Trump's presidential pen could remake Supreme Court's agenda and other top stories.

• Trump's presidential pen could remake Supreme Court's agenda

  

  For starters, President Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, can go back to his day job. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) The political earthquake that hit Tuesday night has enormous consequences for the Supreme Court, swallowing up Judge Merrick Garland’s ill-fated nomination and dismantling Democratic hopes for a liberal majority on the high court for the first time in nearly a half-century. In the short term, Republican Donald Trump’s victory means that at some point next year, the ..

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• GOP keeps legislative grip; Democrats get another try soon?

  

  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The North Carolina General Assembly will begin in January with Republicans still firmly in charge. Whether the GOP’s veto-proof majorities retained on Election Day remain intact for the entire two-year session could depend on the courts.Democrats and their allies spent millions this fall trying to gain four seats in the House or five seats in the Senate. That would have given new leverage to Democratic legislators or should Roy Cooper be elected governor. But Democrats only ..

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• No one has a clue what kind of president Donald Trump will be

  

  The battle for Donald Trump’s presidency is underway, and there’s nothing orderly about it. Washington is rife with rumor, speculation and trepidation. The rest of the country is in the dark and divided. Trump always said he liked to be unpredictable, and so it is left to others right now to imagine how all the conflicts, contradictions and questions will be resolved. Two signs of the absence of clarity came Friday when Trump reshuffled the leadership of his transition team, jettisoning New Jer..

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• Trump relies on Washington insiders to build administration

  

  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump elicited wild cheers on the campaign trail by pledging to “drain the swamp” in Washington, but the president-elect’s transition team is populated largely with creatures of the capital, including former federal bureaucrats, think-tank academics, corporate lawyers and special-interest lobbyists. An internal organizational chart for the Trump transition team lists more than 30 names, some well-known within the GOP establishment. They are tasked with helping to select and ..

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• Kellyanne Conway: It's up to Clinton, Obama to calm anti-Trump protesters

  

  Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, arrives to Trump Tower on Nov. 12, in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images) Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, said it was incumbent upon Hillary Clinton, President Obama and other Democratic leaders to calm their supporters and encourage a peaceful transition of power after anti-Trump demonstrations have swept U.S. cities since Election Day. "(Trump is) there for them. And he is going to be a president tha..

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• Hillary Clinton Partially Blames Loss on FBI Director James Comey's Email Inquiry

  

  The FBI's surprise decision to re-examine Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server before voters went to the polls cost her the election, the "heartbroken" Democratic nominee said Saturday, a source told NBC News. The letter about the email inquiry — sent from FBI Director James Comey to Congress 11 days before the vote — raised doubts that helped to stop the campaign's momentum at a critical time, Clinton said in a farewell conference call with donors. A source who was on the call, w..

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• Ryan says he and Trump 'not planning' mass deportations

  

  “We’re not focused on, we are not planning on erecting a deportation force,” Paul Ryan said, adding: “Donald Trump’s not planning on that.” | Getty Ryan says he and Trump 'not planning' mass deportations By Rachael Bade 11/13/16 10:55 AM EST House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday that he and President-elect Donald Trump are "not planning" to pursue mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, despite Trump's vow to the contrary during..

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• Rep. Keith Ellison, a top candidate to lead DNC, suggests 'vision' more important than full-time chairman

  

  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who has emerged as a leading candidate for the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sidestepped a question Sunday about whether he would be willing to give up his post in Congress to better serve the party. While support for Ellison has been building among liberal lawmakers and advocacy groups, several in the party — including former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who is seeking to..

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• Weekend brings more anti-Trump protests across nation

  

  From New York to Los Angeles, demonstrators have marched in various American cities for four nights since Trump's unexpected victory Tuesday capped an acrimonious campaign. While largely peaceful, the protests have resulted in blocked highways and bridges, arrests during clashes with police and the early Saturday shooting of a man at a march in Portland, Oregon.In Cincinnati, anti-Trump demonstrators were joined by hundreds of people protesting a hung jury in the murder trial of a former Unive..

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