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Chuck Grassley
presidential line of succession
Nov. 17, 2021
Californians Move Toward Lock on Presidential Succession If Feinstein becomes the next Senate president pro tem, she joins VP Harris and a California House Speaker in the chain of presidential succession.
By Ed Kilgore
The Midterms Could Give the Senate a MAGA Makeover Retirements and primary challenges could decimate the Senate’s Establishment Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Jan. 25, 2021
Republican Senator Rob Portman to Retire in 2022 The fight for control of the Senate in 2022 is already underway. The key factor could be the kind of Republican divisions evident in Portman’s Ohio.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 14, 2021
Are There Enough Senate Republican Votes to Convict Trump? With the MAGA base still strong and plenty of excuses for Republicans to say no, conviction faces steep odds.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Nov. 17, 2020
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley Tests Positive for COVID Grassley, the second oldest senator and the lawmaker third in line for the presidency, said he was “feeling good.”
By Matt Stieb
2020 elections
Oct. 16, 2020
Joni Ernst Bombs on Must-Know Soybean Question in Debate Republican Ernst became famous for her 2014 ads bragging about her experience castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. She seems to have lost touch.
By Ed Kilgore
donald trump
July 9, 2020
Joint Chiefs Chairman Defies Trump on Bases Named After Traitors General Mark Milley is fine with renaming bases to remove names of those who committed an “act of treason” in a bad cause.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Picked the Wrong Hostage in Battle Over Confederate-Named Military Bases Senator Chuck Grassley predicts that Republicans will override Trump if he vetoes the defense bill to block the renaming of military bases.
By Ed Kilgore
No Plans in Coronavirus-Infected White House for President Pelosi If they’re going to court disaster by eschewing health precautions, Trump and Pence need to plan for what they’ll do if it strikes.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Mar. 18, 2020
What If Trump Tried to Cancel the November Election? Trump can’t really cancel a constitutionally mandated general election, but could make voting difficult and trigger a court fight and a fresh crisis.
By Ed Kilgore
Grassley Bumping Graham As Judiciary Committee Chairman It’s got nothing to do with impeachment, and everything to do with seniority.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Have Tolerated Steve King’s Racism for a Long Time Until very recently, his fellow Republicans were happy to express solidarity with King despite his notorious nativism.
By Ed Kilgore
criminal justice reform
Dec. 19, 2018
Senate Finally Passes Bipartisan Criminal-Justice Reform Bill The question remains: Is this modest bill the beginning or the end of criminal-justice reform efforts in Congress?
By Ed Kilgore
criminal justice reform
Nov. 20, 2018
Will Mitch McConnell Stand Tall for the Lock-Em-All-Up Racists of His Party? Trump could probably get his son-in-law’s prison-/sentencing-reform compromise through the Senate with a call to McConnell — but he may not even try.
By Ed Kilgore
musical chairs
Nov. 16, 2018
Lindsey Graham to Become Senate Judiciary Chairman and Trump Point Man The formerly independent Graham will now be the point man for Trump in a very sensitive position.
By Ed Kilgore
criminal justice reform
Nov. 14, 2018
Trump Finally Supports Kushner’s Compromise Criminal-Justice Reform Bill It’s not a done deal just yet, but Jared Kushner did get his father-in-law across the line after more than two years of delays.
By Ed Kilgore
allegations
Oct. 25, 2018
Michael Avenatti Under Suspicion for Claims Made Against Brett Kavanaugh An NBC News report details discrepancies between statements Avenatti released from clients about Kavanaugh, and what those women told reporters.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Grassley Suggests Women Can’t Handle Judiciary Committee He then claimed in his walk back that women outwork men in the Senate and should dominate the Supreme Court.
By Chas Danner
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 28, 2018
Flake Forces Delay in Senate Floor Vote on Kavanaugh; Trump Approves FBI Probe Flake supported Kavanaugh’s confirmation but successfully pushed for a one-week delay in the Senate vote pending an FBI investigation.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 27, 2018
GOP: We Need More Evidence to Judge Ford’s Claims. Please Don’t Give Us Any. Senate Republicans’ arguments for why the FBI does not need to investigate allegations against Kavanaugh collapse under scrutiny.
By Eric Levitz
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 27, 2018
Chuck Grassley’s Handling of the Ford Hearing Is an Ongoing Disaster In the high drama of this moment, the 85-year-old farmer is overmatched.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 27, 2018
Senate Dems Deftly Highlighted GOP Insensitivity Toward Christine Blasey Ford Feinstein set the hearing’s tone by noting the historic mishandling of sexual-assault claims, while GOP senators looked feckless and uncomfortable.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 27, 2018
By Gabriella Paiella
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 26, 2018
GOP Sticking With Kavanaugh Game Plan Despite New Allegations It’s going to be awkward at tomorrow’s hearing for Republicans to pretend Christine Blasey Ford is Kavanaugh’s only accuser.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 25, 2018
GOP Hires Arizona Sex Crimes Prosecutor to Question Kavanaugh and Ford Unlike the 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she’s a woman.
