Jennifer Bendery

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s dropping his controversial pick for U.S. attorney in D.C., Ed Martin. “We have somebody else that will be great,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I was disappointed. A lot of people were disappointed, but that’s the way it works sometimes.”It’s an early defeat for Trump, though Martin’s nomination was already looking like it was over. Sen.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON — Republicans may have just tanked President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters Tuesday that he informed the White House that “I wouldn’t support his nomination.” It only takes one Republican in this committee to sink a nominee, assuming all Democrats vote no, which in this case, they would have. Martin’s nomination appears dead.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has picked his first judicial nominee of his second term: Whitney Hermandorfer, a Tennessee attorney who has clerked for three of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices — including two of Trump’s nominees — and who progressive groups warn has an “extremist” record. In a social media post close to midnight on Thursday, Trump said he plans to nominate Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ryan Grenoble |Jennifer Bendery

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a new job title: interim national security adviser. President Donald Trump announced the development on social media Thursday after firing his previous national security adviser, Michael Waltz. Waltz’s ouster followed a bombshell report in The Atlantic about him inadvertently adding a reporter to a group chat to discuss a bombing campaign in Yemen. Trump said Waltz’s new role in his administration will be as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON – Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Thursday ripped his Republican colleagues for using a sneaky procedural maneuver to block his effort to force an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal, a third-party messaging app, for sharing classified war plans with intelligence officials, his wife, his brother and others.