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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens at left as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, objects to advancing the nomination of Bill Barr to be attorney general, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lindsey Graham: Blue slips won’t derail Trump appeals court picks

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he will honor the Senate's "blue slip" tradition for district court judges but not for appeals court nominees, giving Democrats a limited veto over President Trump's judicial picks.

February 7, 2019
Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, wipes his brow after making an announcement of an indictment of Chinese telecommunications companies including Huawei, on violations including bank and wire fraud, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Dems vote to approve subpoena for Trump AG Matthew Whitaker

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker says he's ready to testify Friday to the House Judiciary Committee -- but the panel's Democrats approved a subpoena anyway on Thursday, saying they wanted to put him on record that he could be punished if he doesn't answer all their questions.

February 7, 2019
In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo, U.S. Army troops place additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz. (Jonathan Clark/Nogales International via AP) ** FILE **

Nogales, Arizona demands feds remove border fence barbed wire

A small border town in Arizona declared a public relations war on the Trump administration Wednesday, demanding the feds cut down miles of razor wire that have been attached to the border wall in recent weeks to try to increase security ahead of the migrant caravans.

February 6, 2019
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at a news conference to discuss Paid Family Leave legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Senate approves bill to rein in anti-Israel boycotts

Senators approved legislation Tuesday to protect states and localities that refuse to do business with organizations that boycott Israel, in a vote that served as a reminder of the close ties between the Middle East nation and America's elected officials.

February 5, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Feds: No impact from foreign meddling in 2018 election

Foreign governments did not sway the 2018 elections, the Justice and Homeland Security departments announced Tuesday, saying the vote came off without any evidence of the kinds of breaches that tainted the 2016 presidential vote.

February 5, 2019
The Federation for American Immigration Reform calculated that one out of every 35 illegal immigrants in Arizona was in state prison or jail in 2016, the highest rate of any of the states its researchers studied. Other studies came to different conclusions. (Associated Press)

Study finds high rates of prison, jail for illegals

Nearly 3 percent of illegal immigrants in Arizona end up in state prison or jail during the course of a year -- four times the rate of U.S. citizens and legal residents, according to a study that uses federal reimbursements for prisons and jails to try to calculate one of the most important yet elusive statistics in the immigration debate.

February 5, 2019