South Carolina’s Republican senator Lindsey Graham warned of retribution against Democrats amid Donald Trump’s ongoing criminal cases. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, Graham, a staunch Trump ally, said without evidence, “The Democrats keep calling president Trump a felon. Well, be careful what you wish for. I expect there will be an […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was sharply criticized on social media Tuesday after he twisted reality on Fox News. “The next time you hear the word felon in this election, I think the felon in this election is Joe Biden,” the devoted Donald Trump ally told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “What he’s doing to the country […]
Last October, amid a series of ethics controversies plaguing the high court, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett conceded that it’d be a “good idea” for the institution to adopt an ethics code. Justice Elena Kagan made similar comments a month earlier. The good news for reformers was that the Supreme Court announced in November […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, plans to block an effort by Senate Democrats to unanimously pass a Supreme Court ethics bill Wednesday on the Senate floor. “I will object,” Graham told NBC News. The South Carolina senator’s comments come after Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who chairs the […]
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reinstated the murder convictions of Lindsey Lowe, the Hendersonville woman accused of killing her twin newborns after secretly giving birth in the bathroom of her parents’ home. The court reversed the decision by a Sumner County judge in 2022 to grant her a new trial because of […]
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday defended President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, from federal charges relating to a gun purchase in 2018. The younger Biden is standing trial in Delaware this week for illegally purchasing and possessing a gun while abusing or being addicted […]
After The New York Times reported that the American flag outside Justice Samuel Alito’s home was flown upside down in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham criticized the conservative judge for failing to “think it through.” “Emotions are apparently high in that neighborhood but no, it’s not good judgment to do that,” Graham told […]
Sens. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday that they will accept the results of the 2024 presidential election provided it’s a fair contest – a commitment that several other top Republicans have refused to make. Vance said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he plans to accept the results in 2024, […]
Robert Lindsey, a longtime Lexington radio executive who made a midlife career switch to become a small business owner, died Wednesday at age 66. He had battled cancer, an obituary on Milward Funeral Directors’ website stated. “Our hearts are heavy with the loss of a radio giant, former Cumulus Media Operations Manager Robert Lindsey,” a […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday questioned senior defense leadership about the United States pausing the shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel — and he appeared to make a comparison to World War II while doing so. “Would you have supported dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … to end World War II? […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that the FBI was in possession of his phone after he received a message from someone impersonating Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I get a message, I think, from Schumer,” Graham, R-S.C., said during a panel discussion about artificial intelligence regulations at The Hill and Valley Forum. “It […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has again turned negative after the South Carolina senator criticized the former president for refusing to support a federal abortion ban. Trump repeatedly disparaged Graham on his social media site and said he regretted endorsing the senator during his […]