• By Ned Parker, John Shiffman, Mike Spector, Peter Eisler and Linda So DALLAS, Nov 8 (Reuters) – As Republicans faced a nationwide drubbing in Tuesday’s midterm elections, supporters streamed out of a Dallas ballroom where they’d hoped to toast a win for US Senate candidate Ken Paxton, a favorite of President Donald Trump. In the […]
  • By Mike Scarcella and Daniel Wiessner WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Republicans lost state attorney general races to Democrats in key states in the November 3 midterm elections, with potential consequences for lawsuits related to abortion, transgender rights and other issues that the outgoing Republicans championed.  Democrats will take over state attorney general offices in Georgia, […]
  • By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Democrats flipped attorney general offices in five Republican-leaning states in the midterm elections, dealing a significant blow to the conservative legal movement and erecting a new line of resistance against President Donald Trump’s agenda. The victories in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa and Kansas threaten to disrupt conservative legal […]
  • By Jarrett Renshaw, David Morgan and Andy Sullivan WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s decision to elevate loyalist Stephen Miller to run his White House indicates that he plans to ramp up confrontation in his final two years in office and block outside political and economic pressures, Trump administration officials and […]
  • By Steve Gorman and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – A judge said on Saturday she would appoint a former top federal prosecutor to investigate whether Trump administration lawyers committed ethical violations in their defense of President Donald Trump’s plans to close and renovate a historic public golf course in Washington. US District Judge […]