Courts ruled at least four times that Gov. Sarah Sanders couldn't take control of Arkansas prisons away from the Board of Corrections. So she replaced the board members who sued her, and her new majority signed a deal declaring the laws constitutional. A judge threw it out.
With five days left in the fiscal year and the House gone until after the election, Trump announced he's cancelling nearly $1 billion Congress approved — mostly for refugees, unaccompanied children, migrant students and minority businesses. The GAO says this 'pocket rescission' is illegal. Even the Senate's top Republican appropriator called it a 'usurpation.'
When the president's son was Hunter Biden, Tom Emmer said nobody was above the law and a 'private citizen' was no excuse. When a Republican senator asked to look at a Putin-tied oligarch paying for Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding party, Emmer called it a hoax.
Two days after promising reporters access, Tiffany's campaign blocked Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Mary Spicuzza and David Clarey from a campaign event and called Spicuzza a 'liberal activist' — the same week she reported three billionaires had supplied about two-thirds of his campaign cash.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
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Susan Collins spent 2018 to 2020 pushing the Navy to hand tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to a defense contractor called Navatek.
On Sept. 15, without announcing it, ICE pulled everyone with a final deportation order out of the online system families and lawyers use to find detained people. Lawyers say it makes last-minute court challenges to deportations far harder.
ProPublica found Susan Collins' office pushed the Navy to hand Navatek millions while her campaign and super PAC took illegal money from its CEO. He later told the FBI she said, 'You've seen me deliver.' The FBI corruption squad that heard him was purged.
Asked about a Republican effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Rep. Derrick Van Orden told a reporter he would 'punch someone in the face' for talking about Hegseth — then mocked a Democratic staffer and former teacher who shared the tape.