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12 GOP Senators Join With Democrats to Reject Trump’s Emergency Declaration Trump will veto the resolution of disapproval, but his inability to keep Republican senators in line is a major embarrassment.
By Ed Kilgore
national emergency declaration
Feb. 26, 2019
Trump Could Face Major Embarrassment Over His Fake National Emergency The congressional resolution disapproving of the emergency looks like it might pass the Senate.
By Adam K. Raymond
The Democrats’ Irrational Love of the Filibuster Could Doom Their Agenda The Senate’s supermajority requirement for all legislation is a gift to conservatism. And progressives are promising to maintain it forever.
By Eric Levitz
government shutdown
Jan. 7, 2019
Democrats Say They’ll Shut Down the Senate Until It Reopens the Government Trump’s got his “national emergency” alternative, but Democrats could stop regular Senate business until the chamber deals with the shutdown.
By Ed Kilgore
Mitt Romney Rips Trump’s Character in New Op-ed Romney loves the tax cuts, but he hates Trump’s tweets.
By Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
Dec. 21, 2018
By Jonathan Chait
criminal justice
Dec. 13, 2018
Tom Cotton’s America Is Not a Free America The First Step Act’s most vocal opponent in the Senate has a bleak and all-too-familiar vision for what American criminal justice should look like.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
‘I Don’t Care’: GOP Senators Dismiss Allegations Against Trump “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president,” said Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.
By Adam K. Raymond
2018 midterms
Nov. 28, 2018
With One Final Democratic Victory, Midterms End All in all, it was a good year for donkeys, and a good start on their 2020 goals.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Defies Trump, Advances Bid to End U.S. Support for Saudis in Yemen In defiance of the White House, 63 senators voted to allow debate over a bill that would (finally) end U.S. backing for war crimes in Yemen.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Nov. 28, 2018
Cindy Hyde-Smith Joins a Rare Club: Women Elected to High Office in the South Mike Espy’s election would have been truly historic. But Cindy Hyde-Smith made some modest history of her own.
By Ed Kilgore
Black Mississippi Deserves Better Cindy Hyde-Smith winked glibly at Mississippi’s brutal violence toward black people. Then, she got elected to Congress.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2018 midterms
Nov. 7, 2018
Republicans Hold the Senate: All the Key Results Republicans increased their Senate majority by three net seats, with one race – which is leaning towards them – unresolved.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Nov. 7, 2018
Why Trump’s Culture War Lost the Suburbs — But Held the Senate The president’s singular strength in rural areas will help Republicans consolidate power over the least majoritarian parts of our government.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Nov. 4, 2018
Where All the Key Races Stand, 2 Days Before the Midterms While Democrats are favored to win the House, the size of the blue wave remains unclear — and an unusual number of races remain too close to call.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 17, 2018
McConnell Thinks Talking About Repealing Obamacare Helps the GOP in the Midterms If Republicans make Senate gains and hang onto the House, it’s remotely possible. That’s apparently what the GOP thinks its base wants to hear.
By Ed Kilgore
brett kavanaugh
Oct. 8, 2018
Poll: Majority of Americans Say Kavanaugh Shouldn’t Be on the Supreme Court And yet, Kavanaugh is still more popular than Donald Trump or the GOP agenda, and his confirmation might have helped Republicans politically.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Oct. 8, 2018
The North Dakota Senate Race Is Becoming a Referendum on #MeToo GOP candidate Kevin Cramer has suggested that attempted rape is no big deal, and Christine Blasey Ford isn’t “tough.” He will probably win.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Oct. 8, 2018
This New Poll of Battleground House Districts Is Great News for Democrats Team Blue’s prospects of taking the House are looking up — even as its chances of winning the Senate have gone into sharp decline.
By Eric Levitz
the kavanaugh hearings
Oct. 5, 2018
Senate Cuts Off Debate on Kavanaugh, Making His Confirmation All But Certain In the end, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Joe Manchin are giving Kavanaugh the votes he needed.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 1, 2018
Why New Jersey’s Menendez Could Be Democrats’ Midterm Achilles’ Heel New Jersey is a very blue state, but Bob Menendez is in some peril against a deep-pocketed opponent after a long corruption trial.
