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☆ Kari Lake’s Claims of Election Misconduct Rejected by Arizona Judge
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kari Lake previously had submitted other claims related to the election outcome, but those were also dismissed. An Arizona judge rejected the remainder of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake ‘s claims of election misconduct, saying she failed to prove the allegations that ballots weren’t counted correctly and mishandled in the state’s most populous county. Every witness brought before the court “was asked about any personal knowledge of both intentional misconduct and intentional misconduct directed to impact the 2022 General Election. Every single witness before the Court disclaimed any personal knowledge of such misconduct,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson wrote in the ruling. Mr. Thompson was appointed to the bench by former GOP Gov.

☆ Presidential Vote Counting to Get Revamp After Trump Tried to Reverse 2020 Loss
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Eliza Collins | Lindsay Wise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—For the first time in more than a century, Congress is poised to pass legislation that would revamp the process of certifying presidential electors, a direct response to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 election results. The Electoral Count Reform Act has been attached to a $1.65 trillion yearlong spending package currently moving through Congress that is expected to be passed this week. The ECRA is the result of nearly a year of bipartisan Senate negotiations to update an 1887 law that came into focus during the certification of the presidential results on Jan. 6, 2021.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer brought up two rival amendments related to preserving the Title 42 immigration rule. WASHINGTON—Senators closed in on passing a $1.65 trillion spending bill just ahead of the Christmas holiday and a looming winter storm, after breaking an impasse related to immigration policy. In a compromise, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) brought up two rival amendments related to preserving the Title 42 immigration rule, after Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) insisted on a vote for his bill as a condition for moving ahead. Both the Lee amendment and one from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I., Ariz.) and Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked lawmakers to stay close to the Senate floor so that they could vote quickly. WASHINGTON—Senators broke an immigration-related impasse Thursday morning, reaching a deal on amendments that clears the way to pass a $1.65 trillion spending bill just ahead of the Christmas holiday and a looming winter storm. “We will vote on all of the amendments in order and then vote on final passage,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said on the Senate floor Thursday. Mr. Schumer said that an immigration amendment from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I., Ariz.) and Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.) would be added to the list of amendment votes ahead of final passage, alongside one by Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) that had frozen Senate business as Senate Democrats scrambled to keep it from passing.

WASHINGTON—Senators passed a $1.65 trillion spending bill just ahead of the Christmas holiday and a gathering winter storm, after breaking an impasse related to immigration policy and racing through more than a dozen amendments. The bipartisan bill passed in a 68-29 vote. It includes $858 billion in military spending, $45 billion more than President Biden had requested and up about 10% from $782 billion the prior year. It also includes $772.5 billion in nondefense discretionary spending, up almost 6% from $730 billion the prior year. The overall discretionary price tag works out to about $1.65 trillion, compared with $1.5 trillion the prior fiscal year.

☆ Kari Lake Gets Hearing on Claims of Arizona Election Misconduct
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Eliza Collins | Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Defeated Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is scheduled to receive a two-day court hearing beginning Wednesday to air some of her allegations that electoral improprieties caused her to lose the race, but a judge said she’ll have to prove there was intentional misconduct that affected the outcome. An Arizona judge on Monday dismissed most of Ms. Lake’s claims that illegal voting and misconduct cost her a victory, saying they weren’t proper or valid. But Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson said Ms. Lake should be given the opportunity to attempt to prove a pair of claims related to the malfunctioning of ballot printers and the handling of ballots.

☆ Kyrsten Sinema Files Paperwork for 2024 Senate Candidacy as Independent
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ House Passes Bill to Set Up Puerto Rico Vote on Statehood, Independence or Sovereignty
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Eliza Collins | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—The House passed legislation Thursday that would allow Puerto Ricans to vote on three options for their future: independence, to become the 51st state or a third approach called sovereignty in free association with the U.S. The legislation passed 233-191, with Democrats joined by some Republicans, and now moves to the Senate. It isn’t known if it will be brought up for a vote in the Senate, which has limited time before breaking for the holidays and a new term beginning next month. The bill would need significant bipartisan support in the evenly divided Senate, where 60 votes are required to advance the legislation. The Biden administration said Thursday it supports the bill.