By Adam K. Raymond
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 24, 2018
The Right Closes Ranks Behind Kavanaugh Conservative passion for the Supreme Court nominee isn’t rational any more. It’s holy war.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 24, 2018
Kavanaugh Goes to War As New Sexual-Assault Allegations Emerge The guarded judge of the earlier Senate hearings is gone, as Kavanaugh identifies with his angry defenders.
By Ed Kilgore
garrett ventry
Sept. 22, 2018
Aide Who Guided Kavanaugh Strategy Quits Over Sexual Harassment Allegation Garrett Ventry also worked for the PR firm that has been trying to undermine Christine Ford’s credibility.
By Benjamin Hart
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 21, 2018
Grassley Closes, then Reopens Talks with Ford Over Testimony Looks like Republicans have decided they’ve got the votes to confirm Kavanaugh and will no longer try to look sympathetic to the judge’s accuser.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 20, 2018
Time Is Running Out for Christine Blasey Ford Republicans have given her 24 hours to decide whether she will testify — a move her supporters have criticized.
By Madeleine Aggeler
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 4, 2018
By Benjamin Hart
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 4, 2018
Democrats Come Out With Guns Blazing at Kavanaugh Hearing Maybe Senate Democrats will roll over eventually, but they aren’t going quietly along with the Kavanaugh confirmation initially.
By Ed Kilgore
john mccain
Aug. 28, 2018
GOPers Balk at Honoring John McCain instead of Segregationist Democrat It’s not Richard B. Russell’s fellow Democrats but Republicans who are hesitant about renaming a Senate building to honor McCain.
By Ed Kilgore
criminal justice reform
Aug. 23, 2018
Trump Overrules Kushner, Puts Hold on Criminal-Justice Reform Bill In the end, Trump listened to crime demagogues like Tom Cotton instead of Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley — or his own son-in-law.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Jared Kushner Talk Trump Into a Sentencing Reform Push? The prospects for a bipartisan sentencing reform bill are looking up now that the president seems supportive and Sessions has been sidelined.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP Is Setting Up a Narrow Window for the Kavanaugh Confirmation Chuck Grassley says he hopes to wrap it all up by the beginning of October, and his party had better hope he’s not off by much.
By Ed Kilgore
Bracing for a Supreme Court Retirement Bombshell At the end of the term, the focus is on Kennedy, whose retirement could ignite the Senate races. But Thomas’s exit might spark a battle in the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
Iowa Could Be 2018’s Bellwether for Democrats The state that lurched heavily red in 2014 and 2016 could lurch back, and that would be significant given Iowa’s Trump-friendly demographics.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Kushner’s Patchy Prison-Reform Bill Survive the Senate? A House-passed bill backed by the Trump administration at the behest of Jared Kushner could succumb to bipartisan crossfire in the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
Grassley to Aging Supreme Court Justices: Retire Now The Republican senator says that if any justices are thinking of retiring in the near future, they should do so before this year’s midterm elections.
By Eric Levitz
4 GOP Senators Call for Second Special Counsel to Investigate FBI Republicans still suspect the FBI misused the Steele dossier, despite the dearth of evidence for that charge in Devin Nunes’s infamous memo.
By Eric Levitz
Senate Votes Down Every Immigration Proposal Trump’s own proposal and a bipartisan compromise that he angrily opposed both went down in the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Trump Make or Break an Immigration Deal? The odds of any legislation making it through the abattoir of both houses of Congress is limited at best — unless Trump gives Republicans cover.
By Ed Kilgore
Don Jr.’s Senate Testimony on Trump Tower Meeting Will Be Made Public The Senate Judiciary Committee is pulling back the curtain on its investigation into Russian election meddling.
By Adam K. Raymond
3 Bombshell Claims in the Leaked Testimony on Trump and Russia Democrats just released testimony on the Christopher Steele dossier that Republicans don’t want you to see.
By Eric Levitz
Grassley: Non-Wealthy People Would Waste Tax Cuts on ‘Booze or Women or Movies’ It’s an implicit part of conservative economic theory that investors are the only people who matter. But most GOP pols don’t say it out loud.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Pulls Out the Stops to Smooth Path for Trump’s Judicial Nominees. GOP used the “blue slip” tradition that let senators veto home-state judges to thwart Obama nominations. Now they’re denying Democrats the same power.
By Ed Kilgore
When Two Warring Parties Share a State’s U.S. Senate Seats The number of “split” Senate delegations is declining steadily, and with it the phenomenon of voters deliberately choosing a senator from each party.
By Ed Kilgore
Blue-Slip Tradition, Democrats’ Best Weapon Against Right-Wing Judges, in Peril The century-long tradition of requiring approval of judicial nominees by home-state senators could soon be scrapped under pressure from conservatives.
By Ed Kilgore
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