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Sen. Bernie Sanders says Biden should ‘very seriously’ consider pre-emptive pardons

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday described President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to jail members of the House Jan. 6 Committee as “an outrageous statement” and said President Joe Biden should consider pre-emptive pardons for committee members. “This is what authoritarianism is all about. It’s what dictatorship is all about,” Sanders said. Asked on NBC News’ […]

Biden on track to appoint more federal judges of color than any other president

As President Joe Biden makes a final push to confirm judicial nominees before his term in office ends, he is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him.  On Monday, the Senate confirmed Biden’s judicial nominee for the Northern District of Georgia, Tiffany Johnson, making her the 40th […]

Biden announce news $500 million aid package to Ukraine

The Biden administration announced a new $500 million military aid package to Ukraine Thursday, weeks before President-elect Trump takes office.  “The United States is providing another significant package of urgently needed weapons and equipment to our Ukrainian partners as they defend against Russia’s ongoing attacks,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. The […]

Biden admin launches national strategy to combat Islamophobia

The Biden administration on Thursday announced it is launching a national strategy to combat Islamophobia.  The move, which the administration described as the first-ever Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate, comes a little more than a year after Hamas’ unprovoked attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023, which was followed by spikes in antisemitic protests […]

House passes bipartisan bill adding new judges that Biden has vowed to veto

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill backed by the federal judiciary that would create dozens of new judgeships despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to veto it. The legislation has already passed the Senate with bipartisan support and was considered to be uncontroversial — until President-elect Donald Trump won the […]

Informant accused of feeding FBI bogus Biden information pleads guilty to 4 counts

Alexander Smirnov has reached a plea agreement with the office of special counsel David Weiss, agreeing to plead guilty on several counts. The plea agreement notes that Smirnov is consenting to “Count Two of the indictment in United States v. Alexander Smirnov … which charges defendant with causing the creation of a false and fictitious […]

Biden about-face on pardoning son Hunter unpopular with Americans, poll finds

President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after previously vowing he would not give his son a pass has the approval of only 20% of Americans, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found about half of adults disapprove of the pardon, which came after […]