Mychael Schnell

When Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis first withheld their support from attorney general nominee Todd Blanche, they had two major demands: formally kill the president’s proposed “anti-weaponization” fund and at least narrow the scope of the pr... See more

Todd Blanche’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s permanent attorney general is on hold. And it could stay that way until September — or potentially even longer. Late Wednesday night, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed Thursday’s vote to adva... See more

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was already racing toward the August recess with an overflowing legislative agenda: a Russia sanctions bill, a stopgap funding measure, some progress on the GOP’s third reconciliation bill, and a slate of nominee... See more

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan referred former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department on Wednesday for a potential criminal investigation, accusing Smith of intentionally making false statements to Congress last year. In his l... See more

Republicans are one step closer to passing their latest reconciliation bill, after the House adopted a budget laying out the spending guardrails for their legislation. But the vote only cleared the first — and arguably easiest — hurdle. The hard part is s... See more