Trump was holding rallies in Vandalia and Swanton, Ohio, on Monday. He said the nation was mourning the death of the 87-year-old Ginsburg and he pointed out that more than 200 judges have been appointed to the federal bench during his term. “Some presidents never get any — they last...
But at 40, he would be one of the youngest vice presidents in U.S. history as well as one of the least experienced in government. Lead Art: Vice President-elect JD Vance exits a meeting with former Rep. Matt Gaetz and other senators at the Capitol in Washington, on Nov. 20, 2024....
For now, the Republican-led Senate is not expected to hold a trial and vote on whether to convict Trump before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president Jan. 20. Still, Democrats feel that action by the House would send an important message to the country. A look at what will happen...
Presidents who lose re-election are entitled to try again later in life. Those eight years in power could be pretty far apart if the same person doesn’t stay in office for more than those two terms. There have been many attempts to be re-elected later, but only one was successful. ...
Term: 1837-1841, Party: Democrat Universal History Archive/Getty Images Martin Van Buren has the distinction of being the first U.S. president to be born an American citizen. All presidents before him had been born in colonial America, subjects of the British Crown. Van Buren’s one-term ...
There’s even some ideological diversity among the ranks of the MAGA loyalists Trump has appointed to carry out his agenda: Gabbard was an elected Democrat before she left the party and ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, first r...
In the Senate in 2007, Obama voted along Democratic Party lines 97 percent of the time, about 10 percent more than the average for all Democratic senators [source: The Hill]. Of the leading Democrat candidates, he's missed the most votes during the 109th Congress. Obama missed 282 of the...
In 1884, Cleveland, a Democrat, overcame a sex scandal to defeat Republican nominee James Blaine in a narrow victory. Cleveland admitted that he may have fathered a child with Maria Halpin out of wedlock in 1874, but claimed it “certainly shouldn’t preclude him from serving as president.”...
But Trump's argument that heenjoyed absolute immunityfrom prosecution quickly tied up the case in appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in July thatformer presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, and sent the case back to the tria...
Still, there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution, particularly the 12th Amendment, that prevents a Republican from choosing a Democratic running mate or a Democrat from choosing a Green Party politician as her vice presidential candidate. In fact, one of the nation's modern-day presidential nomi...