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MORE did not find evidence of collusion in the 2016 election. Trump seemed almost giddy as he spoke to Republican senators in the Mansfield Room just off the Senate floor, according to GOP lawmakers who said Trump claimed the Mueller report gave him a "clean bill of health" after two years of speculation that it could lead to impeachment. The president thanked Senate Republicans for sticking by his side for almost "two years" of the special counsel's investigation and Democrats "dragging our party and the presidency through the mud on a hoax," according to Sen.

The House failed Tuesday to override the first veto of MORE's tenure, a vote led by Democrats seeking to uphold a measure unwinding the president's national emergency declaration at the southern border. The chamber voted 248-181 to override the veto, falling short of the roughly 290 votes, or two-thirds majority, needed.

The Senate on Tuesday blocked the Green New Deal, a progressive climate change resolution that Republicans view as prime fodder heading into the 2020 presidential election. The Senate voted 0-57 on taking up the resolution, with 43 Democrats voting present. The measure was widely expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the procedural hurdle. Most Democrats were expected to vote present, a move that allowed them to avoid taking a formal position. Sens.

The Trump administration’s surprise call for the courts to strike down ObamaCare upended Capitol Hill on Tuesday, putting Republicans in a bind while giving Democrats new talking points on one of their favorite issues for the 2020 elections. GOP lawmakers for the most part were reluctant to even talk about the Justice Department’s decision to call for all of ObamaCare to be struck down in a court filing. If the courts agree with the Justice Department, it would dramatically change the way health care is now delivered in the country, and insurance companies were among those criticizing the admi

Graham supports red flag laws, and in early March, he told CNN the confiscatory laws represent a place Republicans and Democrats can “come together” on gun control. Ironically, Sen.

This all turns on the legal doctrine of severability. Much of the time when a statute is unconstitutional it is actually only partially unconstitutional. Typically a court will strike down that part of the law, but sever it from the rest of the statute and uphold the remainder. Pundits who have never studied or litigated severability will surely show up on television now posing as experts, and criticizing DOJ’s position.

The House failed to override Trump’s national emergency, 248-181, with strong Democrat support for the bill and few Republican defectors. According to reports, some of the House Republicans voting for the national emergency resolution include Reps.

Forty-three Democrats voted “present” and three Democrats — Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Doug Jones (D-AL) — voted against the resolution. Sen. Angus King (I-ME) also voted with Republicans against the measure. Many Democrats — including Sen.

JOAN VENNOCHI If Democrats don’t give up on it, they will be aiding and abetting Trump’s reelection.  The fact that Robert Mueller was unable to rule out the possibility that the president of the United States may have criminally obstructed justice is no mere side issue, no minor footnote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats pressed the Justice Department Monday to provide the full report from special counsel Robert Mueller even as Republicans gleefully called for them to ‘‘move on’’ from the Russia investigation.