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By David Edwards Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday that the United States does not need...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Pat Toomey on Wednesday became the latest Republican senator to say he’ll meet with President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, but…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, challenging Republicans to drop their adamant refusal…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Years of Republican hardline politics and divisive rhetoric have spawned Donald Trump and the “crackup” of the GOP, President Barack Obama said…

President Obama Rejects GOP call to Let The President Elect Choose                      Scalia’s Successor    …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Saturday night he would seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a year when a church massacre and catastrophic flooding put her in the spotlight, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In what would be a nightmare scenario for the GOP, presidential candidate Ben Carson threatened Friday to leave the Republican Party amid…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch won confirmation to serve as attorney general Thursday from a Senate that forced her to wait more than…

*The happy ending of Republicans working nicely with President Barack Obama is something Rachel Maddow isn’t subscribing to. The MSNBC host weighed in on what to expect following the Republicans taking control of the House and Senate on Friday, saying that the GOP’s post election press conference on Wednesday was a “hint” at the future may […]