#executive-branch

#executive-branch

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would decide whether individual members of Congress are entitled to sue a government agency for information about a Washington hotel once owned by former President Donald J. Trump.Days before Mr. Trump left office, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, all Democrats and making up less than a majority of the panel's members, had standing to sue for access to government documents concerning possible conflicts of interest at the Trump International Hotel.

The vote by a Manhattan grand jury to indict former President Donald J. Trump raises novel legal and political questions because he is running for the Republican nomination for president again.Any indictment or conviction would not bar Mr. Trump from running.A clean criminal record is not among the criteria the Constitution sets for who is eligible to be president.

The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would rescind a second Biden administration policy, this time challenging an EPA rule that Republicans argue places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive in defining what is a navigable waterway.The final vote was 53-43.The resolution, which cleared the House earlier this month, will now be sent to Biden's desk where he has already threatened to veto it.

In a stern rebuke of former Vice President Mike Pence, the conservative former judge who advised Pence on how to handle the January 6, 2021, election certification vote is now warning of both the legal and political consequences of Pence's plan to fight the grand jury subpoena by special counsel Jack Smith.