Politics

The appeals court, acting in the shadow of Mr. Trump’s impeachment, has put the case on a fast track. After it rules, a Supreme Court appeal seems close to inevitable. The case may not be resolved in time to matter in the impeachment trial, but it may nonetheless yield a foundational ruling on the structure […]

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Almost exactly four years ago, Donald J. Trump touched down at an airport hangar here, delivered a donation to a group that provides service dogs to veterans and, before inviting a few kids to run around on his Boeing 757, criticized the wars in the Middle East that many local families had

Asked by the editors of a paper he reads religiously but often criticizes what he’s most likely to fare poorly at as president, Mr. Sanders initially responded, “talk to The New York Times,” drawing laughter. But then, with no prompting, he acknowledged: “I don’t tolerate bullshit terribly well.” Mr. Sanders conceded that he’s not “good

Since the Jan. 3 drone strike that killed Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most important general, the Trump administration has offered shifting rationales for the attack. Here are some of the administration’s evolving justifications. Jan. 3 The “decision to eliminate Soleimani” was “in response to imminent threats to American lives.” — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on

As Mr. Biden eventually acknowledged, that did not work. “It was a mistake to assume the president would use the authority we gave him properly,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 2005. But on the campaign trail this election cycle, he has suggested he opposed the war and Mr. Bush’s conduct from the

The Senate math is not in Mr. Schumer’s favor. With 47 senators caucusing with the Democrats (including two independents who routinely vote with them), he is still four shy of the 51 votes he would need to force subpoenas for witnesses and documents. While it appears that Ms. Collins and two other Republicans — Senators

It remains undetermined whether three of Mr. Trump’s closest allies among House Republicans — Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio, Doug Collins of Georgia and John Ratcliffe of Texas — will play a role. They had been expected to, at Mr. Trump’s urging, until the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, advised against it, according to people

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday injected fresh instability into final preparations for the Senate’s impeachment trial, suggesting that senators should dismiss the House’s charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against him outright rather than dignifying them with a full tribunal. That unexpected statement, arriving amid a flurry of tweets, not only appeared to put

SAN ANTONIO — Judge Judith Sheindlin does not tolerate breaches of civility. Certainly not in her televised courtroom, where she has presided as the sharp-tongued star of “Judge Judy” for near a quarter century. And not in American politics, either. But being stuck on the bench, even on a simulated courtroom set watched by nearly

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — A nearly yearlong run of good will between two of the leading progressives in the 2020 presidential race, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders, appears to be evaporating in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses. On Sunday, Ms. Warren said she was “disappointed” that Mr. Sanders’s campaign had been using a