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The nation's latest mass shooting has rekindled the fire under Democrats to use their newly won majority to strengthen federal gun laws in the next Congress. The issue was off the table for eight years of Republican rule, as GOP leaders have sided with the powerful gun lobby against any new gun restrictions. But House Minority Leader MORE (D-Calif.), who's seeking to regain the Speaker's gavel, vowed to move quickly on gun reform next year, citing Wednesday night's shooting massacre at a California country music bar as the latest reason Congress should step in with ne

“Please issue a public statement that you will recuse yourself and remove yourself from any oversight of the 2018 election immediately or we will have no choice but to seek a formal emergency remedy from the courts,” reads a letter sent to Scott by the two groups, the League of Women Voters and Common Cause. The letter claims Scott “intentionally politicized governance of the elections” when his used his position to ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate possible

“Stacey Abrams’ antics are a disgrace to democracy and completely ignore the will of the people,” campaign communications director Ryan Mahoney said in a statement. “Georgia voters have spoken. It’s time for Abrams to listen and concede immediately.” “This is not how America works.

“Stacey Abrams’ antics are a disgrace to democracy and completely ignore the will of the people,” campaign communications director Ryan Mahoney said in a statement. “Georgia voters have spoken. It’s time for Abrams to listen and concede immediately.” “This is not how America works.

Below, Breitbart News has compiled eight “America First” candidates for Attorney General. Kris Kobach Currently, Kobach is serving the last couple of months as Kansas’s Secretary of State. Kobach previously served as an adviser to President Trump on immigration, and most notably wrote Arizona’s SB 1070 law that made it a state crime to be in the country as an illegal alien. Having fought the open borders lobby in the courts, Kobach is the most obvious choice to replace Sessions when it comes to suing the state of California for their sanctuary state law.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from his new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, whose past business ties and comments on the Russia investigation and other topics have drawn scrutiny. Trump elevated Whitaker to the post on Wednesday after forcing out Attorney General Jeff Sessions, installing a Republican Party loyalist to oversee the special counsel investigation into possible ties between Russia and the president’s 2016 campaign. Since then, Whitaker, who had been Sessions’ chief of staff, has faced pressure from Democrats to recuse himself from overseein

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama blasts President Donald Trump in her new book, writing how she reacted in shock the night she learned he would replace her husband in the Oval Office and tried to ‘‘block it all out.’’ She also denounces Trump’s ‘‘birther’’ campaign questioning her husband’s citizenship, calling it bigoted and dangerous, ‘‘deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks.’’ In her memoir ‘‘Becoming,’’ set to come out Tuesday, Obama writes openly about everything from growing up in Chicago to confronting racism in public life to her amazement at becoming the country’s first black

The revelations come ahead of her memoir ‘‘Becoming,’’ where she writes openly about growing up in Chicago, confronting racism in public life, and becoming the country’s first black first lady.  President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from his new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, whose comments on the Russia investigation have drawn scrutiny.  Border Patrol agents last month arrested 23,121 migrant family members, the highest one-month total on record.  No other state in the country saw such a dramatic shift in power in its capital as Maine.

The revelations come ahead of her memoir ‘‘Becoming,’’ where she writes openly about growing up in Chicago, confronting racism in public life, and becoming the country’s first black first lady.  President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from his new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, whose comments on the Russia investigation have drawn scrutiny.  Border Patrol agents last month arrested 23,121 migrant family members, the highest one-month total on record.  No other state in the country saw such a dramatic shift in power in its capital as Maine.

The revelations come ahead of her memoir ‘‘Becoming,’’ where she writes openly about growing up in Chicago, confronting racism in public life, and becoming the country’s first black first lady.  President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from his new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, whose comments on the Russia investigation have drawn scrutiny.  Border Patrol agents last month arrested 23,121 migrant family members, the highest one-month total on record.  No other state in the country saw such a dramatic shift in power in its capital as Maine.