Phillip Kolb

Pentagon spokesman Joel Valdez, Office of the Secretary of War - Public Affairs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez responded to a Washington Post report on the Defense Department designating its press office as a classified space and banning journalists from accessing the press office “to meet with the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions.” Valdez confirmed that “the Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated...

Justice Samuel Alito, photo: JoshEllie1234, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons U.S. Representative Mike Levin (D-CA) is criticizing conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for not recusing himself from cases involving President Trump’s Treasury Department, where it was recently revealed Alito’s son, Philip Alito, has been working as “a political appointee and attorney.” Levin wrote: “There is no world in which this is okay.” He added of Alito: “His son’s employment was hidden so...

President Donald Trump (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian), The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who lost his bid for re-election in a divisive GOP primary runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, published a cryptic X post on Friday, recounting the “old, but apt fable” about the scorpion and the frog.