Things are getting dicey as we hurtle toward a potential government shutdown tomorrow night as time slips off the clock.  But Democrats are REALLY torn – as badly as I’ve ever seen any party torn – about what approach to take. On the one hand, they don’t want to shut down the government. They fear that will imperil already skittish federal workers. And it could lead to additional...

Federal judges in Maine said they were compelled by their code of ethics to recuse themselves from a case brought forth by Maine GOP state Rep. Laurel Libby. Libby, R-Bangor, is challenging her censure in the state legislature, which was issued in response to her opposition to transgender athletes competing in women’s high school sports. Judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, the state’s...

The attorneys general of 20 Democratic states, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, slapped the Trump administration with a lawsuit after the Department of Education (DoED) cut nearly half its workforce this week. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday against Secretary Linda McMahon, the Department of Education, and President Donald Trump, claims that the president does not have authority to dismantle the department and that cuts will...