By Ed Kilgore
interesting times
Sept. 28, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Everyone Lost at the Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings The process was broken. Justice was ill served. And democracy is worse off for all of it.
By Andrew Sullivan
the national interest
Sept. 26, 2018
Senator Dick Durbin Wishes Trump Could Appoint Even More Judges Democrats believe things would be better if they had allowed Republicans to keep more judicial vacancies for Trump to fill.
By Jonathan Chait
2018 midterms
Sept. 21, 2018
Beto O’Rourke’s Race Against Ted Cruz Is Officially a ‘Toss-up’ After speaking to operatives in both parties, the Cook Political Report decided that the Texas Senate race is now a jump ball.
By Eric Levitz
Cory Booker Wants to Give You a Hug, and Be Your Next President He’s ready to run the most optimistic, earnest, emotionally present campaign in history — and is betting that’s what Trump’s America is ready for.
By Jonathan Van Meter
2018 midterms
Sept. 17, 2018
Poll: Democrats Lead Senate Races in Arizona and Tennessee If Democrats can pull off an upset in the Volunteer State, their chances of taking the Senate improve dramatically.
By Eric Levitz
susan collins
Sept. 10, 2018
Liberal Group Crowdfunds $875,000 for Susan Collins’s Next Challenger But progressives have promised to cancel those donations — if Collins votes against Brett Kavanugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
By Eric Levitz
u.s. senate
Aug. 27, 2018
By Eric Levitz
john mccain
Aug. 27, 2018
Federal Building Named After Segregationist Might Be Renamed After McCain It’s time to remove the name of the genteel racist Richard Russell from the Senate’s oldest office building. Giving it McCain’s is a good pretext.
By Ed Kilgore
the supremes
Aug. 22, 2018
By Adam K. Raymond
Most ‘Trump Ten’ Democratic Senators Doing Better Than Trump in Their States The president isn’t nearly as strong as he was in 2016 in many states where Democratic senators are running for reelection this year.
By Ed Kilgore
How to Interpret 2018 Polls Without Fooling Yourself The first rule: “Don’t believe the hype.” The other rules are almost as simple.
By Ed Kilgore
Washington Lobbyists Anticipating Democratic House Denizens of the swamp are hiring Democrats to shore up their relationships with the potential bosses of the next Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
Anthony Kennedy Retires From Supreme Court Get ready for the mother of all confirmation battles.
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
Californians to Vote on Initiative to Divide Their State Into 3 It’s not popular at present, and would have to overcome many obstacles, but the idea of cutting California down to size won’t go away.
By Ed Kilgore
Washington May Love Mitch McConnell, But His Constituents Don’t Yes, the Senate Majority Leader is wily and resourceful. But his Achilles’ heel is that he cannot take reelection in Kentucky for granted.
By Ed Kilgore
West Virginia Republicans Lie About Each Other’s Imaginary Hillary Ties Hillary Clinton’s value as a devil figure in the GOP is so powerful that two WV Senate candidates are just making up stuff about each other and HRC.
By Ed Kilgore
What the Midterms Would Look Like If Clinton Had Won The silver lining of Trump’s presidential win for Democrats is that their party is facing a good, not a potentially disastrous, midterm election.
By Ed Kilgore
A Bill to Protect Mueller From Trump Took Its First Step Toward Passage But McConnell says he’s not going to let the bill come to the floor for a vote, since he doesn’t think Trump will fire Mueller anyway.
By Adam K. Raymond
Tammy Duckworth Wants to Allow Babies in the Senate This would be a historic win for families with working moms.
By Naomi Elias
Why Conservatives Care More About Keeping the Senate Than the House The power to confirm federal judges is the GOP’s most valuable resource.
By Ed Kilgore
Phil Bredesen and Democrats’ Long-Shot Effort to Win Back the Senate A new poll in Tennessee shows a Democrat with a solid lead in a bid to flip a GOP Senate seat.
By Ed Kilgore
Mitt Romney Announces U.S. Senate Run With Small Swipes at Trump “On Utah’s Capitol Hill, people treat one another with respect,” Romney says, an obvious reference to you-know-who.
By Adam K. Raymond
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
Feds Drop Corruption Case Against Senator Menendez The perpetually embattled Senate Democrat now has a clear path to reelection in November, particularly if Republicans look elsewhere.
By Ed Kilgore
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