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Rep. Kevin McCarthy leaves a House Republican Conference meeting at the US Capitol on Dec. 5, 2023. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Ex-Speaker McCarthy’s departure from Congress reads like Greek tragedy – but stars a ‘slight unmeritable man’ and not a hero

Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University - Newark

Kevin McCarthy, the only speaker of the House to be ousted, has quit Congress. The ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as Shakespeare, understood the price of ambition like McCarthy’s: humiliation.
Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife arrive at the U.S. District Court in New York City on Sept. 27, 2023. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Feinstein’s death raises the question: How are vacant Senate seats filled?

Gibbs Knotts, College of Charleston

California’s governor has already announced his pick for the the seat, Laphonza Butler. Here’s more on the state-by-state process for replacing a senator who has died, is facing criminal charges or has serious illness.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File

Menendez indictment looks bad, but there are defenses he can make

Stanley M. Brand, Penn State

The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez is full of lurid details – hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed into clothes among them. Will they tank Menendez’s career?

Related Topics

  1. Criminal law
  2. Democrats
  3. Dianne Feinstein
  4. Julius Caesar
  5. Kevin McCarthy
  6. Republicans
  7. State legislatures
  8. US House of Representatives
  9. US Senate

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