Biden did not speak to reporters upon arriving for his first official trip to South America after reporters harangued White ...

The president-elect wants to keep a number of seats in the judiciary unfilled, despite his push to stack the bench after he ...

Progressives in Congress are urging party leaders to use their two remaining months in power to erect barriers to Trump’s ...

A White House spokesperson on Monday pushed back on President-elect Trump’s demand that the Democratic Senate stop confirming ...

Biden, therefore, has appointed 25% of the entire federal judiciary despite the more cumbersome and divisive confirmation ...

Senate Democrats will look to press forward with confirming more of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks during the lame-duck ...

Biden himself addressed his dwindling time in government during remarks delivered in the White House Rose Garden Thursday ...

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Government funding, disaster relief and energy permitting could all be complicated by year-end partisan angling.

Democrats are scrambling to put obstacles in place for Trump and his Republicans' assumed trifecta control of the White House, Senate, and House.

“Regardless of party, the American people expect their leaders ... Bates noted that the then-GOP-led Senate confirmed 55 nominee during the lame-duck period of Trump’s first term after ...