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FOX 24 US This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Tuesday, voters in Kansas will decide whether to make a dramatic change to the process for filling vacancies on the Kansas Supreme Court. For the last 68 years, under state law, a nine-member bipartisan commission has assembled lists of three potential nominees for the governor to choose from. The commission consists of both lawyers and nonlawyers, and it is far more transparent than most systems in place for selecting high court judges: Its interviews of aspiring justices, for…

FOX 24 US President Donald Trump went off on a long, strange tangent where repeatedly expressed revulsion at the state of “blue cities” during an event in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon. “What do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy, dirty,” Trump said, adding, “Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty.” Trump went on to specify that he didn’t “want to mention any specific city.” “It’s really all of them,” he said.  Trump’s attack on the homes of a large segment…

FOX 24 US The bipartisan House Ethics Committee on Monday recommended that Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) be censured for his behavior towards two young women on his staff. As documented in a report and accompanying appendix, Edwards lavished the staffers with gifts including “guns,” sent romantic text messages and relentlessly sought to spend time alone with them. Edwards has been in the House since 2023, and is married. The committee emphasized that it found no evidence that Edwards committed sexual assault or explicitly propositioned the women for sex. Edwards failed “to adhere to the spirit of rules prohibiting sexual harassment…

FOX 24 US With the prospect of another government shutdown looming, the Senate Appropriations Committee released the text of a continuing resolution (CR) on Sunday that would keep the federal government funded until Dec. 11 and punt the government funding negotiations until after the midterms.  In that stopgap bill, Democrats and a couple of Republicans included a significant provision that would ban, for now, the Trump White House and its Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from finalizing a grantmaking rule change it proposed in May.  The proposal came as OMB has made a practice of illegally pausing and terminating…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th. Meet Mel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s second election, voting for legislation to boost immigration enforcement could have seemed like a safe choice to some Democrats, who tied Donald Trump’s second presidential victory to a rejection of their party’s handling of immigration.  Forty-six Democrats broke with their party to support legislation named after the murdered Georgia college student Laken Riley. Now, for some, that vote is a potential liability, as primary opponents say…

FOX 24 US A new report from Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) details shocking allegations about the conditions inside an ICE detention facility in Texas. The report, which was published on Friday, was based on interviews Senate staff conducted with “approximately 20 family units and approximately 40 women detained in the adult detention unit” at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, it said. In a statement released along with the report, Durbin described the findings as part of “an ongoing investigation into medical and mental health care” in immigration detention facilities. He also called for the…

FOX 24 US The right-wing media machine is salivating over its newest anti-trans storyline, served up by Sophie Cunningham, a guard on the WNBA’s Indiana Fever.  Cunningham, long nicknamed “MAGA barbie” by W fans, has 3 million followers on TikTok and a predilection for reposting content starkly to the right of the famously progressive, activist league (she says her politics are “very much in the middle”). She hasn’t disavowed her adoption as a poster child by Republican officials, saying after the Trump White House used a meme of her taunting another player earlier this month: “I think everyone around the…

FOX 24 US The increasingly acrimonious Senate primary between Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and public health official Abdul El-Sayed draws to a close next week, and with it, the biggest battle yet of the moderates versus progressives proxy war. It’s a perfect microcosm of the debate roiling the Democratic Party. Stevens, a moderate four-term congresswoman who flipped a previously red seat in 2018, would have once played as the obvious pick for a purple state. El-Sayed, whose only electoral experience is his 2018 loss to now Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) and who espouses a lefty platform endorsed by Congress’ most…

FOX 24 US Trump’s new Federal Reserve Board Chair Kevin Warsh took two missteps in two opposite directions during and after yesterday’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) rate decision. And it wasn’t necessarily the board’s choice to hold interest rates steady — a decision that was mostly expected given current economic conditions — that most rankled markets and economists. Rather, it was both what Warsh said, and also what he didn’t say, that put a diverse set of central bank stakeholders on alert. When the FOMC on Wednesday issued its second rate decision since Warsh began leading the agency in…

FOX 24 US Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Last week, a coalition of officials from 25 Democratic-led states and Washington D.C. filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arguing that the administration is coercing states into complying with new unlawful election changes by withholding billions of dollars in disaster relief funding and homeland security grants if the states do not bend to President Trump’s demands around election administration.  Specifically, the lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is coercing the states into adopting a number of new election procedures that…