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Sep 26, 2020
He reveres custom and recognizes the courts' essential role in shaping a policy agenda. Those dual instincts have perhaps never been in greater conflict as they are in this Supreme Court fight.
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Sep 26, 2020
He reveres Senate custom and recognizes the courts' essential role in shaping a policy agenda. Those dual instincts have perhaps never been in greater conflict.
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Sep 25, 2020
The department told a Finnish reporter that she would be honored for her work to uncover Russian disinformation campaigns. It reversed itself — and tried to cover it up — after realizing she was also critical of President Trump.
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Sep 25, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state in Statuary Hall in a ceremony choreographed to allow the women of Congress to honor her legacy and the example she set.
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Sep 25, 2020
Mitch McConnell has a tricky needle to thread.
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Sep 25, 2020
The president's nomination of Judge Barrett, a favorite of conservatives, to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will kick off a furious and unprecedented scramble to confirm her in the Senate before Election Day.
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Sep 25, 2020
Democratic and Republican women stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol as the coffin of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left the building.
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Sep 25, 2020
From the courts to Congress, we might need fewer embalming norms and more room for victories and defeat.
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Sep 25, 2020
His pick is likely to galvanize Democrats while bringing him few new voters, and could hurt some Republican Senate incumbents. But the president needs to steer the debate away from the virus.
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Sep 25, 2020
What do we do when everything is coming apart?
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Sep 24, 2020
President Trump declined for a second day to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the election, while Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, implicitly rebuffed him, promising an "orderly transition."
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Sep 24, 2020
The comments undercut the president's claims about mail-in ballots.
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Sep 24, 2020
In the wake of the last recession, government spending dried up, leading to a slow and stilted recovery. Policymakers warn against letting it happen again.
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Sep 24, 2020
In the wake of the last recession, government spending dried up, dragging out the recovery. Policymakers warn against letting that happen again.
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Sep 23, 2020
So much talent, if you really enjoy exasperation.
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Sep 23, 2020
Sure, most Senate Republicans will approve President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. But they seem to have already done so, without a name.
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Sep 23, 2020
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, defended his record at a Senate confirmation hearing and flatly denied he suppressed intelligence that could have embarrassed President Trump.
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Sep 23, 2020
While Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was alive, the prospect of an epic political and cultural battle was averted. But her death has brought a particular whiplash of sorrow and anger to Washington.
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Sep 23, 2020
Asked by reporters about two issues of deep importance to Democrats, the party's nominee was circumspect. The Biden campaign later released a fuller statement about Ms. Taylor.
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Sep 23, 2020
Aiming to energize Democratic voters over the looming confirmation battle to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Joe Biden laid out the high stakes.
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Sep 23, 2020
President Trump and his allies have made criticism of major tech platforms a regular talking point as he campaigns for re-election.
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Sep 23, 2020
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and other top U.S. health officials testified before a Senate panel on the prospect of a vaccine, and warned that social distancing measures would still have to continue.
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Sep 23, 2020
The report delivered on Wednesday appeared to be little more than a rehashing of unproven allegations that echoed a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Sep 22, 2020
Even as he presses ahead, some Republicans wonder whether it would be better to hold a confirmation vote before the election or start hearings but leave the final vote until afterward.
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Sep 22, 2020
The swift rally behind President Trump's push to fill a Supreme Court seat before the election reflects his lock on the Republican Party.
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Sep 22, 2020
A step-by-step guide to the nomination process to come, and how Republicans might look to speed it up.
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Sep 22, 2020
Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, accused Republicans of hypocrisy for attempting to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat in an election year.
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Sep 22, 2020
A reader writes that the "pretzel-like contortions to agree to quickly filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat are appalling." Also: It's about the makeup; wildfires and climate.
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Sep 22, 2020
Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, said on Tuesday he supports holding a vote to fill the vacancy of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 21, 2020
Senators Charles Grassley and Cory Gardner gave the president the votes he needs, but for the Senate to confirm his choice before the Nov. 3 election will still be a challenge.
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Sep 21, 2020
Senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz changed their positions on election year Supreme Court nominations. Here's what they are saying now.
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Sep 21, 2020
From Alaska to Maine to the Carolinas, Democratic strategists working on Senate campaigns described a spontaneous outpouring of donations the likes of which they had never seen. A Republican surge is expected as well.
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Sep 21, 2020
The Supreme Court vacancy has only injected more chaos into the election. There are opportunities and perils for both parties.
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Sep 21, 2020
Senator Lindsey Graham said he would refuse to confirm a Republican's Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year. Now he is rushing to deliver President Trump's third justice.
