North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, discussing the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's claim that states do not have authority to regulate the practices of national banks.
Stephen Webber, chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party, after Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal posted -- and then quickly deleted -- a Facebook comment that said "I hope Trump is assassinated!” Her comment came in the wake of the president's remarks about the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va. As of Friday afternoon, she refused to resign.
Tennessee state Rep. Micah Van Huss, a Republican who took to Facebook after the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va., to "let my constituents know where I stand." The Confederate flag, he wrote, is "a symbol of freedom."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, criticizing President Trump's remarks on Tuesday about the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va. Trump placed blame for the violence on both sides, suggested that creating more jobs will eliminate racism and defended white supremacists' cause against the removal of Confederate monuments.
Texas state Rep. Chris Turner, a Democrat, speaking in opposition of a bill that will require women to pay an extra health insurance premium for nonemergency abortions. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation on Tuesday.
De'Andre Harris, on being chased and beat with wooden poles by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Harris, who was there to counterprotest the neo-Nazi groups, said a police officer finally came to his aid after five or six minutes. The city's police is under fire for
Tiana Nobile, who initially wasn't allowed to get married because she had her citizenship paperwork, passport and driver’s license but no birth certificate. A Louisiana judge, however, recently struck down a state law requiring birth certificates in order to issue a marriage license.