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WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says she regrets sending texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election, telling the House Jan. 6 committee that “I would take them all back if I could today.” Thomas — known as Ginni — is a longtime conservative activist. In a transcript of the interview released by the panel on Friday, she told investigators she was “emotional” after the election when she sent several texts to Meadows urging him to stand firm with then-President Donald Trump as he falsely claimed that there was widespread fraud in the election. In the texts, she bemoaned the state of American politics and called the election a “heist.” Thomas told the panel she still feels there were election irregularities, but she does believe that Joe Biden is the president of the United States. “You know, it was an emotional time,” Thomas told the committee. “I’m sorry these texts exist.” The … [Read more...] about Ginni Thomas says she regrets post-election texts to Meadows

It was one of the most controversial terms in Supreme Court history, with the shocking leak of a draft opinion that eventually overturned a half century of abortion rights, public polls that showed record disapproval of the court's work and biting dissension among the justices themselves about the court's legitimacy. But Chief Justice John Roberts chose not to address those or any other controversies in his annual "Year-end Report on the Federal Judiciary," issued Saturday. Instead, he focused on a high mark of the judiciary's past - a federal district judge's efforts to implement school desegregation at Little Rock's Central High School after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. "The law requires every judge to swear an oath to perform his or her work without fear or favor, but we must support judges by ensuring their safety," Roberts wrote in his nine-page report. "A judicial system cannot and should not live in fear. The events of Little … [Read more...] about Chief justice ignores controversial Supreme Court term in annual report

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she is running for U.S. Senate in 2024, amid uncertainty over whether Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will seek a sixth full term that year. In an email to her supporters, as well as a video posted to her social media accounts, Porter touted her background as a minivan-driving single mom of three better known for her use of a whiteboard in the House than for being a "career politician." "I'm running for the U.S. Senate because Californians deserve a warrior fighting for them in Washington," Porter, 49, wrote. "In the House, I've stood up to leaders of both parties - as both the only Democrat to oppose earmarks and as one of just a dozen Members of Congress to reject lobbyist and corporate PAC money." Feinstein, 89, last year filed initial paperwork to run for reelection in 2024 but has not explicitly said whether she will seek another term. California's other senator, Democrat Alex Padilla, 49, won his first full term in November … [Read more...] about Rep. Katie Porter announces run for U.S. Senate in California