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Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) confirmed Wednesday that he wants the bill from anti-Trump Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) designed to protect special counsel Robert Mueller to be brought forward.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) argued President Donald Trump’s tweets saying that transgender people won’t be allowed to serve in the military appear to be the president being mean to a vulnerable group to

Democrats are depressed after the first Supreme Court decisions featuring newly-installed Justice Neil Gorsuch were released this week confirmed that he is every bit as conservative as Republicans had hoped at his nomination.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch “needed to convince me he would stand up to real threats to our democracy like dark money. Over and over again during his hearing,

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) accidentally called President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, whom he and Senate Democrats have taken strenuous efforts to block from the bench, “Justice Gorsuch” during a press conference that he, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held on Wednesday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reacted to the FBI announcing it is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia by saying, “you have the equivalent of an election robbery, and it would

During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) criticized the Roberts court for ignoring the principle of stare decisis shortly before criticizing rulings on the 2nd Amendment that ignored that “the

So a bunch of left-wing US Attorneys General have held a meeting in New York — presided over by discredited professional climate-alarmist Al Gore — to discuss how best to use the legal system to wipe out climate scepticism once and for

The US Department of Justice has been considering whether people should be prosecuted for the offense of climate change denial. “This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether

Sheldon Whitehouse, the preposterous Democrat senator for Rhode Island, has been preaching to his choir at HuffPo that the only way to deal with those pesky climate change deniers is to pursue them through the courts using RICO laws. Good luck

One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said that he hopes the DOJ files a lawsuit against the climate change “denial apparatus” in a Google hangout with the League of Conservation Voters streamed on May 21, 2015. Whitehouse, in response to a question

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse doesn’t want the Senate Judiciary Committee to talk about Eric Holder as it considers a nominee to replace him as Attorney General.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Former Sen. Scott Brown, who’s running an aggressive campaign against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), is attacking her over her support for an energy tax he says would cause energy rates to spike. “For New

The EPA is about to impose a new regulation that will reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants starting June 2 and will become permanent in 2015. The new regulation, according to Politico, is the “most dramatic anti-pollution regulation in

From J. Christian Adams in PJ Media: Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is now accusing the Keystone pipeline of being a cancer risk.  Her first point was that the pipeline “will bring 830,000 barrels of dirty tar sands oil into our nation every day.”  She then segued to

Climate change will lead to an orgy of killing, looting, rape and burglary, says a new report. Wow! Better tell John Brignell at Numberwatch.  In case you haven’t seen his site, it purports to provide “A complete list of all

From The Hill: Republicans will lose the White House in 2016 if they nominate a candidate who is a “climate denier,” predicts one Senate Democrat. Speaking on a call set up by Organizing for Action, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) laid

An amendment is moving through the Senate Judiciary Committee that would essentially allow the government to determine who is a journalist for purposes of legal protection of sources. For purposes of protecting a source, a “journalist” under law would be

By MICHELLE R. SMITHAssociated PressCRANSTON, R.I.Gov. Lincoln Chafee isn’t running for a second term, he said Wednesday in an announcement that surprised his political opponents and closest advisers alike and takes him out of what was expected to be a

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), advocates for the environmental lobby, met with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough last week so they could coordinate efforts with the Obama administration in pushing their environmentalist agenda.  The

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse May 20th, 2013 More than 95 percent of climate scientists are convinced that human carbon pollution is causing massive and unprecedented changes to our atmosphere and oceans. You want to go with the five percent,

On Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used the devastating Oklahoma tornado as an excuse to bash Republicans for denying global warming and implied Republicans were responsible for actually allowing the destructive natural disaster to occur.  “So, you may have a

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama said Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asked for and accepted the resignation of the acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Steven T. Miller. However, Miller’s  term as acting IRS Commissioner was up in a couple of

House Democrats released a “discussion draft” of carbon tax legislation Tuesday and requested feedback on whether pricing per ton of carbon should result in a $15, $25, or $35 tax, as well as whether the price per ton annual increase

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi told seven U.S. senators last week that the American Media is run by Jews and he is a victim of their control.  The seven senators, John McCain (R-AZ), Chris Coons (D-DE), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Lindsey Graham

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric.

Whether it’s the Sandy Hook massacre or Superstorm Sandy, progressives know how to use tragedies to manipulate public opinion and mobilize it behind a left-wing agenda. Environmental groups are using Superstorm Sandy as a weapon to force the public to

WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) —A Senate vote next week on the so-called Buffett Rule on taxing the wealthy opens a door to broader tax reform discussions, a White House spokesman said Monday. It also will mean senators’ position about how