Sherrilyn Ifill earned congressional backing for SCOTUS nod and served on Biden’s High Court reform commission Howard Law professor Sherrilyn Ifill, who was floated as a possible Supreme Court pick for President Joe Biden, called Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, an “eminently dangerous” “white supremacist.” “This is
Sharpton scandal ‘harms the credibility of the journalist, the news organization, and journalism overall,’ Society of Professional Journalists says Al Sharpton, Kamala Harris (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The financial entanglements between MSNBC host Al Sharpton and the Kamala Harris campaign, revealed this week by the Washington Free Beacon, are a “black eye” for the liberal network
Senate Democrats were “caught flat-footed” by Republican campaign ads targeting left-wing support for biological men’s participation in women’s sports, according to Axios. In the wake of Republicans’ election sweep, Senate Democrats held private “listening sessions” with outgoing Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D.) to reflect on their campaigns’ failures, Axios reported. In two separate meetings,
Republican Sen. Katie Britt (Ala.) is putting Columbia University, UCLA, and other schools on notice that the incoming GOP congressional majority plans to crack down on anti-Semitic demonstrations proliferating on college campuses. Britt wrote an open letter to Jewish students on Friday stating that the rising anti-Semitism at universities was not “acceptable” and that she
Column: Trump reminds the Beltway what MAGA means Donald Trump, Joe Biden (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s visit to Washington on Wednesday had all the hallmarks of his first term. There was the cable-news pageantry of Trump Force One’s arrival in and departure from D.C. There was a cordial and reassuring meeting in the Oval
‘A reasonable argument could be made that whoever produced these flyers are providing material support to a designated terrorist organization,’ expert says L: A demonstrator breaks the windows of a building at Columbia (Alex Kent/Getty Images) R: Pamphlet at Columbia advertising Samidoun A coalition of anti-Israel student groups at Columbia University distributed pamphlets just outside
MSNBC has yet to weigh in on Sharpton scandal amid growing backlash L: Al Sharpton R: MSNBC president Rashida Jones (Justin Sullivan, Jemal Countess/Getty Images) MSNBC president Rashida Jones maintains especially close ties with host Al Sharpton and his activist group, raising questions about her silence on donations Sharpton’s group received from Kamala Harris’s campaign