Obama’s Legislative Director: A Latino No One Knows, Yet
By Philip Rucker, Washington Post Miguel Rodriguez is President Obama’s new director of legislative affairs. That makes him the president’s Congress whisperer and arm-twister, tasked with convincing Republican lawmakers of the virtues […]
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Arizona Immigration Law
By Jacques Billeaud and Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press/TIME The Supreme Court will consider the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents […]
Carmona Won’t Run for Arizona Governor in 2014
By Sean Sullivan, Washington Post Richard Carmona, the former surgeon general who lost a close Senate race in 2012, won’t be running for governor next year, the Democrat has announced. “I’m […]
The RNC’s Tom Perez Problem
By Brian Beutler, Talking Points Memo The two biggest political stories of the day — the RNC’s release of its reaction to the party’s 2012 drubbing, and Tom Perez’s nomination […]