Chris Brennan
Politics and Governing Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Politics and Governing Reporter at Clout
National columnist for @USAToday, covering people, power and politics in the 2024 election. Tell me a story: [email protected]
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4 days ago |
usatoday.com | Chris Brennan
Donald Trump has bragged every month since returning to the presidency in January that his administration has drastically curtailed illegal entry to our country at the southern border. He often claims – falsely, of course – to have set some kind of record there.
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4 days ago |
flipboard.com | Chris Brennan
1 day agoWhat to know about the Supreme Court’s midnight Alien Enemies Act orderCNN — Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences.
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1 week ago |
newschief.com | Chris Brennan
PHILADELPHIA — This city of more than 1.5 million people will vote in the May 20 election for district attorney, choosing in a Democratic primary between Larry Krasner, a progressive reformer and two-term incumbent who doesn't always play nice with the local establishment, and Pat Dugan, a more moderate former municipal court judge tight with the city's political power base. It shouldn't work this way. A primary election should not be the final word in a race like this.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Chris Brennan
PHILADELPHIA — This city of more than 1.5 million people will vote in the May 20 election for district attorney, choosing in a Democratic primary between Larry Krasner, a progressive reformer and two-term incumbent who doesn't always play nice with the local establishment, and Pat Dugan, a more moderate former municipal court judge tight with the city's political power base. It shouldn't work this way. A primary election should not be the final word in a race like this.
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Chris Brennan
It could be easy to mistake the so-called SAVE Act that passed the U.S. House April 10 as some sort of federal version of the voter ID laws on the books in several states. But the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act is so much worse than that. Voter ID laws vary in the 36 states that require people to show some sort of identification at polling places, with some more stringent and disenfranchising than others.
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The 2026 midterm elections are still nearly 19 months away. But those fights are already turning chippy. Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's PA-01 sets the scene early for the battles to come. My @USAToday column: https://t.co/DPXp1LdyLX
RT @joshtpm: Remember that DOGE has already lost the US Treasury more than $500 billion by gutting the IRS. That's the IRS's own estimate.…