☆ Some Republicans Aim to Postpone Spending Deal as House Plans Vote on One-Week Plan
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Siobhan Hughes | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The full-year omnibus measure congressional negotiators are working on is shaping up to total around $1.7 trillion. WASHINGTON—The House was expected to vote as early as later Wednesday on a one-week government funding measure to give congressional negotiators time to complete and pass a full-year omnibus spending bill, while some Republicans urged postponing any deal until next year, when the GOP will take control of the House. The vote on a one-week continuing resolution, which keeps the government funded at fiscal 2022 spending levels, follows the late Tuesday announcement that Democratic and Republican negotiators had reached agreement on a framework and would turn to completing the details.

☆ Kyrsten Sinema Complicates Democrats’ Defense of Senate Majority in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has yet to say whether she will run for re-election. WASHINGTON—Centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s decision to register as an independent has dealt Democrats an election wild-card headed into the 2024 contests, with the party already facing an unfavorable map as it tries to hang onto its narrow majority. Arizona is viewed as one of the key contests in the next cycle, when the Democratic caucus is expected to defend 23 seats, compared with 11 for Republicans. Ms. Sinema had been seen as facing a difficult primary if she ran again as a Democrat, but becoming an independent removes that hurdle.

☆ Senate Passes Bill Banning TikTok From Government Devices
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Meghan Bobrowsky | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TikTok’s owner, Beijing-based ByteDance, has been the focus of national-security concerns in the U.S.WASHINGTON—The Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill that would ban federal employees from downloading or using the social-media app TikTok on government devices, in the face of mounting national-security concerns. The legislation would still have to pass the House and be signed by the president to become law. A similar bill passed the Senate in a previous Congress but never moved forward in the House.

☆ Kari Lake Files Lawsuit to Be Declared Winner in Arizona
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kari Lake is calling for an audit of Arizona’s election results for this year. Kari Lake, the Republican who lost her bid to be Arizona’s governor last month, filed a lawsuit alleging that the results of the midterm elections are false and she should be declared the winner. Katie Hobbs , the current Democratic secretary of state, defeated Ms. Lake by just over 17,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point. State officials including the Republican governor certified the election results Monday. Ms. Hobbs in her role as secretary of state oversaw certification but had no role in vote counting.

☆ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Leaves Democratic Party
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Sen. Kyrtsen Sinema has sometimes forced changes to major Democratic Party policies and had faced regular criticism from Democratic activists. WASHINGTON—Centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she was leaving the Democratic Party and would register as an independent, a move that complicates Democrats’ narrow control of the U.S. Senate. ”I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington,” she wrote in an opinion article in the Arizona Republic. “I registered as an Arizona independent.”

☆ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Leaves Democratic Party to Become Independent
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Eliza Collins | Katy Stech Ferek | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she was leaving the Democratic Party and would register as an independent, a move that complicates Democrats’ narrow control of the chamber. “I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington,” she wrote in an opinion article in the Arizona Republic. “I registered as an Arizona independent.”

☆ Kyrsten Sinema Switches to Independent, Complicates Democratic Control of Senate
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Eliza Collins | Lindsay Wise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, a pivotal centrist who has helped broker bipartisan deals and forced changes to major pieces of President Biden’s agenda, said she was leaving the Democratic Party and would register as an independent, a move that complicates Democrats’ narrow control of the chamber. The move sent a jolt through Washington just days after Democrats secured their 51st seat in the chamber by winning a runoff election in Georgia and raised questions about how closely she would align with the party. It also highlighted uncertainties about Democratic prospects for holding the Senate in 2024 if Ms. Sinema runs for reelection in her highly competitive home state.

☆ Allies of Kevin McCarthy Implore GOP Holdouts to Back Him for Speaker
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Natalie Andrews | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—House Republicans across the ideological spectrum implored some conservative members to drop their efforts to tank GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid for speaker, warning that Democrats could end up selecting the next speaker if the party didn’t unify behind him. In a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning, lawmakers lined up to voice support for the California Republican. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, an outspoken populist ally of former President Donald Trump, enthusiastically backed Mr. McCarthy’s bid, as did Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who occasionally crosses party lines and has regularly sparred with Mrs. Greene.

