U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said he will introduce a Constitutional amendment curbing the president’s ability to issue clemency.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut cast doubt Tuesday on nominee Pete Hegseth’s ability to run the Department of Defense, pointing to claims of financial mismanagement when President-elect Donald Trump’s pick ran a pair of veterans’ groups.
Adrian Peeler, whose drug sentence was commuted by President Biden before he left office, killed a Bridgeport woman and her 8-year-old son in 1999.
BRIDGEPORT — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said it appeared an oversight resulted in President Joe Biden giving clemency to a man convicted in the 1999 killings of a woman and her 8-year-old ...
With the nation watching, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal hit the “gotcha” button Tuesday. Blumenthal took a seven-minute-seventeen-second turn questioning Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth in a confirmation hearing before the U.S ...
I saw that Connecticut's own Sen. Richard Blumenthal named soon-to-be Secretary of Defense Hegseth a most unqualified candidate_ Well, let's get started. I certainly can't find one instance of him lying about his military service for personal gain,
The U.S. senator from Connecticut said presidents' "pardon and clemency power has operated in the shadows," and the time for reform had come.
Now that Donald Trump is president, there’s no appetite within the GOP for scrutinizing the myriad conflicts of interest in the White House.
Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget has refused to say Trump will follow the law that forbids him from blocking funds.
Former Georgia congressman Doug Collins told the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Tuesday he’ll reexamine whether the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should provide abortions. Collins, tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the VA,
Himes said he will continue to advocate for his constituents in Connecticut’s Fourth Congressional District, in the southwestern part of the state, even as he and other officials will act as a bulwark against Trump’s agenda.
In The Impeachment Power, Keith Whittington offers sound and convincing guidance for would-be practitioners of the impeachment clause.