Author: Stephanie Moffat

Schumer: Democrats Will Filibuster Trump Supreme Court Pick Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Thursday that he will oppose Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and that he will urge other Democrats to do the same. Senator Schumer said that Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch and force Republicans to overcome a 60 vote threshold. “He will have to earn 60 votes for confirmation. My vote will be no, and I urge my colleagues to do the same,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “If this nominee cannot earn 60 votes, a bar met by each of President Obama’s nominees and George Bush’s last...

Trump Approval Rating Dropping Among Republicans, Whites, Men Multiple polls have already found that Donald Trump has record low approval ratings for a new president. But a new poll released Wednesday found that Trump is losing support among key groups that had previously been strong supporters including Republicans, whites and men. The new Quinnipiac University poll found that Donald Trump has a job approval rating of just 37 percent. And 56 percent of respondents disapprove of the job the president is doing. That is a 4 point drop from the same poll from two weeks prior when Trump’s approval rating...

FBI Has Evidence Of Collusion Between Trump Team and Russia: Report The has evidence of collusion between Donald Trump associates and the Russian operatives to coordinate the release of damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to a CNN report. “The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings, according to those U.S. officials,” CNN said in its report. A law enforcement official told CNN that “people connected to the campaign were in contact and it appeared they were giving the thumbs up to release information when it was...

Republican Congressman Just Revealed Multiple FISA Warrants On Trump Team House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes raced to the White House on Wednesday to brief Trump on “incidental” surveillance that occurred during the presidential transition period on the Trump and his team. Nunes was trying to help vindicate the president on his claim that President Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped. However, it appears that Nunes also just revealed the existence of multiple FISA surveillance warrants on the Trump team. Meaning that intelligence officials had sufficient probable cause to convince a judge to issue a warrant. Here is the thing about FISA warrants, they...

Joe Biden Returns To D.C. To Rally Democrats In Support Of Obamacare Former Vice President Joe Biden made his first big public appearance on Wednesday leading a rally of Democrats in Washington D.C. to keep fighting to protect Obamacare. Biden appeared on the Capitol steps alongside Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Polosi at a rally marking the seventh anniversary of Obamacare’s signing. Biden’s visit to D.C. also comes one day before Republicans are set to vote on their Obamacare replacement bill which the Congressional Budget Office found will cause 24 million people to lose their insurance. “You heard eloquent statements...