Tag Archives: Government appointments and nominations

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, who left the GOP in 2019 after calling for the impeachment of then-President Donald Trump, announced a Republican bid for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat Thursday. Amash represented Grand Rapids from 2011 to 2021, and he becomes the third former U.S. representative to join the Republican field vying for Michigan’s open Senate …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over the state’s challenge to a lower court ruling that would allow a man to run for one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats as a Republican, even though the state GOP doesn’t back his candidacy. A state law says a candidate’s past two primary ballots must be cast with …