Category: Politics
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Trump told the RNC midterm convention in Dallas that the war with Iran will end immediately after the November elections. The prediction is one claim; the timing is another, and it implies something other than the military situation is setting the schedule.
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John E. Sununu won the Republican Senate nomination in New Hampshire and Chris Pappas the Democratic one, setting up an open contest in November after Jeanne Shaheen declined a fourth term. Why a state of 1.5 million draws national attention.
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Britain banned imports from Israeli settlements, with France, Canada and nine other states acting alongside it. Israel responded within hours by closing Britain’s East Jerusalem consulate, expelling diplomats and barring twelve British MPs from entry.
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Britain is preparing measures on Israeli settlements, centred on the E1 corridor east of Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign minister has warned of unspecified retaliation. What is likely to be in the package, what precedent suggests will be left out, and how to read a vague threat.
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Alternative für Deutschland took 43.8 per cent in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election, more than double the CDU’s share. Winning the most votes and being able to form a government are not the same thing, and the gap between them is where German politics now sits.
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Federal authorities want to check state voter rolls against federal citizenship records. Whether that removes ineligible registrations or eligible voters comes down to three procedural details, not to the stated purpose.
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The USDA is moving about half its Washington staff to regional hubs. It tried a smaller version of this in 2019, and most of the affected specialists resigned rather than move.
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Saxony-Anhalt is a vote away from a parliament where no government can be built on terms the rest of German politics accepts. The firewall is a commitment, not a law — and the arithmetic behind it is getting harder every election.
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The House passed a bill stripping federal funding from universities that take part in boycotts of Israel, 237 to 169, with 33 Democrats voting yes. The constitutional question splits between two Supreme Court cases that point in opposite directions.
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A Justice Department legal opinion says states that do not report undocumented residents could lose federal money for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income. The constitutional question it runs into is nearly forty years old.