The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would review a Texas law restricting minors’ access to internet pornography, one of a handful of cases it agreed to accept next termthat are focused on First Amendment rights; a Trump-era criminal justice law and the regulatory power of federal agencies. The court also declined to hear challenges […]Read More

It has been less than a week since President Biden walked out onto the stage of the first presidential debate in Atlanta and upended his political legacy. Biden’s performance Thursday reinforced the biggest concern voters have expressed about his candidacy: his age. He moved slowly, spoke softly and had trouble articulating his thoughts. More than […]Read More

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal attorney to Donald Trump, was disbarred Tuesday in New York over his false statements about the 2020 election. “The seriousness of respondent’s misconduct cannot be overstated,” a state appeals court said in a ruling, adding that Giuliani “baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s […]Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was dismissive of concerns about the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity when the subject came up in a Fox News interview on Monday. “There’s all sorts of hyperbole tonight and just these fantastical — these hypotheticals they have made up, future presidents are going to turn into assassins and […]Read More

As panic and confusion over President Biden’sfalteringdebate performance swept the ranks of Democratic lawmakers late last week, Sen. Joe Manchin III informed a few key allies that he would soon break with Biden in an interview on a Sunday news show, a high-profile defection that would underscore the president’s weakness. Democrats feared Manchin — a […]Read More

A growing number of Democrats on Tuesday began publicly questioning President Biden’s performance in last week’s debate, calling on him to withdraw from the race, and contemplating possible successors, as the fallout spread from what increasingly appears to be a pivotal moment in the 2024 campaign. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first sitting […]Read More

Former president Barack Obama has privately told allies who have reached out to him that President Biden’s already-tough path to reelection grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance on Thursday — a harsher assessment of the presidential race than his public comments, according to several people familiar with his remarks. Obama separately spoke directly […]Read More

Justice Department officials plan to pursue the criminal cases against Donald Trump past Election Day even if he wins, under the belief that department rules against charging or prosecuting a sitting president would not kick in until Inauguration Day in January,according to people familiar with the discussions. That approach may become more consequential given this […]Read More

Democrats were panicking. Donors were despondent. And some elected officials were privately wondering whether their leader should step aside. But in President Biden’s cosseted bubble over the past five days, his 90-minute debate stage meltdown Thursday night against former president Donald Trump was merely a “bad night,” with aides quickly retreating to what they hoped […]Read More

On Jan. 3, 2021, a group of Justice Department officials met in the Oval Office to resolve a critical dispute within President Donald Trump’s administration. William P. Barr had stepped down as attorney general two weeks before and Trump wasn’t happy with Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general. Trump was considering booting Rosen in favor […]Read More