A federal judge presiding over the case for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting suspect delayed the start of the trial on Monday. Both parties and the court agreed to toll the speedy trial clock by 45 days, meaning the countdown timer within which federal prosecutors must bring Cole Allen to trial is paused. […]
Tensions boiled over among House Democrats Sunday after Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s proposed an amendment to nix $3 billion in military aid to Israel. During a […]
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) was mocked online Monday after he told Newsmax that the housing bill, which aims to increase home ownership and home supply for Americans, left him "spooked." Fine was speaking to the conservative news outlet as the bill was expected to be on President Donald Trump's desk. It's unclear whether the president will sign the bipartisan bill, which he declined to sign last week, saying he would withhold his signature until Republicans passed his elections legislation, the SAVE America Act."My issue was if Elizabeth Warren thinks a bill is great, then it probably isn't," Fine said. "The enthusiasm Democrats had for this bill got me spooked. And I didn't come to Washington to work with Democrats. I came to Washington to beat them."Social media users responded to Fine's comments."This is the Republican Party in a nutshell. Even when a bill is good, they won't support it because it'd mean working with Democrats—and their lunatic base would be furious about it," writer and podcaster Hemant Mehta wrote on X."Perfect encapsulation of how government is broken. Lawmaker votes against something simply because the other side was enthusiastic about it. Did he even read it? Instead of being 'spooked,' why not read it and decide the merits for yourself? Nope. Instead you govern off vibes," radio and television host Rob Guerrera wrote on X."This is insane. To them it’s just a matter of thwarting any Democrat supported plan, not helping their constituents," Holly Gaye, political commentator and marketing director, wrote on Bluesky."Can he read?" Guha Krishnamurthi, professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, wrote on Bluesky.This is the Republican Party in a nutshell. Even when a bill is good, they won't support it because it'd mean working with Democrats—and their lunatic base would be furious about it. https://t.co/SyOwDXbH6x— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) June 29, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team says the demands being placed on him for his yearslong corruption case are comparable to Israel’s treatment of a Nazi war criminal. Defense attorney Amit Hadad, who is representing the prime minister as he continues to navigate a corruption trial that began in 2019, said at the Jerusalem […]
Mamdani, 34, said it's a turning point in the Democratic Party with rank-and-file members opposing -- rather than supporting -- Israel in Middle East conflicts.
A Republican caller's live argument that citizenship should be limited to white people drew an instant rebuttal from a Democratic woman who blamed President Donald Trump for riling up white supremacists.During Monday's Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, Jim, a North Dakota man calling on the Republican line, invoked America's first citizenship law to make his case. Victoria, a Connecticut woman on the Democrats' line, called it "disgusting" — and said it was the president's fault.The 1790 Naturalization Act limited citizenship to "free white persons" — a restriction that lasted more than 160 years."The very first naturalization laws that they put in place in 1790 said you had to be a free white person of good character to become a citizen," Jim argued."They had no intention of flooding this nation with millions of people from the third world," he continued. "They never would have allowed this to happen, open borders. And I think they'd be disappointed when they looked at those inner cities and things right now.""Whoever builds the clubhouse decides who the members are going to be... And in 1790, the census said that we were 99% white Anglo, and we were that way all the way through the 1960s. It's only in the last 40 years of Democrats flooding this country. We see all the mess."Victoria directed her response at Echevarria, a Latino host, asking how he felt hearing Jim's whites-only diatribe about America on its 250th birthday."Pedro. As a person of color, I wonder how you feel with that previous caller and how he defined America 250 years later," she asked but the host didn't answer."It's disgusting!" the caller exclaimed. "I'm disgusted at this country. I can also remember 1976 and how that whole year it seemed like we were in celebration mode. That's not how we are today. And why is that? Because we have a white supremacist in office who is riling up all the other white supremacists like that North Dakota caller you just had."The Supreme Court has since gutted the Voting Rights Act through a series of decisions, most recently in April 2026."Fifty years ago, we were on the heels of civil rights legislation that is now being repealed," Victoria concluded. "There were also African American people in this country in 1790. They were in enslavement."
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be forced, again, to navigate a “legislative minefield” this week due to President Donald Trump’s controversial agenda, a challenge that risks leaving the entire chamber “paralyzed for a second week in a row” and sparking a GOP "disaster,” Punchbowl News reported Monday.At the heart of the difficulties facing House Republicans is Trump’s controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, which has passed in the House multiple times but continues to stall in the Senate. House lawmakers are hoping to advance the annual defense spending bill this week before a July 4 recess, but one MAGA lawmaker is threatening to block all floor proceedings unless the SAVE Act is attached to the defense spending bill, an amendment that’s considered a non-starter for Democrats and would almost surely tank the bill.That lawmaker is Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who’s already submitted an amendment to the defense spending bill to attach the SAVE Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, something experts have described as a form of voter suppression.“If Luna’s amendment is ruled out of order, the Florida Republican told us she’ll vote against the rule and continue her blockade on floor action, likely rendering the House paralyzed for a second week in a row,” Punchbowl News’ report reads.“Johnson and top House Republicans are hopeful that Luna will drop her insistence on the language after Trump posted on Truth Social last week that the GOP members should stop messing around with rules votes. It’s true that Luna has close ties to the Florida crew in the White House. But Trump has less sway than ever. And his advice on legislating is oftentimes ignored.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo that the House of Representatives would be returning to Washington, D.C., to continue “good work” on […]
