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David Roth

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) (L) and Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) display a sign accusing former Special Counsel Jack Smith of meeting with Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on September 29, 2026. Everyone looks pretty pleased with themselves.

Politics

Jack Smith Did Not Conspire Against Donald Trump While Watching Steph Curry Score 60 Points In An Overtime Loss To The Hawks

Albert Burneko

Is It Mitch McConnell Or Your Own Sense Of Possibility That Has Been Dead For Weeks?

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Setting Aside The Incorrect Claim About Herd Immunity

Kelsey McKinney

I Love That I Finally Have A Senator To Annoy


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Diana Moskovitz

Senators Week

Let Me FOIA The Senate (And The House)

Lauren Theisen

Tom Wilson Lightly Disciplined For Breaching Decorum, Much Like When The U.S. Senate Censured Francophobic Massachusetts Federalist Timothy Pickering

34 Times I Would Have Liked To Call My Senator

Maitreyi Anantharaman

Democratic members of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), walk down the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol for a news conference after a boycott of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court on October 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Senate Takes Decisive Bipartisan Action In Congratulating Lakers, Dodgers

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