Sarah Wire

May 5, 2024 | latimes.com | Sarah Wire

Over homemade tacos at a Capitol Hill row home, several of California’s members of Congress did something unusual last year: they gathered for a bipartisan, home-cooked meal where politics were not on the menu. The table full of Republicans and Democrats represented an opening salvo in a push by some of the state’s newest representatives to build collegiality and cross party work in a place that in recent years has supported neither.

Apr 30, 2024 | latimes.com | Mackenzie Mays |Sarah Wire

At a diner just off the freeway north of Sacramento, a mostly white crowd listened intently as it learned how to “save America” by leaning on the same laws that enshrined the rights of Black voters 60 years ago. Over mugs of coffee and plates of pot roast smothered in gravy, attendees in MAGA and tea party gear took notes about the landmark Voting Rights Act and studied the U.S. Constitution.

Apr 11, 2024 | latimes.com | Sarah Wire

WASHINGTON —  After a barrier-breaking career over more than a half-century that took her from being the first woman mayor of San Francisco to the longest-serving female Senator in U.S. history, California’s late Sen. Dianne Feinstein may be honored with a post office named for her. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla, who, along with California’s junior senator, this week proposed naming a San Francisco post office after Feinstein, said it is just “a first step” in commemorating her.

Apr 9, 2024 | latimes.com | Sarah Wire

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is expected to be pulled from the campaign trail for at least two months starting next week as he stands trial in New York, the first criminal prosecution of a former president in American history. Trump is accused of falsifying business records in an attempt to hide money paid to an adult film actor to prevent her from going public with claims that she and Trump had sex.

Apr 3, 2024 | latimes.com | Sarah Wire

Members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have warned America for three years to take former President Trump at his word. Now, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s major criminal trials face delays that could stall them past election day, his rhetoric is growing increasingly authoritarian — and some of those lawmakers find themselves following their own advice.