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American politician & attorney (born 1955)
Seven House Democrats broke with most of their party to vote for the spending bill — a measure that keeps roughly flat and includes about $10 billion for -and-customs-enforcement">Immigration and Cust...
Available reporting shows members of Congress and some officials have publicly urged or suggested that President Trump resign at various times — especially during crises such as the post‑Jan. 6 fallou...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not show any current House or Senate leaders openly calling for President Trump to resign in 2025; instead, the material documents calls for action in ...
— , , , , , and — joined to pass the amid outrage over ; their public explanations ranged from explicitly citing the need to avert a to invoking incremental s included in the measure, while many membe...
Four —Reps. (), (), () and ()—voted with to pass the on April 10, 2025; reporting consistently identifies those four members as the defectors in that House vote . Some earlier coverage of a 2024 House...
Seven Democrats crossed party lines to vote for the appropriations bill; reporting identifies who they were but contains only limited, specific public explanations for that choice, with Representative...
Donald Trump issued roughly 237 pardons and commutations during his first presidency (2017–2021), including 144 pardons and about 93 commutations depending on counting method cited in Justice Departme...
AIPAC’s PAC and affiliated groups became major players in 2022 and exploded in 2023–24: AIPAC reports delivering more than $17.5 million to candidates in 2022 (its first direct giving year) and says i...
Eight Senate Democrats voted to advance the funding bill that ended the 2025 shutdown, giving the measure the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster; major outlets list those senators (including T...
Seven Democrats — , , , , and — broke with most of their caucus to back the funding bill; their public rationales, as reported, emphasize avoiding a and preserving funding for specific DHS functions l...
—principally and —have spent millions on campaign contributions and lobbying aimed at immigration and detention policy, creating clear financial ties to politicians who shape detention policy; those t...
The reporting provided does not include ’s memo calling for ’s removal, nor does it list any current or former Republican officials or editorial boards named in such a memo (limitation of available so...
Democratic negotiators say they wrested limited but concrete constraints and into the spending bill: new oversight mechanisms over DHS spending, language intended to curb the secretary’s ability to un...
A review of the supplied reporting finds no clear, contemporaneous citation naming any sitting House Republican who publicly demanded that President Trump “step down” or resign and giving a date for s...
Congressional actors did, in individual and partisan terms, urge President Trump to resign: multiple members of the House publicly said he should step down or face removal, and at least one Republican...
As of early 2026, several high‑profile s-2026">corruption prosecutions tied—directly or indirectly—to activity during ’s second term have ended in convictions that were later commuted or pardoned, and...
Two different journalistic datasets point to different leaders in : one analysis identifies Democratic Reps. and as the top recipients with $21,000 apiece from // combined (/ compilation) , while othe...
has used the aggressively across both terms, issuing individual pardons and mass clemencies that include well-known political allies, former officials, donors’ associates, and hundreds linked to the ....
No is identified in the provided reporting as having publicly signaled openness to adopting -style, proof-of-citizenship requirements; the coverage instead documents House defections and widespread De...
A small set of high-profile U.S. political figures have active federal indictments—most notably former President Donald Trump and Hunter Biden—while hundreds of other federal, state and local official...