Longtime Illinois Democrats Dick Durbin and Jan Schakowsky are retiring, paving the way for younger lawmakers to step in and ...

Governing an extremely complex state such as California is a daunting task, as any past governor could attest, not a ...

The retiring Sen. Richard J. Durbin became a leading voice on immigration and criminal justice during his time on the ...

The decision by Durbin, the Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, to retire opens the door for a more liberal replacement like ...

Members of the Society for Experienced Necrocracy In the Legislature and Executive (SENILE) have launched a posthumous 2026 gubernatorial campaign for former Sen. Dianne Feinstein ’55.

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California's future governor will have to deal with its housing shortage, homelessness, poverty, uncertain water supply, and ...

He served on Judiciary for more than two decades and got a chance to be chairman in 2021, after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California stepped aside amid calls for a more aggressive or ...

In a country bitterly divided on virtually everything, from the major to the mundane, there’s one issue that could unite ...

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois announced on Wednesday he will not be seeking reelection next year. Durbin, who is 80, has spent more than half of his life serving first in the House and ...

The judge who ruled that the Trump administration can't defund sanctuary cities and counties reportedly has deep ties to the Democrat Party.

Whitehouse garners more support from the progressive wing, which called for him to be installed as chairman rather than Durbin in 2021 after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein was effectively blocked ...