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Sep 21, 2020
¿Qué escenarios enfrentan las campañas de Trump y Biden al abrirse una vacante en la Corte Suprema a dos meses de las elecciones?
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Sep 21, 2020
Here's why Lindsey Graham is wrong.
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Sep 21, 2020
Here's how they can apply maximum pressure, brand the process as the illegitimate farce it is and lay the groundwork for desperately needed reform.
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Sep 21, 2020
President Trump wants a vote on his next Supreme Court nominee "without delay": This is your morning tip sheet.
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Sep 21, 2020
Chutzpah doesn't even begin to cover it.
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Sep 20, 2020
The president's determination to confirm a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election set lawmakers on a collision course as Congress deals with other major issues.
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Sep 20, 2020
Republicans see benefits for candidates struggling in conservative states, but Democrats say the vacancy sharpens their health care message and underscores Republican fealty to Trump.
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Sep 20, 2020
The battle over the Supreme Court brings back a volatile issue with political risks for both sides, even as it energizes parts of their bases.
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Sep 20, 2020
There's no escape from juristocracy except through political conflict.
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Sep 20, 2020
As tributes to Justice Ginsburg continued, Democrats argued that the fight to replace her was about health care. Republicans, who refused to consider a nominee before the last election, tried to fend off charges of hypocrisy.
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Sep 20, 2020
In emotional displays, thousands honored Justice Ginsburg and vowed to protect her legacy. President Trump said the nominee "will be a woman," and pressed to fill the seat "without delay."
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Sep 20, 2020
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the second Republican senator to say the Senate should not consider a nominee before the presidential election.
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Sep 20, 2020
Lawmakers spar over the process to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court as possible nominees start to come into view and mourners continue to grieve a giant of the law.
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Sep 20, 2020
*The survey erred in listing the Green Party, but it's still clear that Daines and Bullock are in a tight contest.
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Sep 19, 2020
Social conservatives and evangelical groups sprang into action after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, encouraging a speedy confirmation and rallying support for embattled Senate Republicans.
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Sep 19, 2020
The fight over the confirmation of Judge Garland in 2016 set the tone for an even more brutal battle over who should succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 19, 2020
Republicans want to push forward. Democrats are seething. A bitterly divided nation gets more so as a Supreme Court nomination fight looms.
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Sep 19, 2020
Protesters rallied outside the home of Senator Mitch McConnell, after he said he would move forward with President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, reversing his 2016 position.
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Sep 19, 2020
The political jockeying intensified on Saturday about what the Senate would do to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Sep 19, 2020
Republicans hold a narrow majority in the Senate, meaning they can only afford to lose a few votes in their push to confirm a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here are the potential swing votes.
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Sep 19, 2020
Justice Ginsburg's death on Friday night plunged Washington into what is certain to be a fierce clash as liberals seek to stop President Trump and the Republican-led Senate from confirming a replacement before Inauguration Day.
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Sep 19, 2020
The rules and partisan breakdown of the Senate make it possible for Republicans to swiftly confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Here's how.
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Sep 19, 2020
President Trump has vowed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg "without delay." Here is who might fill the seat.
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Sep 19, 2020
After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that President Trump's right-wing coalition would be more motivated by a confirmation fight than the alliance of liberals and moderates supportive of Mr. Biden would be.
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Sep 19, 2020
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday left an opening on the Supreme Court 46 days before Election Day.
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Sep 19, 2020
If Republicans give Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat to some Federalist Society fanatic, Democrats should pack the court.
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Sep 19, 2020
In the rearview mirror, the victories of a trailblazing feminist. On the road ahead, the threat of an entrenched and powerful minority.
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Sep 18, 2020
But she also knew something about the unreliability of happy endings.
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Sep 18, 2020
The majority leader pledged that President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg would receive a Senate vote, despite his 2016 move to block President Obama's nominee in the waning months of his term.
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Sep 18, 2020
Democrats warn Republicans to follow the precedent they set in 2016, when they refused to consider President Barack Obama's choice for the court on the grounds that it was an election year.
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Sep 18, 2020
A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine's Senate race.
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Sep 17, 2020
House and Senate Democrats said they would continue to fight for a stimulus package as the death toll in the United States from coronavirus neared 200,000.
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Sep 17, 2020
Democrats rolled out sprawling legislation that proposes substantial new funding over a decade in a bid to reinvest in the nation's economy and challenge Beijing.
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Sep 17, 2020
Trump's former director of national intelligence on how to firmly and unambiguously reassure all Americans that their votes will be counted.
