Author: Stephanie Moffat

Senator McCaskill Will Vote No On Gorsuch, Ensures Filibuster With courageous vote, Senator McCaskill ensures that Neil Gorsuch will need to surmount 60 votes.   Senator Claire McCaskill announced on Friday that she will stand with fellowDemocrats and filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination. McCaskill’s vote ensures that Gorsuch will need to overcome a 60-vote margin McCaskill released a statement on Friday saying Gorsuch displays a “stunning lack of humanity.” “I cannot support Judge Gorsuch because a study of his opinions reveal a rigid ideology that always puts the little guy under the boot of corporations,” she wrote. The announcement from McCaskill also...

Obama Admin Was So Worried About Russia Cover-Up They Made Secret List Of Documents To Protect Them The Obama Administration made a secret list of documents relating to Russia probe and handed it to the Senate Intel Committee According to a new report by NBC News, Obama administration officials were so worried about a potential cover-up by the Trump administration in the Russia scandal that outgoing members of the administration took steps to protect documents and evidence related to the investigation. The report notes that the outgoing Obama officials “created a list of document serial numbers to give to...

Pelosi On Nunes: ‘I’ve Never Seen Behavior This Bizarre’ House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an appearance on the Today Show, called Devin Nunes’s behavior very bizarre. “I’ve never seen behavior this bizarre on the part of the chairman,” Pelosi said. “We really have to take some steps back, and hope that in the administration there are some adults someplace who can say this is not fair to the American people,” Pelosi continued. Pelosi also had things to say about Donald Trump: “I just wonder what the Russians have politically, personally or financially on President Trump because this is about...

Pence, Senate Republicans Just Voted To Help Defund Planned Parenthood Lost in the chaos of Thursday’s news cycle was the story that Senate Republicans, with the help of Mike Pence, voted to do away with another Obama-era rule. This time the Obama rule was meant to protect family planning and health organizations like Planned Parenthood from states like Texas who attempt to withhold federal funding if the organization performs abortions. Republicans needed a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence to provide the 51st vote. Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted with the Democrats against the bill which is why...

Seth Meyers Perfectly Sums Up The Devin Nunes-Trump-Russia Scandal Seth Meyers took on the Nunes-Trump-Russia scandal in his “A Closer Look” segment Thursday night. Meyers opened by saying, “Hanging over everything Trump does is the ongoing Russia investigation, and in the House, the investigation is lead by the Republican chairman of the intelligence committee Devin Nunes, who has basically done everything he can to delay or interfere with his own investigation—raising the question of whether he is investigating Trump, or working for Trump.” Meyers then played a clip of Republican Congressman Ted Yoho, who on Thursday morning said in...