☆ Arizona Certifies Election Results, Makes Katie Hobbs’s Win Over Kari Lake Official
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Holdout Arizona County Certifies Midterms Results After Court Order
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cochise County, Ariz., elections officials voted Thursday to certify the results of the midterm elections following a court order, ending a gambit that had left the fate of tens of thousands of votes in the state uncertain. The county’s three-member board of supervisors voted 2-0 in favor of certification, shortly after an Arizona judge ordered them to certify the results immediately. One Republican member of the board didn’t participate in the vote.

☆ House Democrats Set to Pick Hakeem Jeffries to Lead Party
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Eliza Collins | Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries promised a leadership style that empowers rank-and-file Democrats, focuses on winning back the majority in 2024 and contrasts with the GOP. WASHINGTON—Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is expected to be chosen to lead House Democrats in the next Congress, making the New Yorker the first Black person to lead a major political party and marking a generational shift following the departure of three longtime chiefs. Democrats will vote on their new leadership Wednesday, ending two decades under Nancy Pelosi of California, who was both speaker and minority leader during that period. She is stepping aside as Republicans prepare to take the majority in the new year following wins in the midterm elections.

☆ House Democrats Pick Hakeem Jeffries to Lead Party
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Eliza Collins | Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Rep. Hakeem Jeffries was chosen to lead House Democrats next year, making the New Yorker the first Black person to lead a major political party in Congress and marking a generational shift following the departure of three longtime chiefs. Democrats for the incoming 118th Congress voted on their new leadership Wednesday, ending two decades under Nancy Pelosi of California, who was both speaker and minority leader during that period. She is stepping aside as Republicans prepare to take the majority in the new year following wins in the midterm elections.

☆ Hakeem Jeffries Elected to Lead House Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Eliza Collins | Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Arizona County Postpones Certifying Election Results, Setting Up Legal Fight
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Eliza Collins | Alicia A. Caldwell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Republican county officials in one Arizona county pushed back certification of the state’s election results that saw a slate of Trump-backed candidates fall in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, setting up a likely legal fight with the state’s secretary of state. Cochise County voted Monday to ignore the state’s deadline and delay its certification of the midterm election results. Secretary of State Kate Hobbs , a Democrat who won the gubernatorial race against Republican Kari Lake , is expected to file a lawsuit against any county that doesn’t certify, further injecting uncertainty into the state’s ability to move on from Election Day.

☆ GOP Rep. David Valadao, Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Wins Re-Election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Lindsay Wise | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California Rep. David Valadao is hanging onto his seat in a swing district that runs from Fresno to Bakersfield. California Rep. David Valadao won re-election on Monday, meaning two of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump over his role in the Capitol riot will return to Congress next year. Mr. Valadao defeated Democratic State Assemblyman Rudy Salas, the Associated Press projected late Monday, hanging onto his seat in a swing district that runs from Fresno to Bakersfield. With 98% of the vote counted, Mr. Valadao had 51.7% to 48.3% for Mr. Salas.

☆ House Control Undecided with Republicans One Seat Shy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Control of the House of Representatives remained uncalled more than a week after Election Day, even as Republicans continued to be on track to take a narrow majority. The GOP closed in on control of the House after scoring several wins in competitive races in recent days. On Wednesday morning, the party was one seat away from the 218 needed for a majority in the 435-seat chamber, putting it on course for a razor-thin margin with just a handful of midterm contests to be called.

☆ Kevin McCarthy Faces First Test in Speakership Bid
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Natalie Andrews | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—House Republicans will choose their leaders for the new Congress on Tuesday, in a vote that could reveal how much resistance Kevin McCarthy faces within his own conference. Mr. McCarthy, the current House Minority Leader, is running to lead his party again in what analysts believe will be the narrowest GOP majority in recent history, and much slimmer than Republican leaders had initially hoped for. Republicans moved forward with selecting a speaker candidate despite the House majority not yet being called by the Associated Press.

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