Democrats on the House oversight committee sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday demanding to know how the Supreme Court is enforcing ethical standards — and questioning whether the high court is even prepared to do so. “We write with alarm about the deepening ethics crisis at the Supreme Court of the … Read more
(NewsNation) — Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, was among the Republican House members voting in favor of holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress Wednesday. Garland has refused to turn over the audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating the classified documents discovered at a Biden office and … Read more
Democrats on the House oversight committee are planning to hold a discussion on Supreme Court ethics with expert panelists Tuesday as public trust in the institution continues to take hits. The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), will lead the discussion alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who chairs the … Read more
WASHINGTON — The confrontation between Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) at a House oversight committee hearing Thursday may have been inevitable. Since arriving in Congress in 2023, Crockett has been one of the committee’s most vocal Democrats. And Greene has been Greene, offering her trademark stream of inflammatory behavior, including a … Read more
Every member of Congress knows that their five minutes of speaking time at committee hearings are an opportunity to make a memorable C-SPAN clip, but few have exploited the medium like Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.). At House Oversight Committee meetings, the freshman congressman has ignored the custom of posing questions to witnesses and gone straight … Read more
WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) this week came up with a new excuse for why reporters keep writing he’s found “no evidence” incriminating President Joe Biden. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Comer told a Fox News radio host, is “working with the Deep State who’s working with the liberal mainstream media to try to … Read more
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Law enforcement is struggling to prosecute abusive, sexually explicit images of minors created by artificial intelligence (AI), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told fellow members at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing Tuesday. Laws against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) require “an actual photo, a real photograph, of a child, to be prosecuted,” Carl Szabo, vice … Read more
WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) quietly sent telecom giant AT&T a subpoena last week demanding more than a decade of phone records related to President Joe Biden’s son. The Mar. 6 subpoena, obtained by HuffPost, gave AT&T two weeks to hand over all records of user activity, including texts and call … Read more
Democrats on the House Oversight Committeed pressed SpaceX on Wednesday over allegations that Russia is using the company’s Starlink terminals in its war against Ukraine, “potentially in violation of U.S. sanctions and export controls.” In a letter to SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said … Read more