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Sep 16, 2020
A public scolding of the C.D.C. chief was only the latest but perhaps the starkest instance when the president has rejected not just the policy advice of his public health officials but the facts and information that they provided.
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Sep 16, 2020
Next time maybe they'll bring back the Whigs.
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Sep 16, 2020
Listing potential justices may distort how we see the judiciary and how it behaves. Joe Biden should stick to "no names."
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Sep 15, 2020
Ms. McBride, who would be the first openly transgender person to serve in any state's senate, won a primary for a safely Democratic seat in Delaware.
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Sep 15, 2020
The announcement came as concern grew among rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties over the prospect of returning home to face voters without having enacted another recovery package.
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Sep 13, 2020
In a bad week for deals, a new aid bill fizzled in Congress and Tiffany's sale fell apart.
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Sep 12, 2020
His effort to stop the census count early, in the middle of a pandemic, is in line with his campaign of exclusion.
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Sep 12, 2020
The bids of two congressional candidates are shaping up as crucial tests of whether a centrist label can overcome resistance to Democrats in a conservative-leaning state.
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Sep 10, 2020
A show vote in the Senate reflected a continuing partisan divide that appears increasingly likely to scuttle any recovery package to address the toll of the pandemic before the November election.
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Sep 10, 2020
Senate Republicans failed to advance their substantially scaled-back stimulus plan amid opposition by Democrats who called the measure inadequate.
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Sep 09, 2020
Dr. Francis S. Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, who testified before senators along with Surgeon General Jerome Adams, said a vaccine wouldn't be made available unless it was safe.
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Sep 09, 2020
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, emphasized to senators that coronavirus vaccine development and distribution would be determined based on science and not politics.
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Sep 09, 2020
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won't stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides a solution.
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Sep 08, 2020
The economic recovery measure Republicans presented on Tuesday is a fraction of the size of their original offer and was immediately dismissed by Democrats as inadequate.
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Sep 08, 2020
Coronavirus ads are one thing, but Democrats are also bringing back the messaging that worked so well for them in 2018.
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Sep 08, 2020
As voters cast ballots today, the Democratic governor's race and the Republican Senate contest may help preview the parties' future in the presidential swing state.
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Sep 08, 2020
The victories by Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, reinforced the state's status as a battleground in November.
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Sep 06, 2020
As a United States senator, he spoke of transforming China through trade. As a presidential candidate two decades later, he denounces it as a "dictatorship."
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Sep 04, 2020
There are lessons here for Joe Biden.
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Sep 03, 2020
The package being pushed by the Trump White House — which could shift the military balance in the Middle East — includes an electronic warfare plane, the EA-18G Growler.
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Sep 02, 2020
Election experts said that Tuesday's primary offered a mix of smart policies and harsh deadlines, and that the state benefited from not having a highly charged political atmosphere.
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Sep 02, 2020
The Iowa senator's comments echoed a false claim, spread by President Trump over the weekend, that deaths from Covid-19 have been inflated.
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Sep 02, 2020
Members of Congress questioned whether the racial benchmarks used to settle dementia claims were consistent with discriminatory economic practices like redlining.
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Sep 01, 2020
The result was the first loss by a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election and demonstrated the progressive energy that is reshaping the Democratic Party.
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Sep 01, 2020
"If the leader comments, I'll be sure to pass it along," said a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. As of Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing to pass along.
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Sep 01, 2020
The Treasury secretary's House testimony, combined with renewed stimulus discussions among Republicans, highlighted divisions over how big an economic package should be.
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Sep 01, 2020
New York City cannot recover without a robust transit system, and the country cannot rebound without New York.
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Sep 01, 2020
Senator Edward J. Markey is facing off against Joseph P. Kennedy III, while the powerful Representative Richard E. Neal is confronting a challenge from the young mayor Alex Morse.
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Aug 31, 2020
Edward Markey, 74, entered Congress before Joseph Kennedy III was born. But in their Senate race he has harnessed the energy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the ascendant left, much to Mr. Kennedy's frustration.
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Aug 30, 2020
The elimination of in-person election security briefings to Congress could leave the public with a diminished understanding of the threats facing the election as it enters a critical phase.
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Aug 29, 2020
Lawmakers in both parties worry the move will block their ability to question and test intelligence assessments when they are crucial to ensuring that foreign powers do not undermine election results.
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Aug 28, 2020
The House Foreign Affairs Committee cited Mike Pompeo's defiance of subpoenas related to the State Department's compliance with Senate Republicans' investigation targeting the Bidens.
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