ANALYSIS/OPINION: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the mob, each in their own way, last week increased the risk that we will face a fairly grave constitutional moment. Mrs. Pelosi, in an unscripted moment, with her usual charm, identified the president and his allies in Congress (one can only…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday President Trump’s “playbook” relies on voter suppression. “Don’t pay any attention to what the President is saying, because it is all designed to suppress the vote,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, told reporters. “He’s going to have law enforcement — that’s in their playbook.” “It’s in their playbook that they’ll…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. delivered a stark message to Wisconsin Democrats on Thursday about what role the key battleground state will have in the presidential election. “No pressure, it’s all riding on Wisconsin,” Pelosi told more than 100 Democrats during a virtual meeting…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that President Trump’s COVID-relief executive orders are based on questionable legal grounds and fall far short of the aid American people need. “It was unconstitutional slop,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “These are illusions.” “The kindest thing I can say is he doesn’t know what…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schummer accused White House negotiators of drawing a red line on a top figure for a comprehensive coronavirus relief package. The top Democrats said they offered a middle ground price tag between their $3.4 trillion proposal and the GOP’s $1 trillion. “Yesterday, I offered to…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…