Collins says the Justice Department has become 'increasingly political.' She voted to confirm Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general in March 2025 — and she announced her no vote hours after the two Republicans with real leverage cut their deal and let him through committee.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
On the first day of the 2025 session, Minnesota's top House Republican was handed a temporary one-seat majority by a court ruling — and used it to elect herself Speaker in a chamber that had no legal power to do anything. The Minnesota Supreme Court threw all of it out.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
McCormick revived his STOP the SWAMP Act after Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth. The Supreme Court settled in 1968 that you can't fire a public employee for refusing to waive that right — and McCormick's own record on answering questions is not good.
Ogles says he's filing articles of impeachment against Judge Allison Burroughs for 'defying' the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruling he cites specifically left open the exact kind of claim she ruled on. His spokesman's own words: she's trying to 'subvert the will of the President.'
Senate Judiciary staff interviewed 20 family units and 40 women held at the Dilley, Texas facility. They found worms in food, coloring books passed off as school, and guards scolded for being 'too nice.' DHS gave them two hours inside.
