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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy blasted Trump's Iran deal as the 'worst foreign policy blunder in decades,' saying 'Reagan is rolling over in his grave' over terms that let Iran rebuild its nuclear program.
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DHS has dropped its plan to convert a Social Circle, Georgia warehouse into a 10,000-person ICE detention center after a bipartisan coalition led by Sen. Raphael Warnock and local residents fought back.
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Senate Democrats introduced the Protect Our Polls Act, which would require congressional approval before any president could send federal troops or armed agents to polling places.
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Senators Markey, Blunt Rochester, and Schumer, with 16 colleagues, introduced a bill directing DHS to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status through April 2029, protecting more than 300,000 Haitians. The bill has been introduced, not passed.
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Rep. Steve Cohen filed six articles of impeachment against Chief Justice John Roberts over the presidential immunity ruling, gerrymandering, campaign finance, and recusal concerns - a near-certain-to-fail but pointed act of accountability.
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Rep. John Larson filed 13 articles of impeachment against President Trump over war powers, National Guard deployments, pardon abuse, and race-based deportations. Here's what they allege — and why they face no path in a GOP-controlled House.
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Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer and 34 colleagues, introduced the No Kings Act in 2024 to end presidential criminal immunity after the Supreme Court's Trump v. United States ruling. It never passed.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced an anti-corruption package that would bar a president from accepting payments from people they pardon or appoint. The bills have been introduced in the House, not passed into law.
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Ohio House Bill 938, the "No Free Advertising for Politicians Act," would make it a crime to put a sitting official's name or likeness on publicly funded signage. It has only been introduced and awaits its first committee hearing.
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Several Senate Republicans, including Bill Cassidy and Roger Wicker, are publicly criticizing Trump’s 14-point Iran framework, with one calling it a “tremendous foreign policy blunder.”
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Senate Democrats led by Elissa Slotkin introduced the Protect Our Polls Act, which would require congressional approval before a president could send troops or armed federal officers to polling places.
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Republican senators Cassidy, Cruz, Cotton and Wicker publicly broke with President Trump over his Iran framework, citing sanctions relief and a large reconstruction fund.
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