Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona filed a ...

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Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., asked attendees at a campaign event Saturday to show government-issued photo ID, even while opposing similar standards for voters in federal elections. Email confirmation ...

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell. (Photo by Jan McCullough) Former Maine U.S. Sen. George Mitchell has resigned as honorary chair of the Mitchell Institute, the organization announced Thursday. The ...

WASHINGTON — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on Tuesday became the first Republican senator to speak out against the SAVE Act, a sweeping election bill backed by President Donald Trump that would require ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday temporarily blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to formally censure and demote Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain, for ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is facing heated backlash from conservatives after attending the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 1. Devine called Jackson, a Harvard Law School alumnus ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was discharged from the hospital Tuesday after a weeklong stay and is "working from home," his spokesperson said Wednesday. "Senator McConnell was discharged from the ...

A federal judge has sided with Sen. Mark Kelly to stop Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from punishing the former Navy captain for advising troops not to follow illegal orders. U.S. District Judge ...

Alma White, whose 18-year-old autistic son Caleb is about to leave school, said young people with SEN were "being failed" Young people with special needs are being failed after Stormont ran out of ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell was discharged from the hospital Feb. 10, more than one week after he checked himself in, a spokesperson said in a Feb. 11 news release. "Senator McConnell was ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) blamed Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during a heated exchange in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental ...