Lost in the daily deluge of scandal and incompetence from the Trump administration was this little nugget from embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions: While talking to AM Hate Radio host Hugh Hewitt, Sessions said he might just be considering having an "outside counsel" ...read more
Among the plethora of inane and predictable reactions to President Obama's speech unveiling executive actions on gun regulation was a diamond-studded piece of dickery from Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in which he called stemming the tide of 30,000 annual deaths a ...read more
As day 150 of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch's wait for a vote to replace current AG Eric Holder began, it looked like political pressure and a procedural threat from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) might have sufficiently loosened the jar to ensure Lynch a ...read more
As of Thursday, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch has waited 149 days for confirmation, more than twice as long as the previous seven attorneys general combined. That delay has been the subject of increasingly intense frustration from President Obama and his administration, ...read more
Over the weekend, President Obama announced his nomination of New York U.S. Attorney New York Loretta Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder as the nation's top law enforcement official, and even though Lynch has been confirmed by the Senate twice before, Republicans have ...read more