Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed into law a suite of bills Friday aimed at weakening his incoming successor, Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers (D).
“There’s a lot of hype and hysteria, particularly in the national media, implying this is a power shift,” Walker, who has less than a month left in office, said Friday before signing the legislation. “It’s not.”
Among other things, the package gives the legislature control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. boa...
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Robert Mueller just got some hilarious news from the worst judge in Washington
Judge Richard Leon, a senior U.S. District Judge who sits on the District Court for the District of Columbia, is the judge you want when what you want is to own the libs. Yet, in an order handed down Wednesday, Leon suggested that even he has limited patience for that merry band of misfits and cranks that orbit Donald Trump.
For those of you who may not be familiar with this jurist, Leon handed down what may the the most aggressive anti-birth control decision of the Obama years, hol...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the only 29-year-old Democrat who was just elected to Congress
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) isn’t the only 29-year-old who was part of Democrats’ historic “blue wave” in last month’s midterms.
Her future House colleague Abby Finkenauer (D-IA) — who recently unseated two-term Rep. Rod Blum (R-IA) in Cedar Rapids’ 1st congressional district — is only nine months older, but she’s just as relatable.
If you aren’t already feeling old, let’s just get it all out of ...
WATCH: SCOTUS deals blow to two states’ attempts to cut Planned Parenthood funding
The Supreme Court today dealt a blow to two states' attempts to hamstring Planned Parenthood clinics by disqualifying them from public Medicaid funds.
SCOTUS deals blow to two states’ attempts to cut Planned Parenthood funding
The Supreme Court today dealt a blow to two states' attempts to hamstring Planned Parenthood clinics by disqualifying them from public Medicaid funds.
The Supreme Court just gave us its first view of how it will handle abortion in the Kavanaugh era
The Supreme Court handed down a surprising order on Monday, announcing it will not hear a pair of cases asking, among other things, how much power conservative states have to defund Planned Parenthood. The order is surprising because, as Justice Clarence Thomas notes in a dissent joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, the two cases meet the ordinary criteria the Supreme Court uses to determine which cases it should hear.
“One of this Court’s primary functions is to ...
Trump floats one of the architects of the 2013 shutdown as his new chief of staff
Donald Trump announced on Saturday that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will resign at the end of the year. So far, the search for anyone willing to manage a chaotic White House and a goonish, know-nothing president is not going well.
NEW: A source close to Mulvaney tells me he is no longer interested in COS job, Mnuchin and Lighthizer sending out same signals…. list of potential replacements for Kelly shrinking by the hour.
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The most screwed-up employee perk in America (and the man who just might fix it)
The last time Atul Gawande started a company, he named it after a Greek myth.
Ariadne Labs, based in Boston, Massachusetts—where Gawande also works as a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard—has been trying since 2012 to innovate in an area that has historically resisted innovat...
Questions raised over Republican’s campaign debt in North Carolina election scandal
Controversy surrounding election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th district increased this weekend as questions surfaced about campaign debts owed by Mark Harris, the Republican initially declared the winner in the race.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, the Harris campaign currently owes $34,310 to a political consultant employed by the Red Dome Group.
The money is owed for “Reimbursement Payment for Bladen Absentee” and “Reimburseme...
What a governor, insurer regulator, and consumer advocate want Congress to do about Obamacare
Congress won’t be able to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after the midterm elections handed Democrats control of the House of Representatives — but that doesn’t mean lawmakers are done tinkering with the 2010 health care overhaul law.
Democrats ran and won on health care and the new House majority is expected to make strengthening the ACA a top priority next year. For some lawmakers, this means passing measures to further stabilize the marketplace...