President Donald Trump frequently brings up prison reform at his Make America Great Again rallies. The question is, will Trump embrace reform of federal mandatory minimum sentencing?
Debra J. Saunders
White House correspondent
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
It was supposed to be a discussion between President Donald Trump, rapper Kanye West and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown on urban policy, job creation and criminal justice issues. Instead it devolved into a rambling monologue about the rapper’s life, race and politics and a push for Trump to commute the sentence of a convicted murderer and gang leader.
The midterm elections are weeks away but already progressive activists are calling for Democrats to impeach newly installed Justice Brett Kavanaugh if they take the House in November.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley stunned Washington Tuesday morning as she announced her resignation during an appearance with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
New Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh returned to the White House Monday for a ceremonial swearing-in two days after he officially became a member of the high court.
President Donald Trump delivered on a key 2016 campaign promise last week when he announced that he had brokered a trade deal with Mexico and Canada to replace the 24-year-old NAFTA, which he called the “worst trade deal ever.”
It’s journalists who, in their zeal to prove Kavanaugh is too partisan and unable to control himself, come across as too partisan and unable to control themselves.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered a blistering attack on China Thursday, elaborating on President Donald Trump’s charge last week that Beijing is trying to influence the U.S. midterm elections.
A sex crimes prosecutor brought in to question the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three decades ago said she did not believe a “reasonable prosecutor” would go forward with this case as it did not meet a “preponderance of the evidence standard.”
President Donald Trump sent his “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 dead “exactly one year ago today.”
President Donald Trump hailed a new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico on Monday as a return of the United States to a “manufacturing powerhouse.”
Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in 1982 when they were high school students, came across as genuine and believable as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.
The Department of Justice is proposing to ban bump stocks — devices that accelerate the rate of fire of semi-automatic rifles — by classifying them as machine guns, the Review-Journal has learned.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would “certainly prefer not” to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and that he may delay a highly anticipated meeting with the Justice Department’s No. 2 official.
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that China has been trying to interfere in America’s midterm elections scheduled for November.
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