Tag: Doug Jones
Ketanji Brown Jackson pledges to decide cases ‘without fear or favor’
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson pledged Monday to decide cases “without fear or favor” if the Senate confirms her historic nomination...
Joe Biden to name judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the...
Joe Biden’s attorney general search is focused on Doug Jones, Merrick...
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated as President-elect Joe Biden’s...
Parties’ late spending on Senate races shows GOP’s jeopardy
Republicans and Democrats are unleashing millions in eleventh-hour spending to contest Senate seats in states that read like a list of reliable GOP strongholds:...
Arizona tallies 311 new COVID-19 cases, no additional deaths
The Arizona Department of Health Services said the new cases increased the state’s total to 198,414 while the death toll remained at 4,771.
Democrats claim ‘big tent’ for first convention in pandemic
The extraordinary ideological range of Biden's many messengers on the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention was perhaps best demonstrated by former presidential contenders from opposing parties.
Arizona sees new highs in COVID-19 ventilator, ICU bed use
The state Department of Health Services said 671 COVID-19 patients were on ventilators and 936 were in intensive care as of Sunday.
Virus, stalled economy raise Democratic hopes to take Senate
Democrats have rising hopes of gaining the minimum three seats they’ll need to capture a majority.
Switching remaining primaries to vote-by-mail not so easy
In many states, such a change would likely require amending state law.
Some Democrats fear fallout from Bernie Sanders atop the ticket
Democrats are worried that Sanders' socialist label and unyielding embrace of controversial proposals such as medicare for all will repel voters.
