The US Senate prepared to take its most consequential step in years with the procedural vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick. Democrats made last-minute pleas against changing rules to ram through the nomination of Neil Gorsuch. But Republicans are keen to get Gorsuch elevated to the nation’s highest court to fill the … Read more
Democratic US Senator Jeff Merkley delivered one of the longer speeches in Senate history by holding the floor for more than 15 hours into Wednesday to oppose President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Senate Republican leaders have scheduled a crucial procedural vote on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch for Thursday. Most Democrats have pledged to … Read more
The Senate has silenced Elizabeth Warren. And by doing so, majority Republicans just handed the liberal firebrand a megaphone — further elevating President Donald Trump’s fiercest and most prominent critic in the Senate and turning her into a Democratic hero. The rebuke of Warren came after the Massachusetts Democrat read a letter written 30 years … Read more