A North Carolina senator is holding up Mississippi’s nominations for federal judgeships and U.S. attorneys because he wants ...

The U.S. Senate on Sunday appeared poised to move forward with a measure aimed at reopening the federal government and ending ...

Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis is preventing President Donald Trump's four judicial and U.S. attorney nominees in Mississippi from advancing in order to pressure a key senator to help an ...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has kept President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees in Mississippi from advancing as he seeks to ...

The filibuster, a long-standing Senate rule, allows a single senator to block most legislation unless 60 senators vote to cut ...

Senate Republicans have rejected legislation that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to launch an ...

In August, Trump nominated Robert Chamberlin and James Maxwell, both justices on the Mississippi Supreme Court, to vacant federal judgeships in northern Mississippi. Trump in July nominated Scott ...

Dan Bishop will at least temporarily lead the prosecutor’s office in North Carolina’s Middle District after an appointment by ...

Short of going through the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office in the Office of Federal Acknowledgment, the Lumbee Tribe of North ...

Republican lawmakers have never been fans of Obamacare. Still, it’s hard to understand why so few of them have been openly supportive of extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to ...