going to end up in a stronger position by removing Mike Johnson, they're not."Lawler also cautioned that Congress has a "lot of work to do on behalf of the American people" and a House Speaker battle would delay the start of that. "We can't get anything done unless we have a speaker, including certifying President Trump's election on January 6th. So, to waste time over a nonsensical intramural food fight is a joke," he said.
12/29/2025 --chicagotribune
Donald Trump is going to be our nation’s next president, but how he got there and how the Democrats lost are a journey worth revisiting.
12/24/2024 --starexponent
The House Ethics Committee's long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct. Here's a look at some of the committee's key findings.
12/21/2024 --robesonian
Even the most curmudgeonly of Scrooges can’t help but tap their toes when they hear the first few notes of the modern masterpiece “Mary’s Little Boy Child.” For that, we can all thank the North Carolinian who so memorably paired calypso and Christmas — though that was not his original intention.
12/21/2024 --kron4
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) averted a government shutdown, but the days-long rollercoaster as the leaders cycled through multiple plans leaves serious questions about how the Speaker will manage the House GOP under President-elect Trump — and whether he can keep his gavel. The intra-party clashes that were on full display this week will be even [...]
12/21/2024 --fox5sandiego
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline and refused President-elect Donald Trump’s core debt demands in the package. The deal funds the government at current levels [...]
12/21/2024 --fox5sandiego
More than 30 House Republicans voted against the government funding bill to avert a shutdown on Friday night. The legislation cleared the lower chamber with a 366-34-1 vote, surpassing the two-thirds requirement needed as the Republican House leadership brought it up under the suspension of the rules process. Every member of the Democratic caucus, outside [...]
12/21/2024 --axios
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) notched a major win Friday by averting a government shutdown, but it has not taken him out of the woods in his fight to retain the speaker's gavel on Jan. 3.Why it matters: Johnson will likely be able to bank just one GOP defection and still win. Many in the right-wing Freedom Caucus aren't committing to vote for him yet."Everybody's got different issues," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said of his fellow undecideds – including opinions on what Johnson "should be doing to rally support for various issues."Some, he said, wish the notoriously congenial speaker was "more forceful like Nancy Pelosi."State of play: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said this week he will vote for an alternative candidate – burning the single vote Johnson will likely have to spare in his incoming 219-215 majority.Plenty more said they are undecided, including Norman and Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Troy Nehls (R-Texas) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.).Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) floated making Elon Musk speaker, including in a survey sent out by email from her congressional office.Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), asked after the Friday spending vote whether he will support Johnson on Jan. 3, told Axios: "No comment."What they're saying: Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), another undecided, told Axios on Friday that "it's possible" Johnson will have trouble securing the support he needs."I've heard of many frustrations of people outside the Freedom Caucus" as well as inside, Crane added.After Friday's vote, Norman told Axios: "We can't let this happen again. We've got to force the issue."Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.), who told Axios on Wednesday he was supporting Johnson, declared after the vote Friday he was "now undecided."Between the lines: Johnson, like Kevin McCarthy before him, has faced frequent uprisings from his most right-leaning members for working across the aisle on issues like Ukraine aid and government funding.The right has also pressed GOP leadership to be more willing to shut the government down or even allow the U.S. to default on its debts in order to secure concessions from Democrats on spending and social policy.Both McCarthy and Johnson have opted to cut deals with Democrats than allow those scenarios to play out.Massie and Greene tried to oust Johnson from the speakership in May, but just 10 Republicans voted for the motion to remove him while 163 Democrats crossed the aisle to rescue him.Yes, but: For the moment, Johnson retains by far the biggest asset of any GOP speaker candidate – the support of President-elect Trump.Johnson was unanimously renominated for speaker by the House Republican conference last month after Trump endorsed him in the room.Burchett, asked about Johnson's reelection chances on Friday, said Trump "will play a role in that" and that Johnson "did what he asked" on the spending fight.Zoom in: Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), who has been one of Johnson's harshest critics at times, said the speaker handled the funding fight "the best way that he possibly could." "I just don't know who'd be next, and I don't want the chaos. We all want stability," Miller said of the speaker vote.Another House Republican who has been critical of Johnson at times told Axios they "haven't heard much about" any organized effort to defeat him.The bottom line: Johnson will likely have a whip operation on his hands for the two weeks leading up to the vote."It's such a slim majority that he'd be foolish to not want to touch base with everybody just to make sure," said Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.).
12/17/2024 --theepochtimes
The Maryland Republican was initially elected to lead the caucus in September, succeeding Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who lost his primary.
12/17/2024 --foxnews
Several Senate Democrats propose abolishing the Electoral College, a proposed move that GOP Sen. Mike Lee described as "a phenomenally bad idea."
12/16/2024 --kron4
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) will chair the House Freedom Caucus through the end of 2025, members of the group decided on Monday night, cementing his leadership of the hardline conservative caucus. “It is my honor to continue to serve as House Freedom Caucus chairman,” Harris said in a statement on his reelection. “This coming year [...]
12/13/2024 --martinsvillebulletin
President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution's suggestion of preserving the verdict.
12/13/2024 --dailycamera
Details of the injury have not been released
12/12/2024 --globegazette
Biden said he would be taking more steps in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions.
12/09/2024 --theepochtimes
The two legislators resigned from the House on Dec. 8 and begin serving their terms earlier than other newly elected senators.
12/09/2024 --nbcnews
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.
12/09/2024 --abcnews
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is taking on a lead role for Democratic efforts to win governorships in the 2026 midterm elections
12/08/2024 --starexponent
In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," he again suggested political rivals should be imprisoned and repeated his deportation promises.
12/05/2024 --rollcall
Just how tight was the battle for control of the House? Well, consider that if just three additional races had broken in Democrats’ favor, we would have had to wait for nearly a month on vote counting in California to determine which party had won the majority. And if that had happened, we might still [...]The post At the Races: Full House appeared first on Roll Call.
12/01/2024 --journalstar
Republicans now account for nearly 50% of Nebraska voters, according to state data, which also shows a growing number of voters are ditching both parties and becoming nonpartisan.
11/30/2024 --starexponent
Patel called for reducing the FBI's footprint, said he intends to aggressively hunt down leaks and wants to make it easier to sue journalists.
11/30/2024 --starexponent
Meanwhile, Trump threatened 100% tariffs against the BRIC alliance of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar.
11/30/2024 --martinsvillebulletin
The father of Trump’s son-in-law pleaded guilty years ago to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations; Trump pardoned him in 2020.
11/27/2024 --theepochtimes
Harris did not believe he would ever lead the conservative caucus. Now, he's at the helm as Republicans prepare for the Trump presidency.
11/26/2024 --starexponent
Trump also reached a required deal with the White House to allow his transition staff to coordinate with the existing federal workforce.
11/26/2024 --martinsvillebulletin
Bhattacharya was one of three authors an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.
11/23/2024 --starexponent
President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing experience on television as he chooses people to serve in his new administration.
11/22/2024 --martinsvillebulletin
Trump also rounded out his health team, including tapping a surgeon who opposed some public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
11/22/2024 --newser
A jury convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-US border during a blizzard, according to a prosecution spokesperson. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29,...
11/22/2024 --starexponent
Here is a look at some department functions, and how Trump said he might approach them.
11/19/2024 --dailybreeze
Publicly, Republican senators say they will give Gaetz the same due process that they give any other nominee. Most are loath to criticize him directly. But they are split on whether to demand access to the ethics report.
11/19/2024 --register_herald
Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the nation's capital. Now with Trump set to return to power, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum of a sweeping electoral win, local...
 
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