ICE zip-tied two Hancock High students in Diamondhead as their school bus pulled up. Mississippi's two senators got them out. Their own congressman — a former sheriff — said his office was monitoring the situation.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
Two months after a report estimated Entergy's residential customers had already paid $38 million toward Amazon's data centers, Hyde-Smith praised her state's protection of ratepayers — using her utility donor's own slogan.
Three rural hospital rescue bills in five months, from the senator who voted for the law taking billions out of rural health care. Twenty-four Mississippi rural hospitals are now rated vulnerable to closure.
Roger Wicker backed him. So did two Republican governors. One senator killed the nomination by refusing to hand in a slip of paper — using a procedure a Mississippi segregationist invented to keep civil rights judges off the bench.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Federal immigration agents have killed American citizens in the street. These Republicans took the money, wrote the checks, told agents to shoot back, and refused to say a word against it.
